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Unigine updates!
By Cheeseness, 2 August 2012 at 1:05 pm UTC
Neat!
New Valve Linux Blog Post Talks About Performance
By MyGameCompany, 2 August 2012 at 12:33 pm UTC
Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 5124, member: 122"This is pretty interesting stuff, as OpenGL often seems under appreciated on Windows. So far as I'm aware, Windows users aren't given an option to run the game in OpenGL, and it'll be interesting to see if Valve consider providing this to them (and us Wine users) in the future.


Considering Microsoft has announced that Windows 8/Metro will not support OpenGL, I rather suspect that Valve won't bother investing time in that option.
New Valve Linux Blog Post Talks About Performance
By Cheeseness, 2 August 2012 at 9:11 am UTC
Quoting: "Hamish, post: 5127, member: 6"For a modern large game developer that is pretty much par the course though.

Definitely. There's potential for people to think that the 300fps+ figure is achievable for normal systems though, so it's worth noting that the specs are above average.

Quoting: "Hamish, post: 5127, member: 6"Now that sounds to be counterintuitive.

It sounds like they're getting stuff bedded down in a 32 bit environment before delving into 64 bit (like the way they're using Ubuntu during development and then expanding to support other distros once they're through most of the iterative part of development).
New Valve Linux Blog Post Talks About Performance
By Hamish, 2 August 2012 at 3:04 am UTC
Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 5125, member: 122"It's probably worth noting that their test system specs are pretty extreme. I don't know anybody running 32GB of RAM ^_^


For a modern large game developer that is pretty much par the course though.

Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 5125, member: 122"Also, this is 32 bit Linux vs 64 but Windows.


Now that sounds to be counterintuitive.
Zombie Tux Spotted in L4D2 Update Announcement
By Cheeseness, 2 August 2012 at 12:46 am UTC
Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 5055, member: 122"I don't really bet, but if there were a time that I'd be guessing that one would show up, I think it'd be late August/September.


I suppose I was a bit conservative!
New Valve Linux Blog Post Talks About Performance
By Cheeseness, 2 August 2012 at 12:43 am UTC
It's probably worth noting that their test system specs are pretty extreme. I don't know anybody running 32GB of RAM ^_^

Also, this is 32 bit Linux vs 64 but Windows.
Zombie Tux Spotted in L4D2 Update Announcement
By Cheeseness, 1 August 2012 at 11:01 pm UTC
Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 5121, member: 1"The thing is for the games already on MAC would that not make them easier to port over to Linux?

Yes and no. It all depends upon the existing Mac (not an abbreviation :D ) implementations, and how mindful of potential issues they were when doing those ports.

The presence of dedicated servers indicates that most of the core gameplay code is ported already, and depending upon whether they want to actively revisit that stuff, I speculate the only significant remaining part would be the renderer.
Zombie Tux Spotted in L4D2 Update Announcement
By Liam Dawe, 1 August 2012 at 8:07 pm UTC
The thing is for the games already on MAC would that not make them easier to port over to Linux?
Kickstarter Indie Bundle
By Bumadar, 1 August 2012 at 4:54 pm UTC
yes confusing a bit
yes $20 you get all games
Zombie Tux Spotted in L4D2 Update Announcement
By Cheeseness, 1 August 2012 at 12:01 am UTC
Quoting: "Hamish, post: 5113, member: 6"I am assuming it will be like the Mac launch with Valve's full catalogue? Left 4 Dead 2 is just the test case?

Are you certain that the entire Valve catalogue was available at launch? This article by Joystiq suggests that only Portal was (and I know that TF2 didn't go live for MacOS until the second week of June).

Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 5109, member: 1"Oh man I want to know if one of the counter strikes are coming or not, need a good modern day FPS to play on Linux.


I reckon we'll see CS in some form (if CS:GO comes out after the Linux Steam client launch, I imagine there are good chances of it having a native client when it launches).

Valve subsequently ported all of their Source engine titles to MacOS except for HL:S (nothing pre-Source has been made available for MacOS so far as I'm aware.), so I reckon they'll do something similar for the Linux release. I suspect we can at least expect one title from all of their franchises (except Ricochet) to make an appearance eventually.
Defense Grid To Come To Linux Eventually
By Cheeseness, 31 July 2012 at 11:51 pm UTC
They seem on-target for making the first tier to me (halfway through with over half the funds they need). It's worth noting that the first tier is for an expansion - it's the last tier that is the sequel.
Kickstarter Indie Bundle
By whizse, 31 July 2012 at 9:17 pm UTC
Am I the only one who found the pledge levels a bit confusing? I'm not really sure at what level I get the complete version of all the games, $20?
Defense Grid To Come To Linux Eventually
By whizse, 31 July 2012 at 9:06 pm UTC
I must admit that I haven't heard of this title before, but it seems to be both well made and quite popular. I wonder why they seem to be almost struggling just to reach the first tier for a sequel?
Zombie Tux Spotted in L4D2 Update Announcement
By Hamish, 31 July 2012 at 5:59 pm UTC
I am assuming it will be like the Mac launch with Valve's full catalogue? Left 4 Dead 2 is just the test case?
Kickstarter Indie Bundle
By Bumadar, 31 July 2012 at 3:51 pm UTC
supported, but you guys need to work on the exposure, try sites like bluesnews and such ?
Tomes of Mephistopheles new alpha is out
By Brandon Smith, 31 July 2012 at 3:20 pm UTC
I love these conversations, please let the controversy continue!
Kickstarter Indie Bundle
By , 31 July 2012 at 1:52 pm UTC
Silversword 2 will get a linux client if the funding is successful.

Kind Regards
Mario J. Gaida
Zombie Tux Spotted in L4D2 Update Announcement
By Liam Dawe, 31 July 2012 at 1:31 pm UTC
Oh man I want to know if one of the counter strikes are coming or not, need a good modern day FPS to play on Linux.
Kickstarter Indie Bundle
By MaximB, 31 July 2012 at 7:23 am UTC
Great...the games I want to play on Linux (the RPG games in the bundle) , won't have a Linux client....perfect...
Kickstarter Indie Bundle
By , 30 July 2012 at 8:01 pm UTC
Sorry, but it doesnt look lik e a great deal, if brains can't be splasehd around - not interested :P
Kickstarter Indie Bundle
By Bumadar, 30 July 2012 at 7:53 pm UTC
very intresting use of kickstarter, of course ensign rock and a few of the others look very intresting too

will suport tommorow when logged on pc......... and i wanted to stop on kickstarter as i got to many running lol
hope it works out, it should, lots of value in the bundle
Kickstarter Castle Story
By Xpander, 30 July 2012 at 6:58 pm UTC
they have edited it then:)
it wasnt there before.
Defense Grid To Come To Linux Eventually
By Cheeseness, 30 July 2012 at 6:05 pm UTC
Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 5102, member: 93"I wanted to sponsor it (I know its still open) but never really felt sure about it, the 250k kickstarter goal but 1000k for the actual full game... maybe I am easily confused :)

It is a bit confusing at first! They have a long image showing how the stretch goals are broken up.

The $250k goal covers an expansion for the original Defense Grid game. Pledging will also get you a copy of Defense Grid as soon as you pledge (even if the kickstarter campaign doesn't make its $250k goal), any Defense Grid content that's funded via Kickstarter, and a copy of Defense Grid 2 (which will have a Linux version) regardless of whether they make the $1m target.

The idea is that $1m allows them to entirely fund development of DG2 themselves. If they don't make that, they're still going to make the game, but they'll need to do other stuff to raise the money, so it will take longer.
Defense Grid To Come To Linux Eventually
By Bumadar, 30 July 2012 at 5:42 pm UTC
I wanted to sponsor it (I know its still open) but never really felt sure about it, the 250k kickstarter goal but 1000k for the actual full game... maybe I am easily confused :)
Kickstarter Castle Story
By Bumadar, 30 July 2012 at 3:52 pm UTC
what I basicly do on a kickstarter page is a do a search for "linux", which gives:

Castle Story will be released for Windows & Mac (with possible Linux support once Unity4 is released).
Kickstarter Castle Story
By Xpander, 29 July 2012 at 9:22 pm UTC
pledged...seems cool
but i agree.. FAQ doesn't have enough detail
Kickstarter Castle Story
By Hamish, 29 July 2012 at 9:13 pm UTC
Indeed. Some firmer commitments please. Heaven knows Linux users have been burned enough.
Kickstarter Castle Story
By whizse, 29 July 2012 at 8:03 pm UTC
It looks cool, but game devs really really need to learn to state their intentions better. The FAQ is so loosely worded that it isn't even clear if they plan on actually releasing an OS X version, much less a Linux port.
Tomes of Mephistopheles new alpha is out
By Hamish, 29 July 2012 at 4:35 pm UTC
And will always target different niches - still, this might give them more incentive to look into getting Mods working on the Desura Linux client. It would be very useful for games such as Postal 2 and Amnesia (not that Frictional ever responded to my request for a Desura key... grumble) Still trying to get AWP working the way I want it to on the new Postal builds (although I have got ED working fine).

Sorry for going off topic though motorstep. Did not mean to distract people from Tomes. ;)
Tomes of Mephistopheles new alpha is out
By storma, 29 July 2012 at 8:55 am UTC
While I'm very excited about steam coming to linux, my preference, when I have a choice, will still be to buy from Desura as they were the first to support us.
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