Links 22/1/2014: Games
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-01-22 10:25:13 UTC
- Modified: 2014-01-22 13:08:50 UTC
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One of the mobile realm's most fiendishly tricky games is coming to the desktop in just over a week. Rymdkapsel, the tower defense strategy title that's earned plaudits for its spartan simplicity and satisfying gameplay, was already promised for a January release on Steam and now its developer has pinpointed the date as January 30th. Two additional game modes, more monoliths, and more missions are promised, which should augment the game's rather brief playing time. The Steam release will let you download and play the game on Windows, OS X, and Linux.
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A new SteamOS 1.0 "Alchemist" Beta was made available on Monday night. This latest SteamOS beta has support for installing Valve's Debian-based Linux distribution on non-UEFI systems.
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Valve team is working on a new tool to facilitate game developers on Linux. VOGL is an OpenGL tracer/debugger which will be used to analyse OpenGL calls. VOGL was announced in the Steam Dev Days conference. The debugger is being developed on Linux natively. It will be an open source project.
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Whether or not you think games are important for Linux, the stone cold reality is that they significantly drive mainstream interest in any operating system. As I wrote in the feature for LXF179, Linux: the Future of Gaming, this was a lesson Gabe Newell learnt back in the early 1990s while working for Microsoft – and it changed the direction of his career.
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Interstellaria the 2d space SIM/RPG/Sandbox game has a new alpha trailer and wow this game looks fantastic, this is going to be a true must-have for sci-fi space fans. Some really nice artwork in this too, everything looks great, especially the ships blowing up and coming apart.
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Well now this is an odd combination, Heroes of a Broken Land combines an RPG/First Person Dungeon Crawling with a town management game with interesting results.
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A new development report is available for the open source RTS game 0 A.D. and it looks very promising, lots of work going into the next alpha folks!
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Have you ever wondered what it felt like to pilot the Millennium Falcon through the asteroid field in Empire Strikes Back; dodging asteroids and evading enemy fighters? Well Scavenger looks nothing like it Star Wars, but it does look like some good wireframe fun.
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