It also happens that Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is free this weekend on steam. It's about 4.9GB big, so start preloading now if you want to join the stream tonight.

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Quoting: kyokeiFor some reason I can't join the GOL clan :(

Unfortunately clans sizes are limited to 30 people. There should be an GOL-beta or GOL-gamma clan around with some open slots still.

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NAIS, I still have this game as an actual disk with an physical manual (Which is actually pretty good and detailed).
May just have to buy it again on GOG just to get the linux edition.

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This was a very cool talk. I've not played any of their ports but for just two 2 people to pull this off is a great feat of talent.

Quoting: MaxPowerFor windows they distributed the build to all the computers available in the company while for the linux build they might not have or not on the same number of machines. They don't say but it could be one of the explanations why the make was so much longer.
Also 2 dev for 4 months, it does not sound very expensive to port the game to Linux.

Lastly it would have been nice to know why they decided to do the port.

I assume that the dev you are in contact with, is the first guy as he seems to enjoy Linux. The other one used Windows while doing the port to Opengl.

As I understand it they could not find any distributed (as in running the build on more then 1 computer) compiling system for linux which was stable enough to be used in production. So the 70 minutes (or 45 minutes with fast build) would have been solely on their 8 core i7 computers.
For a game this size that is still pretty fast. It's not workable for development, but still pretty fast.

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Quoting: Quote from minjWhat's with the UEFI requirement?

My theory on that is two fold.

• Only relative newer hardware has UEFI
  If the hardware still only has bios, it probably won't be powerfull enough to run steamOS


• It ensures that even DIY steamboxes have boot times < 15 seconds

Additionally it gives them less area to provide support on. Many linux problems arise from a simple faulty bios.

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Quoting: Quote from Half-ShotInteresting that they are using Gnome for a desktop manager. I personally prefer it but I do know that the 3.6< had issues with rendering games so I wonder if they made some adjustments to that. If I were valve i would have gone for lxde with a bit of eye candy thrown in so the desktop was functional but not the centrepiece.

Haven't tried SteamOS yet but i will do in the new year when i build a steam box.

funny that you mention that, since they did try lxde, as well as kde. According to the package log.
Gnome tools probably turned out to be best compatible with steam 

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I'm almost never logged on and have gotten this survey pretty much every 2-4 months like clockwork. Around the same time I would have gotten it if I was on that other software.

Maybe there's some account biased at work there?

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Quoting: Eithow can i play it when i downloaded the zip? i managed to unzip it, but nothing more.

Right click on the file named "SUPERHOT-LINUX.x86", click on "properties. Look for something called permissions. Check the box labeled execute.
After that just double click it.

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This 'game'/concept is great, really easy to get a hold of and just play instantly. But the name eeewww, sounds like the developers fetish or something.

Still, looking forward to more info about this game.

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I still <3 minecraft, play it way too much. But building something from scratch is just such a rush! I live sketching something and then seeing it become a reality.
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For those interested I'm hosting a public snapshot server for a couple of hours to try all the new shiny!
It's over at snapshot.mcservergroup.com
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