The Unity Scream Of NOPE! – Linux Game Cast 578 (Patreon)

Unity announces a revolutionary way to extract revenue from developers! Steam celebrates its birthday with memes, gamescope adds support for Reshade, HDR Steam Decks, and Starfield Linux optimizations.

Special thanks to Scott for taking the time to chat with us. Check out his development streams on Twitch.  

Note: No Pre-Pre SUPER Showzen this week. It was a full hour of troubleshooting our Jitsi server.

Show notes and podcast

Timestamps:00:00 Intro

01:14 Back massage 

UNITY SHENANIGANS

03:06 Oh hi Scott 

04:59 Unity pricing update

10:15 Unity telemetry 

12:37 Blocking Unity telemetry 

13:05 Unity employee threats 

14:03 Retroactive payments 

14:29 Lawsuits incoming? 

15:33 Next step for developers?

17:14 Rolling back changes

17:35 Is GODOT an option?

19:19 Unity Knowledgebase 

20:38 Bad business models 

23:21 Lighting money on fire 

24:15 iUnity incoming 

25:30 Blaming John Riccitiello 

24:54 The future of Unity 

STEAM NEWS

30:38 20 Years of Steam 

31:22 Identify the Valve meme

35:28 First time using Steam  

36:54 Green Steam is back 

39:25 SteamOS 3.5 and HDR on Linux 

42:22 Bluetooth on Steam Deck 

NEW GAMES

43:04 Untitled Ghost Game

45:00 Haunted objects 

GAME UPDATES

46:06 Starfield optimized for Linux 

50:14 $4 Avengers 

52:17 StarRim 

52:55 Distance retro console port 

56:46 Venn played BloodStained 

NEWS

59:43 VKD3D Proton 2.10     

01:01:32 Direct Storage on Linux

01:02:40 Mangohud with AMD fans 

01:03:05 Text outline girth 

01:04:09 Steam Mango button 

01:05:27 ReShade support with gamescope 

01:07:59 WTF is ReShade?

01:08:28 Looking at some Shades 

01:12:08 ReShade for Minecraft?

HATE MAIL

01:13:34 Hello from the Soul Reaver project 

01:17:29 Moody vampires 

01:24:35 Credits