Double fine: "we're cheering for valve and SteamOS

Valve's vision of a steam engine in every living room is generating a lot of excitement, not only players, but also developers. Double fine, for example, is "rooting" for the success of the valve. Double End vice President business development, Justin Bailey and brand Manager Greg Rice, said PC Gamer that the creators of Psychonauts and Brutal Legend and the upcoming broken age are ready for SteamOS and excited about the prospects of moving steam into the living room.

Support of an operating system based on Linux will be easy to study. "All of our games are supported on Linux," says Bailey. "Our proprietary engine, called Buddha, go to your PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android now." In fact, Double End sold Linux versions of its humble bundles and games through steam already. The forthcoming age broke, one of the first successful Kickstarter, will support Linux when it comes to steam early access in January 2014.

"Ultimately, we want to be on the platforms that our fans we want to be," added rice. "We've seen a lot of success on Linux with things like Humble Bundle and Linux sales on Steam already. So it just seems like if we were able to take advantage of it. "

Not surprisingly, rice and Bailey embrace travel of the valve for your stay. Double good games are historically friendly controllers, and SteamOS helps solidify that PC gamers will have the controller as an option. "With PC games in the past," says rice, "was an issue only because one can assume, everyone has a controller, and you know that everyone has a mouse and a keyboard, so a lot of [developers] to consider it an afterthought. But now, steam, coming to only make TV important enough to figure out how to have a good controller controls in their games. "

It is not just professional interest here, either. Rice is excited about SteamOS can change their habits. "I've always wanted a device like this that was someone saying, ' here's the official box that plays games that you can purchase on Steam, and will work with a controller and it is everything you need and can connect it right only on TV, '" he says. "One of my big bummers now with the new console is that I bought 300 games on XBLA and PSN that aren't going to work, then knowing that if I buy a game on Steam will forever on Steam is pretty impressive."

"I think it's a bold strategy," added Bailey. "I think we're rooting for them, it's worth it for them."

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