Linux Game Company Opens Doors [LWN.net]

Linux Game Company Opens Doors

Posted Nov 7, 2007 9:17 UTC (Wed) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
Parent article: Linux Game Company Opens Doors

I'd rather support projects like http://www.flightgear.org/ which are actually doing something
very credible... and it'd actually look like Flight Gear would benefit from someone who could
organize the web pages and communication somewhat, from the look of the pages.

Freeciv 2.1.0 is also out, http://freeciv.wikia.com/. And indeed on the shoot-em-up genre
there are a few rather good-looking free/open games available.

Sites like http://www.linuxgames.com/ cover both free and non-free high-quality games, though
indeed there's still so much more that could be achieved in the area of free software games. I
hope some people will figure out how to make success stories there.

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Linux Game Company Opens Doors

Posted Nov 7, 2007 12:59 UTC (Wed) by mbottrell (guest, #43008) [Link]

Hmm.... nice idea, bad game.

It's a great way to grab some headlines and get your name known. Really though, if you are going to make Linux games... look at something that looks like it's 2007 not 1987.

AlienArena 2007 leaves it for dead... and it's free.

Really, if you want people to pay for your games... (I have no objection.. I've bought all the iD games for Linux..) make sure that they are at least better than the freeware stuff around.

Try a new game... one that at least people are going to want to play. Block graphics doesn't cut it anymore.. .and hasn't for over a decade.

Linux Game Company Opens Doors

Posted Nov 7, 2007 14:16 UTC (Wed) by dwheeler (guest, #1216) [Link]

Another very interesting game engine is Delta3D; that even gets U.S. funding. (Which I think is a great idea; the U.S. government should do more of this kind of thing.)

I think ransoming software is a very good idea. But the hostage has to be worth the money :-).

Linux Game Company Opens Doors

Posted Nov 7, 2007 16:52 UTC (Wed) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link]

Wow, looks like some pretty impressive stuff is being done with Delta3D.  Too bad some of it
doesn't appear readily available to civilians.  (Granted, most of it's designed as training
aids rather than pure games, although no doubt there are plenty of us that would get a kick of
out of playing with the training versions.)

FlightGear (which somebody else mentioned above) is another package which has also been
incorporated into a number of other projects (either as the flight dynamics or the
visualization portion).

Those are great examples of what can be accomplished building on good engines with open
source, where you're not necessarily limited to whatever interface (if any) a proprietary
engine might offer.