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LCA: Linux gaming at lastLCA: Linux gaming at lastPosted Feb 7, 2013 10:10 UTC (Thu) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654)Parent article: LCA: Linux gaming at last
Zero-AD (aka 0ad) is also a pretty interesting (and IMHO unique) example of a hackable and open source game running on Linux (http://play0ad.com/ or http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/ ).
BTW, it incorporates a performance measurement approach that offers the hierarchical view suggested in the article. But that was built-in by the original developpers (press F6 IIRC).
FWIW, they are looking after SpiderMonkey Javascript optimization gurus... Yes, the game logic itself is in Javascript: nice performance testcase isn't it?
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LCA: Linux gaming at last Posted Feb 11, 2013 21:58 UTC (Mon) by anholt (guest, #52292) [Link]
Yeah, I need to spend some time on 0ad. It's got a bug on our driver currently and I need to get a trace and start trimming that down to a testcase. I don't know how many are playing it currently, but it sure looks like the kind of game I'm interested in, at least :)
One of the things I forgot to mention that's really cool about working with Valve is that, thanks to it being an online service, they collect a lot of metrics. With approval for access, you can get at information like what distribution of chips is in use by valve users, or what share Linux is among their users overall. It's reminded me to give more love to the older chips than I had been, as painful as they are to work on. Things like debian's popcon package are close to this, except it doesn't get active usage information like they do (I've got neverball installed, but I sure don't play it), and each individual distro's popcon equivalent wouldn't be much information on its own.
LCA: Linux gaming at last Posted Feb 13, 2013 8:54 UTC (Wed) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]
Popcon does track active usage information, from atime:
http://popcon.debian.org/FAQ
This won't work if you've got the filesystem mounted with noatime, but it will work if you use relatime.
LCA: Linux gaming at last Posted Feb 13, 2013 19:54 UTC (Wed) by anholt (guest, #52292) [Link]
Very cool! Of course, it doesn't get the stuff outside of debian (steam, HIB), but here's what I managed to get out of it for "games people are using", most popular first:
2231 gnuchess 44230 1890 35622 6677 41 (Oliver Korff)
If I try to filter for things I know of as being "GL games":
2857 yakuake 2305 1145 1047 113 0 (Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez)
It's interesting to see the long tail of games being run. I'd be interested in some of the time-spent information you get out of steam, and whether this is just 68 people having run all these games for testing or if many people are playing different stuff, but it's at least more information than I thought we had. It'll help me balance priorities of bugs among these games.
None of this GL stuff is as popular as solitaire, though.
LCA: Linux gaming at last Posted Feb 13, 2013 20:03 UTC (Wed) by andrel (subscriber, #5166) [Link] There is also Ubuntu Popcon which seemingly has a larger pool of contributors.
LCA: Linux gaming at last Posted Feb 14, 2013 11:15 UTC (Thu) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]
In your list you have 'yakuake'... This is not a game but a terminal emulator ;)
LCA: Linux gaming at last Posted Feb 14, 2013 16:22 UTC (Thu) by anholt (guest, #52292) [Link]
Oh, right. I remember hearing about that long ago and thinking... quake-style terminal emulator? Why is quake's terminal particularly interesting?
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