On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 10:25, Bryan Encina wrote:
Thus spake Thomas: # personal experience is, that it takes a lot more time to get a game work # with linux. There is just a small number of native linux games and an # even smaller number of good native linux games that can compare to # modern games that were written for platforms like MS.
Here I see an ongoing problem that only seems to be getting worse. I see many people complaining that "Linux doesn't have games" but I don't see many people writing new games for Linux. Or people will complain that "the games on Linux aren't as good as those on Windows/OtherOS." But no one is taking the existing games and making them better. Isn't this the point of Open Source? If it isn't there, create it. If it doesn't do what you want, fix it so it does. Or if you can't do that, by all means submit bug reports and/or feature requests.
I totally understand what you're saying, here's a few reasons I can think of:
-If I wanted to get practical experience in the hopes of getting a gaming job in the future I'd work with Direct 3D over OpenGL.
-If I wanted to create a game, I'd want people to actually use it, the community for gaming is much larger for MS Windows users. As it is now, I can barely find enough real life friends to play games with on the most widely used OS, if I limited myself to developing/playing something on linux it would bring it down to 1, maybe 2 other people.
-Better driver support for graphics/sound cards in windows.
-Most of the linux users I know stopped playing games a while ago since we all left college and are still waiting for me to grow up as they're more interested server type stuff than games.
Right now, the only real reason I have a windows box at home is for games, if not I'd be fine with linux only. Until more companies actively support linux, I'll have to have windows around.
-b
There are heaps of games for Linux around, and new ones emerging all the time.
Here is a small list of "First Person Shooters", (Which are the types of games that I like).
Descent 3 Quake Quake 2 Quake 3 Unreal Tournament Unreal Tournament 2003 Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo (This one has just been released) Return To Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory Heretic 2
Games that have been remade to run on Linux
Doom Doom II Heretic Duke Nukem 3D Plutonium Pack
And there are other games like
Neverwinter Nights Etc. etc.
And these ALL run natively on Linux
Wolf
I'll add Americian Armies. <http://www.americasarmy.com/>
I am new to game playing. Kids just take up to much time. But what I have learned in the last couple of months is that as game engines get refined for Linux, I think many games will be written for Linux as well.
One reason I purchased a new computer was for games but our household is Windows Free.
-- Robin Laing
