Q3A Editor For Linux

A number of folks, including LokiSoft, have pointed out that Loki has released a beta version of the tools needed to develop Q3A mods and levels under Linux. You can get the SDK here, as well as get more news and such from their Q3A page.

Comments

nOT for me!

[bfree]

I have been trying to buy Q3A for linux since last December. I refuse the windows version (I don't know if MS get a penny of it, but I want my vote to be for linux) and I really want to buy the game in a shop over a counter. If the only linux versions bought are online, my vote is only affecting the producers, I want the shops to take a bit more notice of linux (lets face it Q3 is a big release so it is certainly the sort of product they should be testing the waters with). After asking and asking and asking in shops from top to tail of Ireland without any success (and I would happily pre-pay to order it!) the following occurred:

Dear HMV,
Why do you not sell Quake ]I[ Arena for linux. You sell it for Windows and Mac (and all three versions left Id Software together). www.linuxemporium.co.uk has stock so therefore it can be sold in the uk (I'm Irish by the way and was told in Belfast that I should try elsewhere, and the same in Dublin except they said it was on order for ever but that they had not received any from YOU). I can buy Quake III for Linux online, but I refuse, I want to a member of staff of a shop that sells computer games to hand me my copy and I will hand them my money. I will order it (as I have told your people), and I know of quite a few other people who would be tempted to buy it. Apart from anything else it comes in a pretty silver box!!!
Please stop being so prejudiced and give linux a chance, you stock things like applixware which will never excite anyone, so why snub the open source revolution by not stocking the most exciting game of the last millenium in all its glory.

And their reply!

Thank you for your email regarding Linux games.
I have forwarded your comments to our Games Buyer at Head Office for his comments.
The reasons that we do not stock this format are that the range available at the present time is mostly Business software. As it is still a relatively new format, it is not supported by all the games companies, and we have therefore not been presented with the product. If the range grows and includes up to date titles that can be distributed in the UK, then we will look into stocking limited titles in specific stores.
With regards to the Quake 3 game, our Games Buyer has spoken to Activision (the games publisher in the UK) and they have told him that it has not been officially sold in this country. It can be bought on the Internet and in selected import shops, as it is available to buy in America. Activision have no plans to sell this title officially through UK High Street retailers.
I hope that I have helped answer your enquiry, and would like to thank you for your interest in HMV.
Yours sincerely,
Name Removed
Customer Service

I am not impressed!

Re:Link weirdness

[Genom]

I believe the correct link is http://quake3.lokigames.com

Slash Compound?

[jbarnett]

What would be cool if CmdrTaco and them released the blue prints to the slash compound, that would be a cool little death match.

That or the CIA national headquaters, running around fragging people in there, but uh then again it probably isn't the easiest place to get blue prints for. And if you do have blue prints for the CIA national headquaters you would probably suddenly "disappear" if you posted them on slashdot.

The white house, now that would be cool, fragging people in the lincoln room.

I used to make maps in Quake 1 of my house, school and place of work, but I had a couple people freak on me when I released the map to my school, they said it was unhealthy.

Loki the Open Source gaming company?

[Denor]

You know, Loki's a gaming company I can really respect. I've bought Heroes III and Railroad Tycoon II from them, and am planning on getting Heavy Gear II as well. I've never had a problem with their games.
Even better, in my opinion, is their attitude towards open source. While they can't open-source the games they port (for obvious reasons), they've opensourced the library they use to develop their games (SDL), the bug-tracking system (Fenris), and their setup installer. Those who develop programs with SDL and use the mailing list or newsgroup can easily get in touch with Sam Lantiga, the man who started SDL development.
Here's to hoping that other game companies follow Loki's example. It's nice having a corporation that you can actually respect.

Re:Quake? A tool for dehumanizing children

[jbarnett]

You know my freind, you should eat so much acid when reading slashdot, also sleeping once a week might also do you some good.

Let me ask you this.

You know in Central Park (New York, NY) in the winter time when the pond freezes over, where do the ducks go, do they fly away by themselves or does someone come and take them away, to maybe a zoo or something for the winter?

Lets think about this, this (Quake 3) is the creatation of ID Software, a third party company that has no ties to the United States Goverment, other than them (ID Software) pays their taxes every year, that is the only ties they have. So why would ID Software want to brain wash our kids for the United States Goverment?

Second, if the goverment really wanted "Super killers" why the hell couldn't the CIA go down to the local Mental Ward, take a few psycho path and serail killers, people already desenative to death and killing and start training them in miltary combat?

You know how much the United States Goverment would have to spend to do a full fledge "brain wash" campain on all the youth of this country? That would be tons of taxes dollars WASTED down the drain ... ... ... ... ... ... ok so you may have a point.

Re:Can someone confirm or deny this?

[jbarnett]

Both Quake and Quake2 had pentagrams in them. Are pentagrams satanic or witcha? Also goats heads and gothic looking stuff. If a pentagram is a satanic symbol, but Quake and Quake2 had satanic symbols in them. It won't really surpise me if Quake3 had some to (haven't played it yet).

On the other side though, I do remember crosses, which are a christain (and jewish??) symbols.

Re:Quake? A tool for dehumanizing children

[Anonymous Coward]

I frown upon you, friend.

As both a preacher of the Christian Religion, and a father, I see little harm in letting my children play these games. I believe it's every person's right to have the knowledge of how to kill their fellow man, to increase one's knowledge in the subject is to learn how to prevent future tradegies. I often sit down with my son after long sessions of Q3A and ask him "Son, how many people did you frag? You know that while you may have railed their assess off, they are still living on the other end. The LORD smiles upon you for destroying them to bloody giblets within the context of a video game, and not in real life."

Yes, the LORD truely does smile upon us, the digital killers, for we abstain from real life killing.

School Maps

[Zibby]

What's wrong with that? My high school make a great deathmatch map. Smoke filled bathrooms, strange disections going on in the classrooms, working elevator (that went to the unseen 4th floor and the roof)

Awful as it is, the libiary was one of the best places. Porn displayed on the workstations, and bookshelves at just the right hight for walking behind. (Watch out, there are gaps in the books...) A few overturned tables where there weren't bookshelves.

And the lunchroom brought new meaning to "beware of food."

Of corse, the evil bots had to spawn from the administrative offices. =)