Kohan for Linux
XarsonX writes "A demo of Kohan Immortal Sovereigns (a real time strategy game) is out on linux. The full version should be coming soon. News, stuff about the game, and the demo are available at www.timegatestudios.com." I hadn't heard much about this game, but the graphics are definitely impressive. Might be worth a download.
This is gonna sound like spam, but i'll say it anyway.
If you're interested in developing games for Linux, alot of the work may already be done for you. I recently started up a project called System 26 a little over a week ago, that aims to provide Linux developers (and Win32 developers, for that matter) with a resource they can visit, and grab all the raw materials they need to build basically anything. By "raw materials", I mean things like images, icons, other graphics, music, sound samples, things like that. They're organized into kits that developers can freely download and incorporate into their apps. In exchange for doing so, we even offer them the ability to showcase their work via our page, to encourage others to do the same.. In essence, we provide the lumber, the developers build the house.
We're trying to build the project's popularity by word of mouth -- I don't believe in banner advertising, and there really is no money to be made by running such a project.. I just thought it would be cool to set up a nexus where artists and coders could exchange their work and loosely collaborate on building high-quality apps and games.
If you're interested, especially if you're going to be building games for Linux, feel free to swing by and check us out. We'll see you there.
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag