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Kohan for Linux Ships
kdgarris writes: "Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns, a real-time strategy game is now available for Linux from Loki. The announcement is not yet on their website, however. A demo was made available earlier this month."
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...anyone who really wanted it got the Windows version.
On the strength of this piece I went to lokigames.com to get the demo.
/. the bastards...
Their generic installer app is a testament to the way that gaming-related companies can occasionally surpass even the best efforts of absolutely everybody else in terms of making a software task, no matter how essentially complex or problematic, slick, stylish and user-friendly. I went the get the Kohan demo and ended up, by choice rather than coercion, downloading the mpeg preview movie, the Simcity 3000 demo, and a few other things.
Admittedly I'm getting between 36-40kb/sec (thank $DEITY for DSL) without which I might curb my curiosity a tad, but that too can be partially atributed to the sensible automatic choice of planetmirror.com as the closest server.
It's Gnome compliant, of course, and takes my theme just nicely.
Whatever Loki's financial situation is at the moment, the quality of their approach to the installer says a lot about the way they go about their work.
Now go show 'em you care: Download the demos...
You know they call 'em fingers but I've never seen 'em fing. Oh, there they go.
A $50 hole in your wallet, a cardboard box, and the sad realization that even though you're buying every Loki game as they come out the company will still go out of business. Come on guys, for every game Loki can port there are 100 games coming out for Windows. Buying old games from a porting house like Loki isn't the way to get games on the Linux platform. You need to start convincing the vendors to code their games to be easily portable when they're starting out and then release a Windows and Linux version on the same CD. How many Loki games are there now? A dozen? Two dozen? There are thousands of Windows games to choose from. Vendors just don't see a market for wasting their time on a Linux version. Selling even 10,000 copies of a game for a Linux platform is paltry compared to the millions they sell on Windows. Face it, dual booting is still the best option if you want to play games. Buy the game when it comes out for Windows (in some cases years before Loki will ever port it) and have fun. Leave the politics and advocacy for the server platform.