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Interview with LGames' Michael Speck
Gentu writes "OSNews interviews one of the two more influential Free game developers for Linux today, Michael Speck of LGames. Michael talks about the Linux game market, about Linux's performance as a multimedia platform, his future plans and much more."
Michael seems to be a nice guy allright. And the games he did are really enjoyable little funny things. And it's clear hat he knows more about programming than me or 98% of the SlashDot crowd. ...BUT it REALLY surprises me that he is attributed "one of the two more influential Free game developers for Linux today". Look at a professional games developer for comparison and you know what I mean. I'm sure there would be a lot of fun games around if there where more people like Michael Speck but he has not yet done anything of (even moderately) big scope in the gaming scene. I'm only writing this because the SlashDot article implicitly suggested there was an interview with some sort of Linux games guru, when instead there was an interview with a gifted young hobby programmer learning his way through the SDL...
A "legalize marijuana" badge might be inappropriate on, say LinuxGames or Happy Penguin. But this is Michael's personal development page. He wrote all the games, he wrote the website. If he wants to lobby for something totally unrelated, that's his prerogative. Deal.
Id really say he can put anything he wants to up on his website that is showing off his 'hobby'. We really shouldn't let political correctness control the way we live, and especially control our hobbyist nature.
comes to the lgames website, and is immediately assaulted with this image?
I also find it amusing that you would be immediately assaulted by an image of a pot leaf. I didn't even notice it when I first went there, I had to go back and look after reading your post..
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one of the two more influential Free game developers for Linux today
I went to the LGames site and saw versions of Tetris, Breakout, the old memory game, and so on. Now don't get me wrong, I like Linux, and I like games, and I'm not a 3D bigot, but we're talking about stale old stuff here. If this is what an influential developer puts out, then I just don't know.
Michael Speck: If games are developed platform-independant from the start which allows to sell it for different platforms in one package with one price then there will definitely be a market under Linux.
As long as nearly all Linux gamers dual boot or emulate there is no Linux game market from a commercial point of view. Speck makes a classic mistake when determining the size of the Linux game market. The Linux game market is not the number of people who would buy a Linux version of a game, it is the number who would only buy the Linux version and never buy the Win32. He seems to fail to consider that replacing a Win32 sale with a Linux sale does no good for a publisher, there is no new sale.