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LGP Announces Game Development Team

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Ronald Hymer writes "Linuxlookup.com is reporting Linux Game Publishing has announced the Linux Game Development Project team. The eight winners of LGP's game development company initiative were announced last evening and Linuxlookup's very own resident programmer Matt Wilson was granted one of the eight positions on the team. Along with project information, they link submitted code samples along with the team member URL's." See our previous story about this. Hey team: no penguins in your game, okay?

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  1. Good Luck by FortKnox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good luck competing in todays PC gaming market (hope you have the cash to buy a good game engine instead of taking the time to make one from scratch).
    Remember, graphics and wizbangs are what makes the sale, but plot and fun is what makes a game outlast time.

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    1. Re:Good Luck by garcia · · Score: 4, Insightful

      but plot and fun is what makes a game outlast time.

      Wow, I still have my 21 year old Ms. Pacman machine. There's no plot. There's no graphics. Yet it somehow stands the test of time (also the fact that they recently re-released it in conjunction w/another arcade classic).

  2. Hopefully not Linux versions of... by L0stb0Y · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...all those microsoft.com games that EVERY PERSON IN MY OFFICE SEEMS TO PLAY...

    Bespelled, Bejeweled....hell, I was starting to think BeOS was making a comeback in the online games industry...

    Actually, it would be great to see some Linux games that could still be enjoyable on slightly older machines...

    But I second the opinion, please, no Giant Robotic penguins battling for supreme server space....

    A nice Mech game would be good...

    LosT

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  3. Re:Cool... by Randolpho · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes! I second this wholeheartedly!!!!1!11!!!!!!

    I miss old-skool graphic adventures. Sure, go 3D if ya gotta, but stick to the gameplay similar to, say, the old Sierra *Quest series.

    And remember... Story, Graphics, Story, Gameplay, Story!

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  4. I'm on windows because by mwolff · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, the only flaw I can find with Linux is the lack of games.

  5. Hey I've an idea by zannox · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Without sounding sarcastic, what to they expect to accomplish? Loki tried; they had excellent game engines and talented programmers. Tribes 2, Hero's of Might & Magic 3, Heavy Gear 2, Heretic 2, Railroad Tycoon, Myth 1 & 2. Not to mention the Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3 and the ton of Quake 2/3 based games. **IF** Loki's biggest problem was indeed mismanagement then lets hope LGP has better people in charge.

    I think they should start with Tribes 3 :) Hey LGP!!! Give Sierra a call. I'm sure they will hook you up like they did Loki. "You can co-develop along with windows, can't release it till 6 months after the windows client is released. PLUS we will charge you 100's of 1000's of bucks for engine licensing. Then, we will release the engine for 100 bucks AFTER you've folded" /sarcasm

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  6. One possible project by Kiwi · · Score: 5, Insightful
    One project these developers can do is finish up and polish xconq, which is a GPL multi-platform real-time strategy wargame which has been in a perpetual state of being incomplete for 17 years now. The game has only two part-time developers and one of them is becoming blind; this game has a lot of promise and I would love to see it get the kind of professional polish that a team of eight programmers working on it for a year can give it.

    I much prefer an open-source game; it allows me to make tweaks and implement house rules; something a proprietary game does not allow.

    - Sam

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