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LGP Announces Game Development Team
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?
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.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
...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
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
Looks like they haven't got any game to develop yet tho. Perhaps they can hook up with some other game designers and make their games more linux-friendly?
Try to make a Linux game that doesn't reek of amateurish game play and graphics for once...
Maybe we should help! Perhaps an approach similar to how we pick interview questions: take the top ten moderated ideas and send them the link!
Of course, they may have some vague ideas already. Personally, I'd like to see something combining the storyline of a good RPG with the action of a good FPS. Open ended would be nice, something like Privateer or Freelancer but in a fantasy or military setting rather than as a space sim.
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!
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
how about
Duke Penguin
Mortal Linuks
Leisure Suit Linus
Max Penguin
Splinter Server: The M$ add-on
Sorry.
It's one of *those* days.
LosT
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
Having received only seven applications in all for the post, linuxlookup.com made up the deficit by "granting" the remaining position to one of their own programmers :)
Yeah, the only flaw I can find with Linux is the lack of games.
This is the true story (true story) of eight unrelated programmers picked to work on a Linux project and have their code made open. This is what happens when programmers stop being nice, and start being real.
Seriously, I could see this as being the next big reality TV series. I have no doubt that there will be some serious "static" between these people. What kind of leadership model is there going ot be? Are they just throwing them together and letting them work it out amongst themselves? I worked on a Linux game with my best friend, and we were at each others throats within a week and had to ditch the project before we killed each other.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
In the past ten years, people having been flocking to get MFAs in creative writing. There are tons of writers out there. However, it always seem like game developers think that it would be better if they wrote their own stories and scripts. Writing is not a trivial business. I mean, everyone can write, but everyone can sing too. Why not get a writer to write? I understand it becomes a matter of control, and that the developers want to put in their own birlliant anime-influenced ideas, but its like letting the programmers draw the graphics. I suggest getting a writer to write the story, and let them run the story.
... how I got labelled an "International Man of Mystery".
Make one of those, please. The dependence on the 3D card of the user will be minimal. The influence of Linux will be huge. It'll be a new new thing, not a copy of the old new thing. It'll be a challenge.
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Here's a few more:
Age of Geeks
Balmer's Gates
Ballmer's Gates II: Shadows of Redmond
(Eris S.) Rayman
Solid Snack: Sons of Lethargy
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.
:) 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
I think they should start with Tribes 3
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Erm....this story was posted by Michael...and the comment about a penguin-free game that you're applauding was added by Michael too...
do not read this line twice.
The entire writeup at linuxlookup.com was lifted verbatim from my announcement at happypenguin.org. As far as I know, this team has not been announced *anywhere* yet besides happypenguin. Plagiarism sucks, guys.
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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but plot and fun...
Remember, this is an English Language Query, NOT a boolean. Therefore the original poster did not mean you had to have plot AND fun in order for the game to have staying power, but that plot and fun were two members of the set of criteria that can result in staying power. Therefore, a game with plot alone can have staying power, a game with fun alone (Ms. Pacman for example) can have staying power, and a game with plot AND fun can have staying power.
You responded rudely to a post that did NOT exclude your game from the possible set of games with staying power. Ms. Pacman is "fun" and therefore has the possibility to have stying power within the parameters of the original post.
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