LGP brings back Loki, Kind Of

michaelsimms writes "Linux Game Publishing has announced a publishing deal with Epic Interactive to publish Northland for Linux. What's this about Loki, you ask? Well, Northland is a game featuring the Norse god Loki, and a group of heroes battling to save the world in the time of Odin and the gods of Nordic myth."

Comments

This is dumb.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not really a Linux gamer, but I know what Loki meant to the community. Connecting the game publisher to a Norse character is just rediculous. A misleading headline like that is a slap in the face. I hope the editors will use more common sense next time. Maybe I should just block all stories by timothy when I'm logged in. At least I'm not a subscriber.

Wanna make Linux a good game platform?

[Overly Critical Guy]

We need:

- A sane desktop. Gnome and KDE are far, far away from being that.
- Proper binary installation/uninstallation routines built in to the GUI, so Adobe could port Photoshop if they wanted, put out a CD, and the desktop would be able to fire up the CD setup installation program and install, adding application shortcuts on the menu and everything.
- A multimedia library, akin to DirectX but even better...not just graphics, but sound, networking, and input.

Basically, it boils down to having a sane desktop. That will let developers port to a standard, non-moving target (and not the crumbling GTK and QT toolkits...even just upgrading to the latest version of QT in Gentoo broke the menu drawing of KDE 3.2).