Expert Opinions On Linux Gaming's Future

jg21 writes "Following on from yesterday's Slashdot coverage of the idea to launch a games-based Linux distro, LinuxWorld Magazine has held a Gaming Round Table involving Chris DiBona, Ryan Gordon, Timothee Besset, Gavriel State, and Joe Valenzuela about where Linux currently stands and how it will one day become a premier gaming platform. 'It became perfectly clear to me that most of the technological issues are already solved, and that the others won't take too long to fix once the game publishers really get into the mix,' reports Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Gaming Industry Editor for LinuxWorld, who coordinated the round table. Well worth reading."

Comments

Re:Where's the games at?

[FreemanPatrickHenry]

Duh. It's called Nethack! What more do you want?

You and your newfangled first person whatchamacallits...

You heard it here first

[Anonymous Coward]

Mahjongg is a first person whatchamacallit.

Re:Where's the games at?

[Anonymous Coward]

Chicken, meet egg. Egg, say 'hello' to chicken.

Linux games on Xbox

[tttonyyy]

1. Convert Xbox to run Linux
2. Convert games developers to Linux
3. ???
4. PROFIT!

Apple gamers....

[MagicDude]

I just hope it turns out better than being a Mac Gamer. (Complements of the Red vs. Blue guys)

http://webdev.o1.com/rvb/movies/switch/RvB_switch. mov

Re:Yay!

[mgoodman]

that's why we need linux to adopt a uniform package management system that can appease binary as well as source installations and solve/download dependencies...im looking your way gentoo...

Re:Hmmm...

[The Lynxpro]

"and both Mac and Linux are UNIX based..."

Careful. That sounded like an SCO penned legal brief.

Re:It's all about the money (mostly)

[Anonymous Coward]

Pigeon? Poultry? Freudian slip?

Re:Hmmm...

[offpath3]

Sweet! Then we could play breakout, super breakout, and photoshop in Linux!

Re:It's all about the money (mostly)

[Anonymous Coward]

so why bother with a poultry 5%

Besides, what kind of games would chickens really want to play anyway?

There are only so many different first person road crossing simulations that anyone can stand...

Re:It's all about the money (mostly)

[Anonymous Coward]

poultry?

Mmm I like chicken.

Dont you mean paltry 5%

Slashdot cracks me up.

Good think I'm not illetterate ;P
that would just be rediculous!

Re:It's all about the money (mostly)

[G-funk]

"95% of the market is Windows, so why bother with a poultry 5%"

Er... Cockadoodledoo?

Re:Where's the games at?

[T3kno]

I haven't had to reboot either, all I do is type:

wine winboot

If I need to do a hard boot I just type:

killall -9 'wine'

And it's all better.

The Solution.

[Tatarize]

Charge for the Windows version.
Release the Linux version for free.

Game makers still make all their money, the windows folks out number the linux folks by a huge margin. But, never underestimate Joe Windows-came-pre-installed's wanten need to save a buck.

Also, for the game creator this brings much geek love. Geek love is ofcourse the best type of love. If only women could learn that lesson.

So game creator X, you have a raving band of loving geeks? What do you want to do with em?

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