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Best Way to Port a Windows Game to Linux?

Posted by Cliff on from the shortcuts-to-market dept.

cliffski asks: "I have a Windows game that may benefit from a port to Linux. It's a complex politics sim based on a neural network, (think NationStates with complexity) and is probably right up the street of many Linux gamers. The problem right now is that I don't have the knowledge or the time to handle a Linux port, myself. What's the best way to arrange for a commercial port of games software to the Linux platform? Is it worth talking to lone enthusiastic hackers about collaborating? Would I save myself a lot of hassle by selling the porting rights to an established Linux games company?"

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  1. WINE by kngthdn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, I'm assuming the submitter linked to Positech Games' website for a reason...so I downloaded and installed the demo using WINE, and it seemed to work nicely.

    When I run Democracy.exe, it makes some very cool noises, violently freezes up, stops responding to all my input, and then forces me to 'killall wine' and start over fresh after a while.

    Not a bad start really, but you might want to simulate stupid politicians, taxes, and some oppressive patent laws, too. ; )

    Then release a Dictator.exe that can't even be pkill'd!!

    1. Re:WINE by AvitarX · · Score: 3, Funny

      It is clearly working too fast to be a political simlator.

      Must be a problem with WINE.

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  2. Re:The best way: by orthogonal · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you do end up porting it, you'll instantly become a faggot zealot who likes to suck dick and take it up the ass. Eventually, the grand-pubah faggot zealot linus whorevalds himself will come around and make you his personal bitch. You'll take it in the ass all day long, swallowing load after load of his steaming pile of crappy codecum.

    Wow, your game's simulation of the results of Red State education policies is spot on!

    All that's missing from the lame gay-baiting is a rambling denunciation of about "Derwenean EVIL-lution"!

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  3. Deja Vu by bleaknik · · Score: 1, Funny

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    2. The sensation that slashdot is losing it's edge.

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  4. The best port is no port by cr380r · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe it seems a bit too obvious to me, but why not develope games in Java so that they don't have to be ported. Virtual machines are ideal because of this very situation.