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Company Seeks To Boost Linux Game Development With 3D Engine Giveaway

Posted by Soulskill on from the for-services-rendered dept.

binstream writes "To support Linux game development, Unigine Corp. announced a competition: it will give a free license for its Unigine engine to a seasoned team willing to work on a native Linux game. The company has been Linux-friendly from the very start; it released advanced GPU benchmarks (Heaven, Tropics, Sanctuary) for Linux before and is working on the OilRush strategy game that supports Linux as well."

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  1. meh by larry+bagina · · Score: 4, Funny

    there are plenty of FREE (as in GPL) 3D engines on Linux. These posers should take their closed-source engine and cram it up their ass.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

    1. Re:meh by DurendalMac · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, cry that someone is trying to help Linux development. Get pissed because they're not doing it in a way that YOU want.

      Zealots like you are exactly what is wrong with Linux right now. Linux can be free and open all you want, but when you expect software vendors to strictly do the same and badmouth those who don't, you're driving developers away. Less software = less users, plain and simple.

  2. Re:wonderbar.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Welcome fellow moron.

  3. Re:wonderbar.... by 3vi1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    To those marking the parent as insightful, I'd like to see one single link that backs up what he says about video cards being "just framebuffers" under Linux. You realize that most of the OpenGL driver code is shared with the Windows implementations (which is why Heaven pretty much has the same framerates in both OSes), right?