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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. Re:wonderbar.... by Iceykitsune · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yell at the manufacturer of your card, not the linux devs. They can only do so much without the full details of how the card arcitecue is tsructured.

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  2. Re:Bleak future of PC gaming? by Lucky75 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Damn I wish I had mod points. Whiteboy86 seems to just be repeating the standard apple rhetoric. PC gaming is NOT dying. The quality of the games on a phone/tablet is no where near what it is on a PC. Full stop.

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  3. Re:A nice gesture by somenickname · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Official Wine support would certainly be a step in the right direction. I played WoW under Wine long ago and I got the impression that while it wasn't officially supported, it wasn't such an unsavory configuration that Blizzard would tell you to bugger off if you asked for support for it. I have no evidence to back this up but, I also got the impression that the desire to play WoW on linux gave the Wine project a very tangible flagship kind of "This Must Work" application. So, while I would love to see native linux clients, official Wine support would still be amazing and, possibly more beneficial to the linux community because of the side effects of having a better Wine.

  4. Re:What surprises me... by Kjella · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For one most of the people that are paid have employers that want them to focus on specific things, not in detail but I doubt they'd could sit around making games on company time. The other thing is that it's much easier to envision a mod of an existing game than a new game, and on Linux you're mostly talking about a new game. There's few existing communities today. The open source model has proven much more effective when there is a clear rally flag, the way FreeCiv is a clone of civilization.

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