Will the Star Citizen Project Fund Linux and Mac Ports For CryENGINE 3?

Mr. Jaggers writes "Chris Roberts, game designer of Wing Commander fame, has had great success with his new crowd-funded Star Citizen project — so much that the $2m base goal has been smashed with weeks to go on the Kickstarter portion of the campaign. Now Chris is floating a list of stretch goals for fans to vote on, with Linux and Mac support both listed as stretch goal candidates. Since Star Citizen is based on the popular CryENGINE 3 game engine, these stretch goals are equivalent to funding Linux and Mac ports of CryENGINE. Chris couldn't make any absolute promises yet, since he doesn't own the engine, but CryENGINE 3 already supports Android, so at least there is existing OpenGL ES support to be leveraged towards adding Linux and Mac OpenGL support. If there is enough outpouring of cross-platform support from fans in this poll, Star Citizen could turn out to be the high-profile game that brings a AAA game engine to the growing Mac and Linux gaming communities — analogous to the role played by Wasteland 2 in bringing official Linux support to the Unity 4 engine popular among so many Indie developers."

Comments

Re:Who gives a shit?

[Anonymous Coward]

For the same reason you are sitting in front of a television set cheering steroid laced multi-millionaires and feeling proud of someone else's ability to move a ball across a field. Because we like it, just like you like your idiotic sports.

Re:Why is it using CryENGINE???

[hairyfeet]

Are you being obtuse on purpose, or are you just a damned fanboi? Because you can NOT be seriously comparing AN EMBEDDED SOLUTION where the OEMs control ALL of the hwardware AND the code to an actual general purpose operating system, can you? Surely to God you can't be making such a pathetic comparison? That is like saying "Linux is ready for grandma's laptop because her router runs Busybox"...yeah, great analogy there, a hardened embedded OS that for 99.995% of the population will NEVER change one single bit as far as drivers, OS, or underlying software for the life of the device...yeah that REALLY compares to getting a couple of new kernels a year, and dozens if not hundreds of major subsystems changed yearly which will leave you vulnerable and out of date if you don't keep up.

I've heard of "moving the goalposts" but you aren't even talking about the same sport, next time try to at least make an argument that can hold SOME kind of logical sense, mmmkay?