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Developing Games On and For Linux/SteamOS

Posted by Soulskill on from the year-of-linux-on-the-console dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the release of SteamOS, developing video game engines for Linux is a subject with increasing interest. This article is an initiation guide on the tools used to develop games, and it discusses the pros and cons of Linux as a platform for developing game engines. It goes over OpenGL and drivers, CPU and GPU profiling, compilers, build systems, IDEs, debuggers, platform abstraction layers and other tools."

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  1. Richard Stallman endorses Gamemaker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Richard Stallman endorsed Gamemaker.

    "There's nothing that Gamemaker cannot do. Gamemaker can simply do anything. Anything made in Gamemaker is fantastic. I love Gamemaker. I can't get enough of Gamemaker. Return to Gamemakerdom, you insolent insects! You're nothing without Gamemaker! Why not use Gamemaker? Linux is garbage; it wasn't made in Gamemaker. Why do you cower? Because you're not using Gamemaker. Use Gamemaker already! Return, return, return, return, return to Gamemakerdooooooooooooooom!" -Richard M. Stallman, on Gamemaker.

    1. Re:Richard Stallman endorses Gamemaker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Have you HURD about gamemaker?

    2. Re:Richard Stallman endorses Gamemaker by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      This message paid for by the Society To Keep Richard Stallman Away From Society.

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    3. Re:Richard Stallman endorses Gamemaker by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

      It Emacs me sick.

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  2. Re:give it up by fisted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually we peaked with NetHack. It's been a while, admittedly, but then again, you guys never had a peak anywhere near that high

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  3. You can. . . by smittyoneeach · · Score: 3, Funny

    . . .but only if you're going to run them within a BeOS VM on Linux.
    Sorry, I don't make these rules; I just enforce them.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear