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Myth II and Railroad Tycoon II For Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the time-to-do-porting dept.

pridkett writes "Loki Games, the same people who brought us Civ:CTP for Linux have just announced that they will be porting Myth II and Railroad Tycoon II to Linux. " This just came across my inbox as well-I've played both games on WinX before-let's hope they do as good a job of porting this, as they did with Civ:CTP.

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  1. Re:CIV: CTP sales results? by smartax · · Score: 4

    /me crunches some numbers...

    We ( handeye.com) are one of the sites that sells this game. Our sales have thus far been pretty healthy, considering that everything up 'til now has been a pre-order. We have around 1000 copies of Civ:CTP, about 20% of which were pre-ordered. As of today, when we actually receive the boxes from Loki (and ship out the games), we expect our sales to perk up a little.

    News like this (the porting of these two games) makes me very happy, as a long-time Linux enthusiast and occasional gamer. It's great to see that there's a market for Linux games and a growing market for commercial Linux software in general. (What else is new, though, right?)

    <kiss target="ass">
    I'd like to thank quite a few of you (you know who you are) for making us a well-trafficked web site. We've gotten about 400,000 hits since our public launch in late April/early May, and people have been sending positive feedback. We especially get warm feelings when people tell us we're giving back to the Linux community. Anyway, I'll keep churning out the Perl as long as you folks are interested in buying games.
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    -Ben (who hopes his lt's and gt's don't get mangled when he submits this)
  2. Games On Linux by Hrunting · · Score: 4

    More important than the fact that games are being released for Linux is the fact that gaming subsystems are being developed for Linux. Carmack's recent investment in the Mesa project and the release of games like the Q3Test show that there's an interest in taking advantage of some of Linux's possibilities. I don't know how well it's going to work out as right now, Linux really doesn't have the strongest of foundations for gaming, but the beginning holes are there as more and more processors and video chips are being supporting (the OSS drivers were a big step forward). Unfortunately for me, one of the biggest reasons that I run Linux is also one of the biggest reasons that I don't play games on it: my computer's simply too old.

    I look forward to seeing how the market responds to this. I hope companies actually start developing Linux binaries that they can include on the shipping CDs so we don't have to wait for some other company to port them. id has already shown that the process can be relatively simply. Not that I want to see Loki Games disappear, but I hope we won't have to depend on just them for Linux versions of our favorite Windows games.