Linux 'n games

[Wolfgang]

On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 10:25, Bryan Encina wrote:
> > Thus spake Thomas:
> > # personal experience is, that it takes a lot more time to
> > get a game work
> > # with linux. There is just a small number of native linux
> > games and an
> > # even smaller number of good native linux games that can compare to
> > # modern games that were written for platforms like MS.
> >
> > Here I see an ongoing problem that only seems to be getting
> > worse.  I see many
> > people complaining that "Linux doesn't have games" but I
> > don't see many people
> > writing new games for Linux.  Or people will complain that
> > "the games on Linux
> > aren't as good as those on Windows/OtherOS."  But no one is
> > taking the existing
> > games and making them better.  Isn't this the point of Open
> > Source? If it isn't
> > there, create it.  If it doesn't do what you want, fix it so
> > it does.  Or if you
> > can't do that, by all means submit bug reports and/or feature
> > requests.
> >
> I totally understand what you're saying, here's a few reasons I can think
> of:
> 
> -If I wanted to get practical experience in the hopes of getting a gaming
> job in the future I'd work with Direct 3D over OpenGL.
> 
> -If I wanted to create a game, I'd want people to actually use it, the
> community for gaming is much larger for MS Windows users.  As it is now, I
> can barely find enough real life friends to play games with on the most
> widely used OS, if I limited myself to developing/playing something on linux
> it would bring it down to 1, maybe 2 other people.
> 
> -Better driver support for graphics/sound cards in windows.
> 
> -Most of the linux users I know stopped playing games a while ago since we
> all left college and are still waiting for me to grow up as they're more
> interested server type stuff than games.
> 
> Right now, the only real reason I have a windows box at home is for games,
> if not I'd be fine with linux only.  Until more companies actively support
> linux,  I'll have to have windows around.
> 
> -b

There are heaps of games for Linux around, and new ones emerging all the
time.

Here is a small list of "First Person Shooters", (Which are the types of
games that I like).

Descent 3
Quake
Quake 2
Quake 3
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament 2003
Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo (This one has just been released)
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Enemy Territory
Heretic 2

Games that have been remade to run on Linux

Doom
Doom II
Heretic
Duke Nukem 3D Plutonium Pack

And there are other games like

Neverwinter Nights Etc. etc.

And these ALL run natively on Linux

Wolf