Star Thoughts of a Linux Game Porter
Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 20:56 UTC, submitted by Michael
Games The folks over at Phoronix had an interesting interview with Linux game porter, Frank Earl. Despite the apparent decline in PC gaming, Earl has worked for Linux Game Publishing for several years and was seeking input from the community at large for game suggestions at Phoronix. He's also done work independently on porting various software over from Windows. The interview covers work that Earl has done, difficulties that arise in porting commercial games to Linux, successes they've had, his views on Linux in general, and his thoughts on the future of gaming in Linux.
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RE[2]: Interesting article
by Rugxulo on Sat 4th Jul 2009 20:48 UTC in reply to "RE: Interesting article"
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SDL is being quite actively developed. If you check the mailing lists, you will see that lots of work is being put into the 1.3 release. With the new backends, it will be possible to use 3D acceleration for 2D. Something which is not easily done nowadays.


In particular, I think (hope?) that 1.3 will fix the slowdown issue with Windows (e.g. Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, whose latest 0.5 Tiles sometimes works much better on Linux!!).

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