Linked by JoshB on Mon 14th Nov 2011 11:45 UTC
When I decided to take on this article I thought it would be easy. Grab a few quotes from some developers, re-hash WINE support, check out the latest version of Battle for Wesnoth... Simple stuff.
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RE: Android & OpenGL games
by lgoss007 on Mon 14th Nov 2011 19:53
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It would be nice if OpenGL on Android benefited Linux ports, but I doubt it will be the case.
Most of the AAA games and the game engines they use are already built to support different rendering libraries. The biggest hurdle I believe is the commercial factor, rewards vs costs and risks.
Having used a few different game engines that don't have Linux support (which is almost all of them) I've always asked why not and the answer is always.. it doesn't make good business sense, market is small and not much money in it.
It may seem like some extra income for free.. but another platform with a wide variety of hardware configurations to test on can end up costing a lot for a large developer.. and they are not going to cut into their profit margins. And the game engine companies mostly just follow the trends of the industry and their buyers wishes. For big corporations the simple fact is.. follow the money.
RE: Android & OpenGL games
by makkus on Tue 15th Nov 2011 06:56
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RE[2]: Android & OpenGL games
by Kivada on Tue 15th Nov 2011 07:24
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I'm hoping on a quad core ARM and tegra4 based laptop purely designed to run Linux. The seperate components are there, now a company who is willing to take the risk. That will be the day I ditch Lenovo.
Nvidia ever going to release a Tegra driver for Linux or just a custom driver for Android? While the prospect of those quad 64 bit 2.5Ghz ARM CPUs are great the GPU will by far be your biggest limitation in what can be done.
Any idea on what the next gen successor to the E-450 will be? http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bobcat/AMD-E%20Series%20E-450... Would make for a decent netbook at no more then 1280x768.
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"So in summary... Google has pulled the plug on support on a protocol they've helped popularize, after years of promising interoperability, for reasons that are dubious at best, and in a way that leaves people who don't jump to the new Hangouts app unable to talk to their contacts without any feedback that their IMs aren't getting through... And they've done that with no warning to anyone. I imagine there's a bunch of people out there wondering where some of their buddies have gone, or why their messages aren't getting responses, because this isn't documented anywhere." Google really messed this up. Such a dick move.
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The Tizen Greek Community has some screenshots of a very recent build of Tizen running on a Samsung GT-i8800. It looks wholly unremarkable.
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Joint statement to The Next Web from Microsoft and Google: "Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube's API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time." Good to know these children stopped acting like little pricks. Can we have full Google support in Windows 8 now, please?
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Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, for $1.1 billion USD. Tumblr offers little revenue but lots of eyeballs if Yahoo can monetarize them. Now Yahoo is bidding for Hulu, the streaming video service. After years of ineffective responses while Google, Facebook, and others took large chunks of the online advertising market, Yahoo is fighting back. Can Yahoo reignite the momentum it had at the turn of the century? What do you think?
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"Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said." Sucks to be Google today, apparently.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:01 UTC
"In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 22:23 UTC
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Interesting interview with the producers of the Amnesia game on how Linux and Mac ports save a game studio.
http://zcint.co.uk/article/jens-nilsson-frictional-games-interview
The Desura client for Linux might go open sources
http://www.desura.com/groups/desura/forum/thread/open-sourcing-desu...
Dont know if Android counts.The quality of games is improving fast (example http://www.madfingergames.com/)and some quad core mobile gpu's is said to reach PS3 quality next year.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/11/arm-touts-playstation-3...
The hardware is also relatively cheap (Tegra's 3 going for between $15-$25 apparantly and Omap 4 between $12-$14.)
Android's 3D graphics library is OpenGL ES 2.0 based so this could only benefit Linux ports?
Edited 2011-11-14 15:11 UTC