Hey,

Sorry that this is my first post, and I apologise for 'spamming', but I hope you will understand. A couple of us have setup a generic gaming petition website. Basicaly all those who support gaming in linux, and want to game in linux, please help support the cause.

http://www.gamersforlinux.com

Basicaly we want to show the game producers out there, that there is a demand. Please help us out.

Thanks in advance.

There are already plenty of good games for linux, plus there have been miles of petitions before with no result. Ppersonally I can see it's more useful to get behind the companies that do release linux versions and give your support to those developing open source games.

Not to crap on your idea, just my 2c.

I'm afraid that success will make things worse. Now the best chances to get popular are with games which are interesting in first place, and usually have word of mouth as main advertisement and graphics drawn after the game is playable. They say that on gaming consoles graphics is the first concern for game developers (I don't know for obvious reason) and on Windows market advertisement of FarCry surely make it more known than Pontifex (bridge building game). They say market is going to repeat the console fate. Do we need it?

Go search LiquidWar (RTS can be said, but it's out-of-genre), TORCS (racing), Tuxracer (racing - or flying?), Neverball (arcade, tilting platform to make the ball go through the maze - in wide sense), lots of board games (like KReversi or gnuchess with xboard) etc available under open source licenses. Maybe you would like to support some of them. You still want a shiny new FPS (old go in Wine, actually)?

linux IS a game.
Anyway, it is not a classical video game as defined in the common culture (FPS, RTS, RPG, ...).
The open source model doesn't seem to work for those games. I see several reasons for that. The first being the life time of games. Games are trendy, and one get bored quickly about it. Open source is about evolution, but video games are thrown out to trash 6 month after release (except some rare exceptions). Games are quick and dirty programming. You would be horrified if you saw the code of some mainstream games. Open source is suitable to develop the tools to build those quick and dirty games, but a game should not take more than 6 months to develop and be played for the next 6 months.
Petition Microsoft to release DirectX for linux.

Plenty of good games? You mean 20 different versions of majohong? I just wanna play battlefield2 and other such games, if you dont want to, dont sign the petition. If you feel like me, sign the petition

The only people who ever read these petitions are the people who write them, the people who vote on them and The Register. The gaming companies do not read them and if they did, they just ignore them. So good luck with the petition.

The thread is now in General.

Do you really know well situation with games running on GNU/Linux? Surely, if you want to play "Battlefield" and Wine fails and you don't want to buy Cedega/it is incompatible with this game you are out of luck. But if you want to play some good RTS - you have good chances. Have you ever heard of "Glest"? I haven't, but I haven't searched for RTS'es.

Many games are develoepd with DirectX, porting won't be easy.

I read some news of Mac version of DirectX(it didn't offend the copy right?)

Sadly, I think you're all too right about that. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't still tilt at windmills.

Good links on the site anyway. A couple of interesting looking Linux native games I wasn't aware of before.

Can someone point me to an online petition that's actually worked?

Then dual boot. Why insist on 100% linux when Windows is absolutely required for something you absolutely need to do? I know plenty of Windows users and there is no way in hell I'd ever want them to use linux. It wouldn't make sense for their situation, does it make sense to not run Windows in yours?

I commend the effort \o/

If you want to play recently published games then head over to transgaming.org and you can purchase their product. Works really well from my experience.

Thanks for that, but I own a copy of Cedega, and am closely involved with both Transworld Gaming and Evenbalance to try get a darn working solution. The problem at the moment, is while I can play bf2 online linux (just with terrible graphics), I can not play online, and on a ranked server which is extremely important for me.

And why the hell should I dual boot? What type of silly solution is that? Just give up, and only choose things that are ethicly right for me only when it suites me? common, thats a poor shoody answer.

If ure running ubuntu, and are interested in gaming, you may wish to have a look at this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1222401 If you are not running ubuntu, then lets just chat here

I have been speaking to the guys at LGP, and I should be able to get battlefield 2 ported nativly to linux for about $150 000. Working on coming up with the money so I can get the game moved across.

Anyone else here who can help out, let me know.

If you are a Linux geek who just can't stand Windows but still want to play from time to time buy a console. The PSP is great, for example. :) And if you get tired of playing on your Xbox you can always install gentoox on it. ;)

And by the way, the gaming makers will only produce games for Linux when we have enough market share and good graphics drivers. I still can't get my VIA Unichrome to work so I understand if they just won't do games for Linux. So I would start pushing for (better (ehum.. ATI...)) native drivers instead of games.