AutumnForever
January 7th, 2006, 06:21 PM
I'd just like to post my thoughts on games with linux.
Let's just take a moment to get beyond the Workingness of the games in Linux.
Let's look at the gameplay of the games that DO run on Linux.
All of the wonderful developers are working their best at creating workable solutions for us gamers. But look at it for a moment, the great people who work on these native games and such, other than the commercial ones, lack a sense of imagination. They create these games and are great at making them run, but, from my personal experience, the games lack quality of storyline or gameplay itself.
This isn't their fault, they are doing a really good job at making the games run smooth with decent graphics (some of the time). But really, they are busy, they don't have everyone they need, helping them. The Linux game developers need to get organized! If you're going to put time on something without getting any profit, that is your choice, but don't slow the process down with ill motivation. Organize yourselves, get the people you need, set up a Org board (a board consisting of seperate departments dealing with seperate areas that in all set up a chain that links together smoothly). We need to get away from this "Getting windows games running on Linux" junk and create our own! Yeah Planeshift has some flaws, but out of most of the games so far, it has storyline to it, it gives the Fantasy feeling which is should be giving. They are more organized. Wesnoth, is good, it is cute, graphics could be better (the 2D graphics are fine, but the artwork itself could be a bit better, like smoother, similar to starcraft graphics but more detailed like AoE.)
Basically what I'm trying to say, is that we need to say screw it to the windows games, stop trying to get them to run! You're wasting time that could be spent on actually developing a good product! OpenGL has always blown D3D out of the water performance wise and I personally think the graphics quality is a lot better.
We need to set up, if there isn't already, a group of Ubuntu people and will work on a game together. (An RPG if possible.) Something simple at first, but get ourselves organized so that we have people that are best in one area, working on that area. Programmers, Artists, Brainstormers!
I'm just sick of these Linux games that use the Linux theme in their game. It's cute at times, but I don't enjoy watching a Penguin killing people... And RPGs where you are Tux, on an adventure through a world (that looks like it was created on a piece of paper by a kindergardener, and scanned onto the computer). Face it, most computer users love to play games right? But we depend on the Developers who know how to create games, well most of the developers of the Linux world, program programs, not games. They lack (no offense) video game gameplay ideas and storyline. And the reason Linux is as slow as it is Developement-wise, is because these are people doing it on their free-time. We have to face that fact while dealing with something completely Free, there are consequences to that. If we really want to get serious about this, set up a community just for the linux game developement which donates money each month, just enough to keep the progress going. You have to give someone something to fight for, for them to fight at all. If not, they'll sit there, in idleness.
We need to get real here, or Windows will always be the top-notch. We don't want that do we?
Please let me know how you feel on these thoughts.
Let's just take a moment to get beyond the Workingness of the games in Linux.
Let's look at the gameplay of the games that DO run on Linux.
All of the wonderful developers are working their best at creating workable solutions for us gamers. But look at it for a moment, the great people who work on these native games and such, other than the commercial ones, lack a sense of imagination. They create these games and are great at making them run, but, from my personal experience, the games lack quality of storyline or gameplay itself.
This isn't their fault, they are doing a really good job at making the games run smooth with decent graphics (some of the time). But really, they are busy, they don't have everyone they need, helping them. The Linux game developers need to get organized! If you're going to put time on something without getting any profit, that is your choice, but don't slow the process down with ill motivation. Organize yourselves, get the people you need, set up a Org board (a board consisting of seperate departments dealing with seperate areas that in all set up a chain that links together smoothly). We need to get away from this "Getting windows games running on Linux" junk and create our own! Yeah Planeshift has some flaws, but out of most of the games so far, it has storyline to it, it gives the Fantasy feeling which is should be giving. They are more organized. Wesnoth, is good, it is cute, graphics could be better (the 2D graphics are fine, but the artwork itself could be a bit better, like smoother, similar to starcraft graphics but more detailed like AoE.)
Basically what I'm trying to say, is that we need to say screw it to the windows games, stop trying to get them to run! You're wasting time that could be spent on actually developing a good product! OpenGL has always blown D3D out of the water performance wise and I personally think the graphics quality is a lot better.
We need to set up, if there isn't already, a group of Ubuntu people and will work on a game together. (An RPG if possible.) Something simple at first, but get ourselves organized so that we have people that are best in one area, working on that area. Programmers, Artists, Brainstormers!
I'm just sick of these Linux games that use the Linux theme in their game. It's cute at times, but I don't enjoy watching a Penguin killing people... And RPGs where you are Tux, on an adventure through a world (that looks like it was created on a piece of paper by a kindergardener, and scanned onto the computer). Face it, most computer users love to play games right? But we depend on the Developers who know how to create games, well most of the developers of the Linux world, program programs, not games. They lack (no offense) video game gameplay ideas and storyline. And the reason Linux is as slow as it is Developement-wise, is because these are people doing it on their free-time. We have to face that fact while dealing with something completely Free, there are consequences to that. If we really want to get serious about this, set up a community just for the linux game developement which donates money each month, just enough to keep the progress going. You have to give someone something to fight for, for them to fight at all. If not, they'll sit there, in idleness.
We need to get real here, or Windows will always be the top-notch. We don't want that do we?
Please let me know how you feel on these thoughts.