xnsine
June 26th, 2009, 10:09 PM
Hi, a few weeks ago, I started an online petition to convince Bohemia Interactive Studios, the developers of such games as Operation Flashpoint and ArmA 1 and 2, to allow a 3rd party company to port their flagship games to Linux. I'm trying to gather enough support among both the Linux and the ArmA gaming communities so as to build a compelling enough reason for convincing BiS that a linux port would be a good idea. The petition is right here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/saf3509/petition.html
Please sign it!
Now, I know you probably will say, but online petitions don't accomplish anything. Yes, that's what I think too, but in my opinion, this case is a little different. I was able to talk to an official representative of BiS before, and despite their lack of enthusiasm regarding the possibility of a linux port of their games, if enough support is shown to them about this, they might change. Besides that, I have contacts with a company called Linux Game Publishing, which ports games to the linux system, who would be doing the actual porting work. They are very much interested in porting the BiS games to Linux.
Another reason why I think this is different, is because I'm asking for suggestions here to everyone in this board, on ways to get this working. I've been going around the different ArmA/BiS games, and there's been so far a lot of enthusiasm for this effort, but I think probably there needs to be another angle to tackle this from. So, I'm asking you guys, do you have any suggestions as to bringing both Linux gaming communities as well as ArmA/tactical FPS/Bis gaming communities together to show their interest?
thanks!
http://www.petitiononline.com/saf3509/petition.html
Please sign it!
Now, I know you probably will say, but online petitions don't accomplish anything. Yes, that's what I think too, but in my opinion, this case is a little different. I was able to talk to an official representative of BiS before, and despite their lack of enthusiasm regarding the possibility of a linux port of their games, if enough support is shown to them about this, they might change. Besides that, I have contacts with a company called Linux Game Publishing, which ports games to the linux system, who would be doing the actual porting work. They are very much interested in porting the BiS games to Linux.
Another reason why I think this is different, is because I'm asking for suggestions here to everyone in this board, on ways to get this working. I've been going around the different ArmA/BiS games, and there's been so far a lot of enthusiasm for this effort, but I think probably there needs to be another angle to tackle this from. So, I'm asking you guys, do you have any suggestions as to bringing both Linux gaming communities as well as ArmA/tactical FPS/Bis gaming communities together to show their interest?
thanks!