lwn.net — Sixth Floor Labs LLC, a Linux game development company, has launched their business today. Founded by Ethan Glasser-Camp and Carl Li, the company aims to improve Linux's desktop feasibility through the creation of high-quality games.
Nov 6, 2007 View in Crawl 4
jimminykriketNov 8, 2007
Ok, You simply cannot release a 2d top down game, and then say your "creating high quality game for linux". You got peoples hopes up. When everyone read that fancy letter they thought "YES, AN OPENGL FPS/MMORPG/RTS. WE WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO SHOW WINDOWS USERS WHERE ITS AT." And then we looked at the screens. You got our hopes up, and then crushed them.Now we are pissed and probably making you feel bad about your game. I'm sorry. But if you had any idea of the gaming market you wouldn't have published this at all.You seem to kinda get that we are pissed, asking what kind of art style we want which is nice. But no art style will make this game popular or "bring high quality games to linux". Unless its 3d and can actually compare to some of the stuff out there it isnt going to help anything. The point of this (I believe) was to bring interest into the linux gaming world and show developers what linux is capable of. This does neither. Reason? Its not better than anything out right now. Including free games. There are a trillion free games for linux that rape this hands down, and they arent even close to bridging the gap between windows and linux. Project Alexandria or Crysis. Its your call.3D IS a viable solution right now. Drivers are getting better all the time.I can run counter-strike flawlessly through wine. Dont try and tell me the drivers aren't stable enough. Its apparent from your game that neither of you are capable of making a 3d game, or else you would have done it. Thats fine, just dont lie about it.Im sorry if I offended you in any way, Im sure I did, I would have been offended. But the only reason I actually took time to rant like this is because you tried to take money. I understand that its an effort to show gaming companies that linux is a viable market. And I think sometime in the future there will be a decent amount of games that will run on linux like ut,nww, etc. But what your doing is a hobby. Two friends making a top down shooter is not a gaming company. Get some computers, get some coders and modelers and graphic artists. Learn openGL then come back With something that people might actually pay for. Until then stop trying to be a big linux revolution. It just isnt working.
brianaryNov 8, 2007
Dude, who are you implying hasn't formed their opinion validly? How do you even know?(f**king digg comment system: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/programming/WTF_Your_session_has_expired_please_refresh_the_page_before_commenting">http://digg.com/programming/WTF_Your_session_has_e ...</a> .)
cynicistNov 10, 2007
Atari's idiotic plan to port NWN2 to the 360 ruined my chance of enjoying it. I take solace knowing they rushed it and released a bug ridden POS. I will never buy a game associated with them.
rattelerNov 11, 2007
I love Inkscape, and use it almost exclusively now. I only go back to Illustrator to save .ai files as SVG.But it has no animation tools, so it's a far cry from a competitor to FLASH.
normaldaveDec 6, 2007
Ever hear of a game called "n"? It's very basic and a flash game, but it rocks. If you're interested, I suggest downloading it:<a class="user" href="http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/downloads.html">http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/downloads.html</a>You have to have something playing for sound so that the game can't try to use its own sound. It was made with Flash 6 or something stupid like that and doesn't handle alsa or anything good.Anyway, this game that I'm advertising here is much better. It has very basic graphics and unbelievably high system requirements considering what the game looks like. It was very difficult to play on a 1GHZ computer running Windows (and it works well in Windows). It is still a better game. Oh, yeah. I almost forgot. It came out in 2003 or 2004. It made me fail my Shakespeare class.The game made by Sixth Floor (or whatever their wasted trademark is) happens to be one of the worst attempts at writing a game I have ever seen. Good graphics aren't everything. Puzzle Pirates is a decent example of a good game with sub-normal 2007 graphics. Bookworm Adventures is also a very good game, but it doesn't have anything to complex for graphics. The problem is that the concept is boring and the only thing to die in its execution is the game itself.I'd hate to bury anything relating to Linux (an operating system/a passion) but this just needs to disappear. It only helps ignorant FUD-lovers believe that Linux takes your computer back in time 20 years. I'd rather play breakout on an atari.
shoerobNov 11, 2008
FAIL.