Questions For Ryan Gordon, The Linux Game Porter

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Questions For Ryan Gordon, The Linux Game Porter

Tomorrow at Chicago's Flourish conference, Ryan Gordon will be speaking about gaming on Linux. This well known Linux developer also known as "Icculus" has single-handedly ported many games and other applications to Linux and Mac OS X. He is certainly well known within the Linux gaming community with the Unreal Tournament titles among his credits. I'll be talking with him tomorrow and here's some of the questions I'll try to get answered...

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[d2kx]

Where do you see OpenGL's relevance in 3-5 years compared to today?

[Remco]

Do you think it's possible to create high quality open source games? And how?
Do you still like Linux people?
Is the porting business going well?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the desktop, console and mobile platforms?
What about the web as a gaming platform (WebGL)?

[devius]

"No, seriously. What happened to UT3?"

[Shining Arcanine]

• What needs to happen for game developers to develop titles for Linux themselves so that he does not need to port them anymore?
• Is he supportive of a world where he doesn't need to port titles to Linux anymore?