Unity 4 Game Engine Has Native Linux Support

[TobiSGD]

Too bad it is a proprietary game engine.

source or gtfo!

May be you volunteer to write a comparable open source engine?

[EvilTwin]

I think some of you guys would complain if they hung you with a brand new rope.

don't get me wrong
it's awesome they are doing this
and having linux support as a target-platform may mean a port of the editor sometime in the future
but still kind of sad (stupid headlines and expectations while reading them )

[entropy]

An open noose only gets problematic when it closes.

[johnc]

I think some of you guys would complain if they hung you with a brand new rope.

Is it a proprietary rope or is it a rope based on open standards?

[Larian]

I think some of you guys would complain if they hung you with a brand new rope.

[uid313]

Too bad

Too bad it is a proprietary game engine.

source or gtfo!

[devius]

Just a tiny little problem with the linux "support": it's not possible to develop with Unity on linux...

[EvilTwin]

so only the a way to deploy games -> no editor
who wants to play games when creating them is so much more fun?^^

[TobiSGD]

Lesson to take away from this: don't spam engine with polls from users, spam games with polls from users (and fund them!) because games demanding platform support in this case was more effective.

Exactly, having an engine is only one half of the game (pun intended). We have game engines for years (id1/2/3/4, Unreal 1/2/3, Unigine) and more coming, like Unity or C4, but we haven't seen some really good games with that (read: AAA).

[Vadi]

Lesson to take away from this: don't spam engine with polls from users, spam games with polls from users (and fund them!) because games demanding platform support in this case was more effective.