Obsidian:"I don't think it was worthwhile developing [Pillars of Eternity] for Linux"

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"I don't think it was worthwhile developing for Linux," Brandon Adler, lead producer said in response to questions the team had gathered from...

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Lightworks is lightyears ahead of Cinelerra. And of every other NLE on Linux as well.

This software is really a professional editing software....

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It seems this guy is working on a native rewrite of the CRPG Arcanum game engine: http://arcanum.game-alive.com/category/openarcanum/ It is heavily work-in-progress,...

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The first distro for me was Redhat 8 -- which I installed on an old computer in order to turn it into a firewall. To be honest, I had no idea what I was...

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Done

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Their "press conference" was certainly spectacular It's not often you see conferences in which company representatives are clothed as monks,...

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There seems to be an update:



Doesn't seem to clear anything up yet. Seems like we have to wait until Wednesday to know...

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This GOG business is really weird stuff -- it isn't clear at all whether it has shut down, bought by some other company *COUGH* Valve *COUGH* or whether...

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Anyone heard of the Wintermute? It's some sort of "Engine Development Kit ... for creating and running graphical ?point&click? adventure games"....

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Even then playing with fire just because one can do it is a bit too risky-- especially if it might be the thing to scare Valve away. While this thing...

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http://ostatic.com/blog/powerful-vid...as-open-source

What is said there isn't really helping my skepticism...

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Svartalf has very good points too It's waited some time, but when my next pay check arrives, I'll certainly go and buy some Linux native games. Any...

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Crazycheese has quite many good points there. Even then, my 2 cents:

I'm running at the moment only Linux (Gentoo). Windows isn't an option...

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I'm also quite skeptical about these news. The information given is so vague that it's quite hard to even find out on which hardware/OS the program is...

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Would it be in anyway possible to obtain the rights to sell the games ported by Loki (& possibly update the src of those to work better in the contemporary...