Saturday, January 6, 2001

State of Linux Gaming 2000 -- 9:15 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Linux Games posted an editorial on the state of Linux gaming as we enter 2001. It really is an excellent, sober look at the gaming in Linux now (actually, it's one of the best editorials I've ever read on any website). It's a must-read for anyone even remotely interesting in Linux as a gaming platform.

J.t.Qbe comments: Overall it's a thorough and pretty accurate article. Unfortunately, the authors only seem to consider new and flashy games to be real: they claim that there are no (commercial) role-playing games for Linux, missing (as everyone does) the excellent game Exile III by Spiderweb Software. (Keep your eyes peeled for a review right here at The Haus!) If you actually look at the freeware games out there, you'll find a very rich array of gaming choices (Freeciv, Nethack, Angband, Empire, et al). No, they don't have the eye candy of the latest, but they do have depth, something sorely lacking in most of today's games.

Fact is, the dearth of Linux games and the low sales of existing games simply show that Linux is still a minority OS and has a long way to go. It needs a much, much larger user base to support its own gaming industry.

News for 01/06/2001

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