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Well known (and basically a legend) Linux game porter Ryan 'Icculus' Gordon is looking for new titles to port to Linux.

After recently porting the revamp of Turok to Linux and with him hinting (practically confirmed in his latest post…) that Turok 2 is also coming to Linux, he recently posted a new update on Patreon and this bit caught my eye:

Also: I need more games to port. I have a bunch of maybes floating out there, but pretty soon I'm going to need definite yeses to work on. If you know someone in need, send them my way please.

For those who aren't too clued up, Icculus has ported so many games to Linux and other platforms it's really hard to keep track. He's worked with Valve, Epic Games, Activision, EA and many other big companies over the years. He's also helped port quite a number of indie games, so he has a long and beautiful track record.

He's also one of the people working on SDL2, something used by a lot of games across many different platforms. Honestly, I could go on all day about things he's either made, helped maintain or ported to other platforms.

If you're a developer and want to see your game on Linux, it's probably worth getting in touch, especially as he's funded by his own Patreon so he's not likely to eat into your sales. Find him on Twitter, Patreon and his official site with a proper email link.

Note: To be clear, this is not the time to spam him directly asking him to port specific games. A better option, would be to speak to developers directly and send them to him. Also, try to be realistic with who you speak to, but you never know…

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Grimfist Jun 11, 2018
Quoting: KimyrielleBeing my brutally honest self...thanks, but we don't need yet another garage game on Linux. We got a few thousand of these. What's Turok anyway? What we need at this point are AAA titles. Stuff that makes people go "Wow, you Penguin people can play THAT???" Icculus is a human porting machine who can get anything ported you throw at him. His talents are completely wasted porting B list games. Again, what's Turok? Somebody go convince Bethesda or a company like it to let him have a go at their back catalog. Please?
Actually, I have to fully agree with you on that. Icculus Talents really are wasted on such projects. Give him some real games!
ageres Jun 11, 2018
Quoting: KimyrielleBeing my brutally honest self...thanks, but we don't need yet another garage game on Linux. We got a few thousand of these. What's Turok anyway? What we need at this point are AAA titles. Stuff that makes people go "Wow, you Penguin people can play THAT???" Icculus is a human porting machine who can get anything ported you throw at him. His talents are completely wasted porting B list games. Again, what's Turok? Somebody go convince Bethesda or a company like it to let him have a go at their back catalog. Please?
I read somewhere that after spending a year on Rocket League port he decided to handle only small games. It's too time-consuming for a one man team to port a modern AAA game.
afettouhi Jun 11, 2018
Wings: Remastered. They hit the Linux goal in their Kickstarter and the promise was to making the source code available to porters in order to a Linux port. Today there even is a Amiga OS version!
Aryvandaar Jun 11, 2018
The Wttcher 3. Crazy big project if so, and I'm not convinved it will ever happen, but still, I can hope.
Liothe Jun 11, 2018
Quoting: KimyrielleBeing my brutally honest self...thanks, but we don't need yet another garage game on Linux. We got a few thousand of these. What's Turok anyway? What we need at this point are AAA titles. Stuff that makes people go "Wow, you Penguin people can play THAT???" Icculus is a human porting machine who can get anything ported you throw at him. His talents are completely wasted porting B list games. Again, what's Turok? Somebody go convince Bethesda or a company like it to let him have a go at their back catalog. Please?

Turok
rustybroomhandle Jun 11, 2018
How about the entire Spiderweb Software back catalogue?
Eike Jun 11, 2018
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Quoting: LiotheTurok

Now I'm surprised. Wasn't there an Amiga(?) game with a similar name?
Liothe Jun 11, 2018
Quoting: Eike
Quoting: LiotheTurok

Now I'm surprised. Wasn't there an Amiga(?) game with a similar name?

I couldn't say. Just remember playing it on the N64 as a kid!
musojon74 Jun 11, 2018
Quoting: AryvandaarThe Wttcher 3. Crazy big project if so, and I'm not convinved it will ever happen, but still, I can hope.

I know someone who could make that happen. Had a nice drink with him in the pub a while back. You know who you are. Most of us Linux peeps are very cool and love your ports
Ehvis Jun 11, 2018
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How expected and completely useless all these responses with games people wish for are. That doesn't help him at all. He needs devs or at least people with connections to devs. Unfortunately, I can't help him in that regard.
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