It's written in Java, so obviously it works on Linux :þ

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So… they make you pay for wrapping those game in an emulator?

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Dishonored? oO
Why?
Where is that conclusion from?

Those are all the titles that the music group made

Spoiler, click me

Kid Charlemagne – 4:38
The Caves of Altamira – 3:33
Don't Take Me Alive – 4:16
Sign in Stranger – 4:23
The Fez (Becker, Fagen, Paul Griffin) – 4:01
Green Earrings – 4:05
Haitian Divorce – 5:51
Everything You Did – 3:55
The Royal Scam – 6:30

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Developping games on Linux is awesome because those starved penguins are going to be so grateful that they will promote you with passion, help you fix your bugs and bring many ideas to the table, as they are not zombies trapped by their OS.

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Looks like a total copy of blizzard's game. But well, I guess blizzard didn't invent it either

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I wish they release galaxy

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You are still a good hunter, young padawan

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I'd be a good hunter, because I would be the first one who starts hunting. Just like I'm the first one to comment :D

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Interesting article.
I think developpers are not earning so much for porting to Linux. And they have to deal with a system they don't know well. But I also think Linux operating system is turning quickly in the right direction about gaming, thanks to Valve.
Actually I shouldn't say Linux, because the problem isn't about the operating system itself, it has always been the popularity of it.

No user => No money to get out of it => Bad ecosystem => Lack of proprietary softwares => No user

It is mostly because of Microsoft who managed to force people and developpers to use their products.
Mac OS X isn't so much more popular to people, much more taken seriously though because there is a corporation behind and Linux seems to be made by nobody and everybody at the same time.

It seems like you need some kind of fanatism to get away from Windows. Mac users used to claim the hardware was much better and lasts longer, now it seems like the design is what do the trick, it "looks" professional, clean and cool.
The original purpose of GNU is freedom, and Linux users inherited this to different degrees. And as someone already claimed here, a big majority of Linux gamers are using proprietary softwares, at least Nvidia drivers, games, and Steam, even if some prefere to have the freedom not to use Steam if possible. I prefere to buy on gog.com because it's DRM-free for instance.

And as many said, if you have to develop on Linux and you are not familiar with it:
- include your libs in the same folder (but we'll have problem with duplicated libs, I guess we can live with this)
- use Steam's libs
- use cross-platform softwares (I think this one was too obvious)
- target a subset of popular linux distributions, such as Ubuntu (Valve did this)

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That's an instant buy at launch for me

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