It was enough just that Valve say «I itch and I want to get to Linux»For news about games and developments featured in Linux to start pouring in.
Now is the company Unity (the 3D game engine) that talks about reaching Linux. They announce it themselves here, and they say that the future of Unity 4 is coming to Linux.
It’s not for less, Source, the engine of Valve It should already be more than halfway to completing its migration and with it many interesting games will arrive. When done Unity 4 support Linux it is going to allow that many games can also migrate (including those that are in Steam) or to create new developments.
I already said it a long time ago here., the arrival of Steam a Linux brings more than just games and although for the moment the gamer world in Linux start to see a revolution, we will soon see a torrent of new drivers NVIDIA y AMD the penguin.
We have everything served, it is only a matter of time before we see AAA games on our platform and a growing role in many strata of the mainstream. I want to see how they keep making excuses that in Linux you can't have AAA games ... for now.
It remains for you guys, what do the gamers think?
As a gift I leave you a couple of images of Unity 3 running in Linux specifically with the shadowgun game.
Source: Very linux
Thanks for the news nano I like your post you always have something interesting to contribute.
This is really interesting to finally be able to play as they should in Linux 🙂
It would be great to be able to play as God intended on Linux. Anyway, what I hope before this is a better development of the graphics drivers. I have a machine with an HD5770 and it is not able to move the Gnome Shell fluently, it is a shame ...
Whoops! It was time!..
I wonder what kind of license the UNITY 4 will have ...
Because C4 engine, apart from being proprietary, is paid. There is no free version ...
Let's see if UDK follows the same example ...
The stupid Crytek have already made it clear that they don't want anything to do with GNU / LINUx ..
They don't even want to open the source code of the OBSOLETE Cryengine1, a contemporary open source IdTech4 engine.
Fuck it, we already have the IdTech4 and I've always been a fan of karmack's work, that guy has always been a friend of Linux xD
And I ask them what is playing as God intended? As far as I know, playing as God intended is having fun, and I do that with many games that I already have on Linux.
This will simply bring more games of different graphic qualities or with better investments.
I think they were referring to the «native», but your point is much more important, and that is what it is about, having fun, for example, I already find it much more fun to play with supertuxkart than some FPS
but in the end it's a matter of taste, and if you like to battle and cry for not having Linux support ... good for you xD
I think it would be: run DX11 natively and take better advantage of the "Tessellation" that nvidia uses.
DirectX will never come to Linux, and I don't think it's really necessary either.
According to me, playing as God intended is not having to struggle to install a game and being able to stay glued to the game for 40 hours, without any errors.
Well, it only happens to you, because the only game that has screwed me is Dofus in 64bits
If Counter-Strike Source, Killing Floor or League of Leyends ran me with the same fluidity that it runs on my Windows partition, I would not have said partition.
Unfortunately for me, on my OpenArena laptop it runs at 7 frames per seconds while on Windows it runs at 100. This happens when you buy hardware without knowing that you will enter the Linux world 🙁
Everything that is from Valve or with the Source engine is going to come natively to Linux, by all means things like:
Portal 1 and 2.
Left 4 dead 1 and 2.
Counterstrike.
Team Fortress.
That's what I understand from the games that will land on Linux with Steam.
Besides that, it seems that DoTa2 is going to come to Linux for obvious reasons ... one of the most recognized Free to play games worldwide and with more clones than hell (HoN, LoL) needs to cover as much ground as possible and HoN already runs natively on Linux (verified by me) so they have to eat some of the cake because LoL already clearly said that they would NOT make versions for Linux, but they are going to have to swallow their words.
I'm looking to change hardware xD
I will continue to prefer Ogre3D ...
Ogre3D is not a game engine but a 3D library that is used to create games.
Unity 3D is straight out a complete game engine.
The interesting thing with this move, more than the simple interest of developing games FOR linux (which as nano showed us, it is already possible), is to develop games WITH linux.
This will be a greater incentive for small developers, who are not going to pay a lot of money for licenses for "professional" programs in Winbug or MacOSX, and who have no problem using things like Blender. In addition, they will have the possibility of using a cheaper platform, and I think more stable to develop their games.
I have not developed games in linux, it is because most SDKs work on win / mac, but with this move, more than one will encourage developing things with Unity3D. Of course, I don't think the games that come out with this will be free, but the important thing is that they can be played; D
You have to see how things are done, I have already found some VERY interesting 2D game engines and some 3D that look valuable, but it never hurts to have variety ...
For my part, I want to dedicate myself to 2D games, they are one of my favorites in matters of interest, but it depends on each person.
Thank you very much for the nano information. Personally, I don't care about the graphics, as long as the game goes smoothly and I have a perfect time.
It was time.
This program is great together with blender.
What a revolution this is fucking news, now if I get the juice out of my card and I have to remove windows that I only have to play
This, coupled with the launch of Steam, can have quite an interesting ripple effect.
Personally, I hope that thanks to these releases the manufacturers of the main graphics cards will get the batteries.
And of course if valve has in front of those indie games that reached 5 million and they realized that the people who support Linux are the ones who pay the best hahaha, it's the ironic thing, valve says I want my slice, this good too I hope they get Magicka for Linux and its expansions for me was one of the best games, I would even love that Torchlight 2 was also natively ported for Linux, those are the kinds of games that are worth supporting or buying.
This is the best news in the world !!
I recently played Shadow gun on my iphone 4s and it is an unmissable game I just hope to see it in Linux soon to see how it works since in the iphone I burn the graphics and the XD processor
Hopefully with the arrival of games on Linux, the graphics modules will also begin to improve
regards
best video drivers.
urray!
A question. Being Unity, it only targets Ubuntu users? I'm on Fedora 17. Excuse the ignorance. Thank you.
Unity is not the Shell for GNOME made by Canonical but Unity, a 3D engine made by I don't know who (nor do I know which "known" game has been made with it).
But although chance in the name has nothing to do with it, in any case it cannot be ruled out that it is only for Ubuntu (or for Fedora, etc) because that would depend on the company that develops it or not to support how many distros.
It is an SDK, so in no way can it be for a specific distro 🙂
Thanks for the answers @nano and @Ares 🙂
Well, I have commented here that I only use windows and not linux because I am a gamer…. when I see my favorite games on linux ... Goodbye windows .... I have never seen my pc move as fast as when I install linux.
That I am gamar and that is why I use Windows is trite. I am a gamer and I have not used Windows for two years.
I think the correct thing is to say "I use windows because I like Windows games"
nano don't be a fanboy, although you are right in the concept: gamer can be anyone regardless of the OS, I can play minesweeper, MAME, Street Fighter 3 emulated, etc. But the big titles run on Windows whether we like it or not. Linux is not the best platform to play games ... for now.
I disagree, I'll explain why.
First of all, the great titles… What is a great title? Modern Warfire 3? Halo? I am one of those who defends the concept of Gamer and good games, not as something based on a platform but on a level of quality and dedication.
Something that a game must do is entertain you and catch you, make you feel excited and I am sorry but many new games that come out do not vitiate me for two days.
Assassin's Creed I have passed them all because I like the concept and the game mechanics, but at the story level it is not too good and it is still linear.
Crysis strikes me as total garbage. Stunning graphics, but nothing more.
Nowadays games, or at least many of them want to be very attached to realism, but at least that does not interest me because if I want to play, it is to escape from reality and do things that I cannot do, if I really want to, I go to bed with my girlfriend or I get into fists with someone on the street xD
What's more, the real big titles are on consoles like NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, N64, PlayStation 1 and 2 ...
As are Final fantasy (all until 7).
Mario.
sonic.
Against.
Donkey Cong Country.
Zelda (each and every one of them).
We also have great computer titles like Doom, Quake, Dukenukem, Rome total war.
And nowadays there are also extremely interesting computer games that are not necessarily "AAA" but that without a doubt their quality surpasses those games, and by the way, they are played on Linux ... Bastion, Gish, Limbo, Penumbra, Trine, Shadowgrounds, all very entertaining, well made, indies and native games on Linux ...
I'm sorry but I can't help but clarify (every time I have the opportunity) that being a gamer is necessarily linked to Windows or some platform, including Linux ... being a gamer is simply a passion for playing, and that depends on you and not on the platform or of "the great titles"
Your position is clear and there are great emulated games, especially Snes that are incredible. But it is one thing to defend the gamer concept and another to deny that Windows is an excellent AAA gaming platform.
We can enter the battle of graphics vs gameplay, the games before were better, current creative crisis. HTML 5 vs Flash. Pc vs console, Nvidia vs ati, etc.
Leaving this topic there are interesting points to highlight if in the future Linux grows as a gaming platform:
* What are Nvidia / Ati going to do with their drivers?
* Free software lovers would play at Valve? Would they buy Skyrim?
Touching the two points you mention.
What will Nvidia and AMD (no longer Ati xD) do with their drivers?
Simple, improve them. They will be forced to do so as the demand for quality drivers rises as games will improve their graphics capabilities.
In addition, as an interesting fact we have that the development of OpenGL and OpenCL is going to grow greatly, we are going to see greater integration of GEGL in programs such as GIMP and Inkscape and therefore, a more marked requirement to the graphics cards that are going to have to use quality controllers.
Would free software lovers play on Steam? Would they buy Skyrim?
Well, first of all, I don't know if Skyrim comes to Linux xD ... but this makes your idea count ...
I am a lover of Free software and Open Source, and in fact, we are this type of user who pay more for the things we use because we understand that the effort is worth it.
I do not care too much if the game is free, paid or free as long as it does not represent a danger to my data and privacy. In any case, the danger to my privacy would be Valve who would have my account number and credit card because I would use their system to buy games, but the game itself is just a game ...
It is a very, very deep question that I would like to investigate and deal with more thoroughly, discuss in some forums and then see if somehow with that information I can make a well-founded article, but it will not be now, for these things I need one or two months of feedback in different places ...
Great! Right at work we started talking about programming video games in GNU / Linux with this engine when the 3D design leader told us about this. 🙂
I find the changes of this type great .. in the past I finish taking W .. I only have it to play. It has always seemed stupid to me when they say that it is not business to make games for Linux, the same as HW manufacturers, with silly excuses that they don't make Linux drivers. If I were a manufacturer, I would like to sell as much as possible, therefore I would support multiple platforms, in order to sell more. But I have always thought that there is a "black hand" in the subject, needless to say from where ... well. I'm glad they finally take Linux for what it is: a real and excellent alternative to "embedded" Windows. I look forward to when the first games of these companies come out .. and on the other hand as you mentioned, I hope that the HW manufacturers will also throw away the "bribes" and play it for the world. Regards.
It costs money to program for each platform (even if it's just porting from Windows to Linux). Many video game developers do not see it convenient to invest in a platform that may not be profitable. Luckily that seems to be changing soon.
It's very good but I don't know how I can play it
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