Leszek Godlewski announced on Twitter that he will be leaving the Linux porting business, but the news isn't that bad. One of the original coders is taking over the Linux port of Darksiders.
I'm leaving the Linux porting business, but Darksiders is in good hands — one of the original Vigil coders is taking it over from me!
— Leszek Godlewski (@TheIneQuation) November 14, 2014
It's sad, but we can't really argue with his reasoning. Working remotely has a lot of drawbacks, and it's not for everyone.
We will keep you posted when some more solid details about Darksiders comes in, until the next time folks! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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toni 19 Nov 2014
Wow, a pity, this guy is an awesome porter!
That's something I would love to do, porting games to linux.
That's something I would love to do, porting games to linux.
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Mohandevir 19 Nov 2014
Can't wait for this game to be released on Linux...
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What, he was defeated by the silly glitch ? :)
Joke aside, so sorry to hear that, especially now when we need more good porters.
I know that some are discontent with his work on Deadfall and Painkiller but I think he is (was?) good at his job.
I wonder what exactly "leaving the Linux porting business" means. I see he is leaving for The Astronauts, and they're looking into Linux too.
Joke aside, so sorry to hear that, especially now when we need more good porters.
I know that some are discontent with his work on Deadfall and Painkiller but I think he is (was?) good at his job.
I wonder what exactly "leaving the Linux porting business" means. I see he is leaving for The Astronauts, and they're looking into Linux too.
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leillo1975 19 Nov 2014
It's a Shame that Leszek leave the porting. I have doubts with this project
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EKRboi 19 Nov 2014
aww man. Sucks to lose a good porter, though I can't argue with his reasoning. His reply to HadBabits on twitter sounds good to me though! Been looking forward to this one. It's one of my good friends favorite franchises and I keep telling him I'm finally going to play it when it comes to Linux.
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adolson 19 Nov 2014
I wonder what exactly "leaving the Linux porting business" means. I see he is leaving for The Astronauts, and they're looking into Linux too.Indeed, hopefully they've poached him for Ethan Carter. Which would mean he didn't really leave the Linux porting business. I want that game...
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DamonLinuxPL 19 Nov 2014
Sad... he making good ports like Painkiller H&D and Deadfall Adventures and now making Darksiders and Darksiders 2...
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PublicNuisance 19 Nov 2014
I wonder what exactly "leaving the Linux porting business" means. I see he is leaving for The Astronauts, and they're looking into Linux too.Indeed, hopefully they've poached him for Ethan Carter. Which would mean he didn't really leave the Linux porting business. I want that game...
I would love that. I'd much rather see a Linux version of Ethan Carter than Darksiders anyway. I always found Darksiders to be a very boring game. Maybe it's just the PC version, i'm not sure.
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Cheeseness 19 Nov 2014
Joke aside, so sorry to hear that, especially now when we need more good porters.If this means that there's another studio out there with internal Linux know-how, then there's a positive side too (ultimately, I feel that the future of Linux gaming lies with people who do stuff internally) :)
I wonder what exactly "leaving the Linux porting business" means. I see he is leaving for The Astronauts, and they're looking into Linux too.When I spoke to him last week, he said he was looking forward to working with creative people on new projects. I imagine he'll help out with Linux stuff, but it sounds like he's keen to sink his teeth into something that isn't digging through other people's code for existing projects.
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When I spoke to him last week, he said he was looking forward to working with creative people on new projects. I imagine he'll help out with Linux stuff, but it sounds like he's keen to sink his teeth into something that isn't digging through other people's code for existing projects.Maybe you'll convince him to take part on one of your audiocasts someday? :)
I bet he has some interesting things to say.
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Cheeseness 19 Nov 2014
Maybe you'll convince him to take part on one of your audiocasts someday? :)Like this one? :D
I bet he has some interesting things to say.
He had some neat stuff to say, and was one of my favourite guests (they're all my favourite though). He also joined us for a Painkiller event that we had a bunch of weeks before that. Sadly, I wasn't able to make that one.
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Maybe you'll convince him to take part on one of your audiocasts someday? :)Like [this one](https://steamlug.org/cast/s02e10)? :D
I bet he has some interesting things to say.
Actually yes, that was really great, relevant questions and answers galore.
I wish more people will listen to "Unreal Engine 3 shader system is totally unfit for use with OpenGL" part so that the reasons for the long Deadfall/Painkiller loading times will be more understood.
Thanks for the audiocast, great stuff.
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Actually yes, that was really great, relevant questions and answers galore.Maybe you'll convince him to take part on one of your audiocasts someday? :)Like [this one](https://steamlug.org/cast/s02e10)? :D
I bet he has some interesting things to say.
I wish more people will listen to "Unreal Engine 3 shader system is totally unfit for use with OpenGL" part so that the reasons for the long Deadfall/Painkiller loading times will be more understood.
Thanks for the audiocast, great stuff.
Killing floor 2 uses Unreal Engine 3 and probably to maximum effect, does this mean it will have long load times ??
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It will probably depend on the amount of used shaders and whatever methods they will use to mitigate the issue.
From what I remember KF2 is made with Linux in mind from the very start and I think we'll have no problems with it.
From what I remember KF2 is made with Linux in mind from the very start and I think we'll have no problems with it.
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Cheeseness 19 Nov 2014
Thanks for the audiocast, great stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Shmerl 20 Nov 2014
When I spoke to him last week, he said he was looking forward to working with creative people on new projects. I imagine he'll help out with Linux stuff, but it sounds like he's keen to sink his teeth into something that isn't digging through other people's code for existing projects.
CD Projekt Red should hire him to work on porting REDengine to Linux ;)
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FutureSuture 20 Nov 2014
That would be too good to be true. All we are getting is eON for now.When I spoke to him last week, he said he was looking forward to working with creative people on new projects. I imagine he'll help out with Linux stuff, but it sounds like he's keen to sink his teeth into something that isn't digging through other people's code for existing projects.CD Projekt RED should hire him to work on porting REDengine to Linux ;)
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toni 20 Nov 2014
CD Projekt Red should hire him to work on porting REDengine to Linux ;)I'm pretty sure he would love to work on an engine "with linux in mind", and not only porting, even when it was on a not yet released game :)
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Shmerl 20 Nov 2014
CD Projekt Red should hire him to work on porting REDengine to Linux ;)I'm pretty sure he would love to work on an engine "with linux in mind", and not only porting, even when it was on a not yet released game :)
REDengine has unreleased games - Witcher 2 and Cyberpunk 2077. CDPR just didn't show any eagerness to add Linux support to their engine yet.
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titi 20 Nov 2014
I think there are not many people out there who have the skills to do linux ports. This is a much more difficult/annoying work than making games for linux or crossplattform! You dig around in other peoples code and I am sure you see horrible things there. Only very few people can stand this for long and make things work the way he did it.
So Leszek Godlewski is indeed a very big loss for linux gaming :( . Lets hope he does at least something heavily linux gaming related now. But maybe his work will encourage other skilled linux developers to join the porting circus for a while in the future.
So Leszek Godlewski is indeed a very big loss for linux gaming :( . Lets hope he does at least something heavily linux gaming related now. But maybe his work will encourage other skilled linux developers to join the porting circus for a while in the future.
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