Ryan "Icculus" Gordon [Official Site, Twitter], the man responsible for maintaining many development tools like SDL 2 and who ported many games to Linux, is looking for new games to port. The fun thing is, he doesn't require payment since he's funded by his Patreon.
He's had contracts with Valve, Epic Games, Activision, Google, Crytek and plenty more. He has a lot of awesome work under his belt!
From his new post:
This is a pretty interesting way to get Linux ports done. Ryan has hit over $750 a month on Patreon now, so any ports he does as a result of this directly, will be funded by his Patreon, not the original game developer.
I've seen the discussion of crowdfunding Linux ports come up here and there, but this is one of the times that it might work. So, if you know any, send the developer to him and we may see more Linux games get ported as a result.
Will be very fun to see what comes out of this. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
He's had contracts with Valve, Epic Games, Activision, Google, Crytek and plenty more. He has a lot of awesome work under his belt!
From his new post:
Quote[…]If there's a developer that you think would be interested in getting a Linux port done by a guy that they don't have to pay, let me know. Hell, let them know about me! Let's see if we can get some conversations going with some developers that are sitting on the fence!
This is a pretty interesting way to get Linux ports done. Ryan has hit over $750 a month on Patreon now, so any ports he does as a result of this directly, will be funded by his Patreon, not the original game developer.
I've seen the discussion of crowdfunding Linux ports come up here and there, but this is one of the times that it might work. So, if you know any, send the developer to him and we may see more Linux games get ported as a result.
Will be very fun to see what comes out of this. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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natewardawg Aug 22, 2017
Looking at the recent reviews, it looks like No Man's Sky is actually becoming a very good game. So, I'll put that on the list too :)
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doomiebaby Aug 22, 2017
Rising Storm / Red Orchestra 2
Depth
Doom 2016
Any of the Final Fantasy games, but especially 7, 8 and 9
Age of Empires 2 HD
Sonic Generations
Sonic & All-stars Racing Transformed
Any and all of the SEGA Dreamcast ports to PC
Killing Floor 2
The LEGO games
Grim Dawn
A man can dream :P
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Doom 2016
Any of the Final Fantasy games, but especially 7, 8 and 9
Age of Empires 2 HD
Sonic Generations
Sonic & All-stars Racing Transformed
Any and all of the SEGA Dreamcast ports to PC
Killing Floor 2
The LEGO games
Grim Dawn
A man can dream :P
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If this was mumsnet I would understand.Sorry to disappoint, but gamingonlinux.com might not be the bro cave you are looking for. We're not just gamers, but a diverse bunch of human beings with varied interests and opinions, and you've been here long enough to know that.
I hesitated a bit before taking this thread even more off topic, but most of the comments were already pointless wishlists nobody asked for so why not.
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Serious recommendation, how about Thea: The Awakening?
They've got a Linux build in their beta branch on Steam, but aren't willing to go ahead because there's only one programmer so they don't have the resources to fix the remaining issues, including multiplayer. Here's what the dev said today:
Sounds like just the thing for Mr. Gordon's talents.
They've got a Linux build in their beta branch on Steam, but aren't willing to go ahead because there's only one programmer so they don't have the resources to fix the remaining issues, including multiplayer. Here's what the dev said today:
There were a couple technical issues with non-windows platforms and having only one programmer on the team, we just didn't have the resources to spend on trying to figure out what is wrong. At this point it's hard to say if Thea 2 will release on Mac/Linux, we'll of course do what we can to include these platforms. We may possibly make it available for testing just as we did with T1.
Sounds like just the thing for Mr. Gordon's talents.
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appetrosyan Aug 22, 2017
I'd like Wolfenstein: the new Colossus.
Doom could follow.
Doom could follow.
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MintedGamer Aug 23, 2017
I think some people who are talking about Mr. Gordon doing things like contribute to Wine or fixing problems with Unreal engine or whatnot are missing the mark a bit. Coders are not universal tools. Ryan Gordon is very experienced and expert at porting games to Linux; there may well be nobody in the world who is better. That does not make him experienced and expert at any and all computing tasks. He's a smart man and could no doubt learn any of those other things, but spending time on those learning curves, unless he happens to have "caught the bug" on one of them, would not be the best use of his time and expertise.
Other people who know Wine can hack Wine, he can port games.
You are absolutely right, I just thought if he knew some of the pitfalls and challenges of porting with Unreal Engine having worked with Epic and UE before, maybe he could help directly with the Engine and toolsets to make it easier long term for himself and others, just a thought I had, and as you say it may not be his forte and his talents may be better elsewhere, I like others was just speculating on what I thought might be an interesting project :)
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slaapliedje Aug 23, 2017
I think some people who are talking about Mr. Gordon doing things like contribute to Wine or fixing problems with Unreal engine or whatnot are missing the mark a bit. Coders are not universal tools. Ryan Gordon is very experienced and expert at porting games to Linux; there may well be nobody in the world who is better. That does not make him experienced and expert at any and all computing tasks. He's a smart man and could no doubt learn any of those other things, but spending time on those learning curves, unless he happens to have "caught the bug" on one of them, would not be the best use of his time and expertise.
Other people who know Wine can hack Wine, he can port games.
You are absolutely right, I just thought if he knew some of the pitfalls and challenges of porting with Unreal Engine having worked with Epic and UE before, maybe he could help directly with the Engine and toolsets to make it easier long term for himself and others, just a thought I had, and as you say it may not be his forte and his talents may be better elsewhere, I like others was just speculating on what I thought might be an interesting project :)
Again, I point out that Unreal Engine has Linux support, yes even in the latest version, you can even download the Unreal Tournament 4 test.
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-4-and-linux
https://github.com/UTAwesome/UTLauncher
Speaking of coders not being universal tools, I hit up a co-worker today because I knew he'd done some kernel development if he knew anything about video capture devices (I bought a great one but found out Linux doesn't quite see it). He kind of laughed at me, since he'd done some network device code and some other embedded work, but not much to do with libusb and video capture. I asked him in jest anyhow, but really that's the great thing about Linux, so much knowledge out there that it's quite possible that someone somewhere could just one day pop up with a driver for the Startech USB3HDCAP... *hint hint*
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Sonic
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Stronghold
Thief
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Yakaza
Batman: Arkham
Bioshock (1/2/Remastered)
Chip's Challenge
Civilization 1-4
Cossacks
Crysis
Dark Souls
Deus Ex
Dishonored
Dragon Age
Elder Scrolls
Fallout
Gauntlet
Grim Dawn
Incredible adventures of Van-Helsing
King's quest
L.A Noire
Mass Effect
Prince of Persia
Rayman
Sims (Farm, ant, earth, tower, city, etc)
Sniper Elite
Sonic
Space quest
Stronghold
Thief
Tomb Raider
Yakaza
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doomiebaby Aug 23, 2017
Here's a crazy idea that might be useful to a lot of people: what if, like our system specs, we could choose linux wishlist titles, maybe from a preexisting list to keep it consistent, and keep it attached to our profiles? It'd be really interesting to see the numbers, and what games get voted top (apart from the usual doom 2016 and witcher and skyrim). Kind of a live perma-poll...
I also can't wait to read why it's a stupid and terrible idea. This oughtta be interesting.
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I also can't wait to read why it's a stupid and terrible idea. This oughtta be interesting.
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Id like Star Trek online please, the only game thats keeping me dual booting. Keep my fingers crossed.
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Icculus responds to the response to his post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/yall-are-amazing-14003747
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I didn't know he had a patreon! everyone go give him money! (after GOL obvi)
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This reminds me…
"I can't wait for some Linux programmer guy to e-mail me and say "I'll port this for free", because I already have the e-mail already written that I'm going to send back to him, and basically tell him to fuck off, indefinitely."Is this proposal still intact?
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solar_dome Aug 23, 2017
I would like to see GRIP on linux.
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The Elex developers are open to a Linux version of Elex, but they're reluctant due to having no experience with the platform.
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Ryan Gordon can do something similar, and for example implement high quality FOSS DX11 → Vulkan translation layer, that would make it even better.
Not a bad idea. Since Gallium10 or 11 will likely never be a thing (thanks Nvidia). And, theoretically, D3D-to-Vulkan wrappers could be better, performance-wise, than D3D-to-OpenGL.
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The Elex developers are open to a Linux version of Elex, but they're reluctant due to having no experience with the platform.
Never heard of that one. THQ Nordic as publisher should not be a problem either. In-house DirectX engine, so will probably be a challenge to port. Could be interesting for someone with his experience.
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