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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Quoting: artvandelay440Well, I mean if we're shooting for the stars here, I'd knock on CDPR's door with a whole big box of apology and ask/beg is there's any way they'd consider The Witcher 3 being ported to Linux by this fine fellow.I'm not about to apologize to CDPR or VP for anything, I didn't threaten anyone and all my feedback (to VP) was respectful and meant to help fix issues. I won't presume to speak on behalf of the bad eggs.
As for games I'd like ported, Nier: Automata will always be right at the top of my list until it does get ported.
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A hat in time please. They were having trouble with a linux version I believe.
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Quoting: LeopardNot that third party thing solutions.
Fine, but since he isn't doing it to get paid, what's the difference? As long as it works well.
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Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: LeopardNot that third party thing solutions.
Fine, but since he isn't doing it to get paid, what's the difference? As long as it works well.
Because ( at least i think ) he wants to help Linux gaming a little bit more.
That can be provided with ports have Linux sign near them on stores , not with Wine development.
Wine is John Carmack's solution offer for Linux gaming. Playing games with various hacks.
But Linux needs standart " click and install " people even more , since you can't be a competitor without them ; because they're the market.
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Quoting: LeopardBecause ( at least i think ) he wants to help Linux gaming a little bit more.
Making a high quality FOSS DX11 → Vulkan wrapper can help Linux gaming a lot more than porting a single title. In result, it would be easier to port games for those who can't rewrite the engine. With all the downsides of John Carmack's solution, Feral and the like aren't much different in what they are doing. They don't rewrite engines, they just wrap them. Could be on source level, but it's still a wrapper, and it's an OK solution as I said for those who can't rewrite the engine.
I don't expect Feral to make such wrappers open, but development funded by Patreon sounds like the perfect opportunity for it.
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Well, I will say it again. I'm not into League of Legends or any Blizzard games, but if some of those games got a Linux port, I'm sure a lot of people will start playing on Linux, that would be very good for increase our community of gamers.
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Last edited by gustavoyaraujo on 21 August 2017 at 6:03 pm UTC
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GustyGhost Aug 21, 2017
Quoting: titiI would not suggest a special game, but maybe he can help all those unreal engine games which have trouble with their linux version. For example "Ark survival" which often has horrible graphics glitches.
No, these people are big boys and girls and they should be responsible for their own work which they already started. It would be a shame to normalize the attitude that the Linux community will automagically fix every lazily crafted software.
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@Liam, sharing is not working, is it? (Via Twitter) Looks strange in FF at least.
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Skyrim and Elite Dangerous :-). More realistically can we get duck game and scrap mechanic please?
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