Linux game porter Ryan 'Icculus' Gordon is looking for new games to bring to Linux

Quoting: musojon74I know someone who could make that happen. Had a nice drink with him in the pub a while back. You know who you are. Most of us Linux peeps are very cool and love your ports

I have no idea who it is. I've been out of the Linux gaming loop for a while.

Quoting: EhvisHow expected and completely useless all these responses with games people wish for are. That doesn't help him at all. He needs devs or at least people with connections to devs. Unfortunately, I can't help him in that regard.

I thought the point of the comment section for the articles was for people to discuss things related to the article. It's not off topic for people to talk about what games they wish had a good port.

Quoting: Aryvandaar

Quoting: musojon74I know someone who could make that happen. Had a nice drink with him in the pub a while back. You know who you are. Most of us Linux peeps are very cool and love your ports

We need the name :)

Quoting: AryvandaarIt's not off topic for people to talk about what games they wish had a good port.

I would move on step beyond: It's important as a community to discuss within GOL our wishes and aggregate a clear message for the developers, one or two games that would make the consensus (vote in Liam award session? something like "Best desired port") to be argued in lobbying sessions. A sort of kickstarter backward: people would like to see this and that, and deposit a promise to purchase if this is done.

Knights of the Old Republic I
Sam & Max Hit the Road
The Secret of the Monkey Island 1-4
X-Wing Alliance
The Witcher 3
Cuphead

Skyrim? Maybe? No seriously please? Bethesda why you do this?

Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääKnights of the Old Republic I
Sam & Max Hit the Road
The Secret of the Monkey Island 1-4
X-Wing Alliance
The Witcher 3
Cuphead

Sam & Max hit the road and the three first monkey island games work in scummvm although I believe the remakes don't. You can get sam&max and curse of monkey island on gog, but I don't know if anyone sell the original MI and MI2.

Quoting: AryvandaarI thought the point of the comment section for the articles was for people to discuss things related to the article. It's not off topic for people to talk about what games they wish had a good port.

Since nobody asked for wishes, it's not relevant at all. Relevant would be to discuss how to get porters like Ryan Gordon in contact with developers that might show interest in having their game porter. Wishing for skyrim has been done a thousand times and adds nothing to the subject of this article.

Cyberpunk 2077, it's good to have them 'the' Linux porter from the start

Sadly, your wishes are of no use. What Icculus needs is permission and source code. Unless you do have access to these of the games you name, don't even bother.
See here: https://twitter.com/icculus/status/1005951766414921728

Well, there needs to be some sort realism and rationalism in terms of Linux port expectations. First of all, there are certain companies that reject to support Linux at all due to financial or contractual reasons. Because of that, forget about ZeniMax, Bethesda and id Software related titles like Skyrim, Doom, Fallout, Wolfenstein, etc... Secondly modern AAA games are the products of 100s (if not 1000s) people's work; even though they are complete and might support some general libraries and APIs like OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL, etc, it takes enormous effort to port and test these by one man. That said, expecting The Witcher 3, GTAV, Far Cry 5 isn't reasonable even slightest; not to mention publishers' tendency to ignore Linux most of the time.

So, here is the resume of Mr. Ryan C. Gordon.

https://icculus.org/resume

It should be beneficial to check his recent "client" ports to Linux in order to find companies open for Linux port proposals.

Night Dive Studios seems to open for any proposal for a long time. My suggestions are;

- Native System Shock: Enhanced Edition
- Native System Shock 2

Some old Loki games that Ryan C. Gordon has already worked on few of them would be nice:

Human Head Studios:

- Rune Classic

Square Enix:

- Deus Ex

Firaxis Games:

- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

2K Games:

- Railroad Tycoon II

Epic Games occasionally becomes Linux advocate, so that porting or re-porting some of old games would be their interest if right offer presented.

- Native Jazz Jackrabbit
- Jazz Jackrabbit 2
- Unreal
- Unreal 2
- Unreal Tournament
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Fortnite

Following are the some Linux friendly Linux publishers and their products that I wish to be ported to Linux;

Sega:

- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 1 (cross-platform multiplayer)
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

2K:

- Borderlands
- BioShock
- BioShock 2

LucasArts:

- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (Classic, 2005)
- Star Wars: Republic Commando
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith

Square Enix:

- Thief
- Thief II: The Metal Age
- Anachronox
- Deus Ex: Invisible War

CD Projekt RED:

- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

Interplay:

- MDK
- MDK 2
- Kingpin — Life of Crime
- Earthworm Jim
- Earthworm Jim 2


Last edited by rea987 on 11 June 2018 at 4:01 pm UTC

If I was him and if I had hes knowledge and time to do what I really love, I would contribute to something from what the benefits for Linux gaming would be the biggest. In my opinion, it would be the work to make Unreal Engine for Linux to become in the best possible shape. I agree completely that he's totally wasting his talents and time to something totally insignificant. Also and again, if I was him, I would consider finding other people that would like to join me, people that love porting games to Linux (and Mac maybe) and would try to do the same thing like Feral is doing. He's obviously a master in this branch and he could profit from it and make the real success story from it.