New Open Soure Game Developer

Recently the new game developer Sixth Floor Labs started its business with the aim is to improve the Linux gaming scene. Their concept is to continue improving their own Open Source games when the community is willing to pay a certain amount of money.

EA wants 'open gaming platform'

The BBC reports a cry from EA for an open gaming platform,

"We want an open, standard platform which is much easier than having five which are not compatible."

Linux GameDev V - Marketing and Distribution

The next part of Troy Hepfner's Linux Game Development series is published at GameDev.net - his last article, but as he stated perhaps his most important, and is about how to sell games for Linux. Indeed that's a little difficult, 'cause the market is very, very small.

Unix Game Market Place

Most people in the industry will say there is no market for Linux games, or something like it's too risky developing for Linux when Dual Boot is so easy, or have another excuse like Linux users are used to not buy software and want everything for free.

I have to regret, that there's a grain of truth. The game development company RuneSoft noticed Linux has even less sales figures than their Amiga edition of a game - hell, who uses Amiga these days?! That's really frightening for any serious company.

That's all I need to know: who are these crazy freaks supporting their favorite platform (beside of open source)?

Publishers:

• Garage Games
  
• Hyperion Entertainment
• ixsoft
• Linux Game Publishing
• RuneSoft
• Loki (out of business)
  
• Titan Computer (out of business)
  
• Tribsoft (out of business)

Developers:

• Bioware
• BlackHoleSun (out of business)
• BraveTree (out of business)
• Caravel Games
• Chronic Logic (out of business)
• Creature Labs
• Croteam (out of business)
• Donohoe Digital (out of business)
• Entropic Software (out of business)
• Eon Games (out of business)
• The General Coffee Company
• Guild Software
• id Software
• Illwinter (out of business)
• Introversion Software
• Iron Code Software (out of business)
• Laminar Research
• Maxgaming Technologies
  
• Oddlabs
• Phantom EFX
• Pixel 5 Studio (out of business)
• PomPom Games (out of business)
• Puppy Games
• Rarebyte
• Savage 2
• Silent Wings
• Silly Soft
• Small Rockets
• Three Rings
• Vicarious Visions
• The Wyrmkeep Entertainment

I'm sure to have missed some, so if you need some ads, you're welcome.