Hi. I've never been able to get any of my computers to run Linux for some strange reason, they either don't work with sound, or the screen messes up. I just asked for a cd copy of ubuntu 7.10 though, and I'll be trying it on like five different personal computers, surely to god I'll get it running somewhere!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:09 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Multiplatform Games was Raceway > Hi Che and all, > Well, USA Games is currently doing an informal survey on Mac and Linux > gaming and we think that some sort of cross platform gaming would be > valuable. Perhaps not every project, and maybe not even something as > serious as Raceway or Rail Racer, but I think those markets are do for > the kinds of games like Jim Kitchen puts out. The Mac Visionaries group > and the Gnome Accessibility Project are two areas where support is > growing, and providing more accessible games, applications, and tools > for those platforms will drasticly improve those operating systems for > prospective blind users who are looking for a non-Windows alternative. > It is true that most Mac users are running our games through Windows > virtual machines, but as I stated in an earlier post that is nowhere > near as good as playing the game that is natively supported by the os or > run through something like the Java runtime. How much impact it would > have is something I should ask the Mac Visionaries list which is where > all the Mac action seams to be now days. > As for weather or not to go multiplatform I think that is in all > respects a personal decision. As I have said many times in this day > alone I've been using alternative operating systems like Linux for a > number of years, and for myself alone going cross platform is a good > idea. The only reason I am targeting Windows is that it is where the > traditional markets are, but I want to expand out into the fringe > markets and see what is out there for us as far as new and untouched > markets. > If you haven't listened to Michael Feir's latest podcast on Blind Cool > Tech it kind of gets into this general idea. While the apps he points > out are so so the basic message holds true. If you aren't willing to > expand, explore outside of the triditional blind box, we won't grow and > find out new things. Even things that were not made accessible but are > so by accident or design. > Your Rail Racer game is such a case where you have pushed new areas not > really explored by blind programmers. You have introduced the mouse as a > new gaming controller, introduced multiplayer gaming like never before, > and you have pushed the market to new and until now unexplored gaming > possibilities. > Now, I think I am kind of doing the same thing except I am exploring how > well games will do outside of the traditional core gaming comunity made > up of mostly Windows only users. > Obviously, before I actually ported something as complex as Raceway I > should create a simple space Invaders shoot-m-up type game or something > to see how well it works on Mac, Linux, and Windows and to get the basic > concepts down for multiplatform gaming. However, I certainly believe it > is something to research and explore. > > Che wrote: >> I would do a survey before going through the trouble of cross >> developing >> any accessible game. I'm afraid given the limited amount of Linux and >> Mac >> users using accessible technology, it simply would not be worth the >> effort, >> especially if you end up cutting out features to make it work on all >> systems. >> Regarding the mac users, the windows environment running on there works >> just fine for accessible games from what I have heard, so I'm not sure >> how >> much impact a mac version would have at any rate. >> I agree with Karl that there are a lot of folks out there waiting on >> raceway, and I'm sure over 90 percent of them are ready to roll with >> windows. >> As a developer, I have no intentions of going cross platform, I am >> quite >> happy with the response I've gotten from windows users, but if I were >> doing >> raceway, I would make it as good as possible for windows, and leave the >> cross platform experiment for another game down the road after gathering >> more info about linux and mac users. >> I think it is a noble idea, but one that will probably be dissapointing >> in >> the final analysis. >> Whatever your decision Thomas, I wish you luck with it. >> Later, >> Che >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. 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