Chris Ross wrote:
Aaron Kulkis escreveu:
The problem is that right now, there is a dearth of
Linux titles for modern games. A couple FPS have
been ported, but ever since Loki went out of business,
the opportunity to run things like RailRoad Tycoon,
unfortunately depends on a Windows installation :-(.
You're presumably aware of LGP who seem to have picked up
> the mantle from Loki in porting commercial games to Linux,
> even maintaining some of Loki's ports such as MindRover?
> http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com
>
Sadly, they seem to have a marketing budget of about 20p.
> I only discovered them by chance but we bought "x2: The
> Threat" from them and we're planning on buying more. Partly,
> truth be known, to support anybody brave enough to try
> creating a market for Linux games. I bought pretty much
> everything Loki published for similar reasons but it didn't
seem to do them any good :(
I think one of the best policies is to mention these
sorts of companies as much as possible -- word of
mouth helps overcome a shoe-string advertising budget --
look at how many Linux web servers were set up in
corporate environments before most people had even
heard of Redhat.
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