Big games devloper (valve) porting huge game series (half-life 2 orange box) to linux possibly
title says it all folks, from #ubuntu-offtopic
17:06:25 -!- ValveSoft [i=kal@117.192.227.120] has joined #ubuntu-offtopic
17:06:35 < ValveSoft> we’re recruiting programmers at valve software to port the orange box to linux, if anybody is interested please let me know
17:10:50 < ValveSoft> if you are interested in a linux games programming carrier with valve softwares please post your resume here: jobs@valvesoftware.com
17:06:50 < ValveSoft> http://www.valvesoftware.com/job-SenSoftEngineer.html
17:10:51 < ValveSoft> thanks.
17:10:54 -!- ValveSoft [i=kal@117.192.227.120] has quit []
on its own obviously not much but looking at the job description “Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform.” its starting to look legit, i doubt a troll would just advertise a valve email and leave as well. here’s hoping!
[digg=http://digg.com/linux_unix/Half_life_orange_box_being_ported_to_Linux]
The site linked to does confirm it, with “Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform.” listed under job responsibilities.
Comment by jerichokb — April 19, 2008 @ 5:11 pm
Looks like you were successfully trolled! First of all, the IP address you quoted is in London, England, not Washington, USA where Valve is located. Second of all, you would have to be quite the dunce to not know how to spell career while spending time recruiting.
The website is real, of course, and it was first widely publicized on the web back in January.
Comment by yyw — April 19, 2008 @ 5:54 pm
oh, a clarification, I found an earlier source of the news at LGW from early September 2007
Comment by yyw — April 19, 2008 @ 6:15 pm
…and ….and!
*sigh*
Valve screws us again. :(
Comment by Will — April 20, 2008 @ 4:51 am
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Pingback by Half-life (orange box) being ported to Linux? | Just my Thoughts — April 20, 2008 @ 4:55 am
117.192.227.120 resolves to Banglore,
Comment by DeusExMachina — April 20, 2008 @ 5:09 am
I definitely hope so! I’ve wanted steam ported to linux years ago.
It provides balanced copyright, no annoying cd media copy protections so if my discs get damaged I am ok. Not to mention, saving on the environment boxed games would have.
Please, please, please!
Comment by Richard J — April 20, 2008 @ 5:11 am
Even if the person was pretending to be an employee of Valve, I do know that the linked Valve job website is legit and that page has been up for awhile.
I don’t know about porting orange box. First they would have to port steam which could be a huge job.
Eventually Valve will want to expand to multiplatforms as Steam grows both in users, and in game development companies (id, epic…)
Comment by Robin Hak — April 20, 2008 @ 5:25 am
That’s the thing, Robin got it right because ID and Epic both support Linux for their game engines if Valve wants their products on their platform they have to make it Linux compatible.
Comment by Willy — April 20, 2008 @ 6:39 am
Good to see that iD and Epic have been helping to plant the nasty L word into the heads of game company suits.
Comment by Thomas — April 20, 2008 @ 7:43 am
And how are they going to sell it? Or we will see the first Linux game on the shelves?
Comment by Acronyms — April 20, 2008 @ 7:53 am
@Robin..
Steam is already ported to Linux. Has been since day one. It’s used as the content engine for server distribution. There’s no UI component, but that would hardly be a huge challenge.
Comment by James — April 20, 2008 @ 8:46 am