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March 22, 2009

pyweek 9.04!

Filed under: code, opengl, ubuntu — Tags: , , , , , — gordallott @ 5:32 pm

Well its offical, I’m entering into pyweek again this year (one week of solid open source game development at the end of april going into may). Last year was far too much fun and we learnt a lot (we being me and
Jeiel, a good friend of mine). As normal i’ll be developing the codebase on ubuntu and porting it to other platforms :)

Looking forward to it lots, our entry page can be found here (not much yet obviously) and our last entry can be found here

February 15, 2009

Fixed for the occasion.

Filed under: ubuntu — Tags: , , , , — gordallott @ 7:55 pm

In light of recent events I thought i would take all of two minutes out of my not so busy day to fix an old sign by mr stallman.

the general gist of it is, If you don’t want to be treated like a second class citizen for choosing to use not windows, don’t buy anything with an S3 chip in it… also, best not to choose ati at the moment still… - but at least we get specifications from them.

December 10, 2008

A new free commerical game for linux!

Filed under: ubuntu — Tags: , , , , — gordallott @ 4:38 pm

Savage2 screenshot

Savage2 screenshot


It seems the the commercial game ’savage 2′ (which has a Linux version) has gone free (as in money, not software). It may not be to everyone’s tastes but its an okay game. https://savage2.s2games.com/main.php for more info. The slight catch is that there exists ‘prime accounts’ which cost $9.99, but if you are playing the free version so much that you want a prime account, you’ll probably not mind paying.

Savage 2: A Tortured Soul is totally free to play, but you have the option of creating a Prime account for just $9.99. There are multiple advantages to a Prime account, such as two additional inventory slots, unlimited play as Hellbourne units, access to player statistics both online and in-game, and the ability to download a replay of every Savage 2 match ever played! Spread the word, help the development community by supporting companies that want to make unique and innovative games.

Its always nice to see game companies not only supporting the Linux platform but actually looking towards the future of making money from games. slapping a thousand different types of drm onto your game will only get it pirated. thinking up clever new oss inspired business models will make you money.

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