Making Games in Linux? How can I? I have in Windows....

Gaming4JC · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 16

Hello,
I make games on Windows with a free program called Game Maker ( Link: www.gamemaker.nl) but how would I go about making games on Linux? I probably need to learn a few more new codes but... any tips

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wescott · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:02 pm Post subject:

Check out the stratagus game engine. It's just one of the many options opensource has to offer.

And may the Source be with you!

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Mongrol · Guru Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 376

There's also pygame library for writing stuff in python. Or SDL which has bindings for many languages or if you want more of a gamemaking program there's blender (www.blender3d.org). Tricky to start off with but rocks once you learn it.

Taladar · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 12:04 am Post subject:

The Crystal Space Engine is also nice: http://www.crystalspace3d.org

russianpirate · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:25 am Post subject:

you can use the quake3 source code and modify it and make a new game if ur really interested in making a good game

Narnach · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:35 am Post subject:

russianpirate · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:46 am Post subject:

I guess not, but like I said if making a good game, you should use quake3 engine because then you would have good graphics as well.

lynxnyl · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject:

there are such tools as gamemaker too, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. Other people suggested proper coding, but I duobt you're looking for that.

xordan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 148

I would recommend crystalspace, although it has a hard learning curve. It can do some pretty cool things though. You can see some screenshots of games that use crystalspace here: http://community.crystalspace3d.org/tiki-browse_gallery.php?galleryId=5

Gaming4JC · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 16

Thank you all I'll have to look into it alot of choices :wink:

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ChojinDSL · l33t Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 784

Crystalspace seems to support more advanced graphics and effects than the Quake3 engine.

That being said, the quake3 engine has served as a basis for a lot of great games.

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Matteo Azzali · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 1133

If you want to practise you can use blender or pygame, if you're thinking to do
something "serious" don't waste your time with quake3, leap to C++ and use OGRE + sdl .
You can check in the forum and the featured project for the kinds of graphics you can get out of it
(and GUI is managed by CEGUI).
Other than that, OGRE is portable to win + directx, and currently has good support forum and good mesh importers,
plus the choiche to use wrappers for various physics engines.

Crystal Space? IMHO it's vaporware, check the screenshots, they are good? Yes. Have you heard of any of these games?
can you find them in the web? (well, I found Iceland freeware for linux, but it doesn't even unpacks!!!!!). Only Planeshift
has something "concrete" to show.

OGRE has VTRIKE, released as coin-op, plus scootarama and overdrive and some other demo/little game released, plus it has Ankh
(a german adventure game, actually in gold, really beautiful), Supremacy :four path to power (who got nominated at
independant game awards),Axiomatic (another commercial game) and stunt playground (a freeware for windows, actually at release 2).
Enough to tell it's not vapor.
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jorrit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 128

Matteo Azzali · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 1133

Crystal space isn't a new project , it's there since when? years?
Ok, you're right, there are 2 more projects "concrete" other than planeshift
(keepsake at http://wickedstudios.com/keepsake/swf/english.htm has nothing
concrete, just some screenshots). This doesn't change the fact that in lots of
years the concretized projects are a bunch.

Ogre is younger by far, and already has lots more of projects finished, has dot3
bump mapping (normal mapping, as farcry and doom3) support, shaders, importers
from lots of modelers both free and commercial, and sample project to show ogre
features. More, it's synergic with CEGUI for good GUIs and can support lots of
physics engines (not last the novodex one, that will work with ageia cards), has
a mesh viewer inside, and there are lots of related projects (check oFusion if you have MAX).
It's not fortuitos that Vega Strike developers are porting their game to ogre....

And all this for a project (ogre) that was started in 2002, Crystal Space was there in year 2000
(but I suspect that it was there since some year before), and all that was finished with it are
3 projects? (well, blocks3d is a very little project, counting this one I should count a lot of other
little project for ogre, from yast (tetris in 3d) to the alpha release of a tree generator....)

Care, I'm not telling that Crystal Space is a bad project or something completely unuseful,
it had its moments of glory in 2003,but I'm just asking myself why it's currently suggested
when joining this project (and developers,and community efforts) to ogre would be better.
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jorrit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 128

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jorrit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 128

The learning curve of Crystal Space is steeper. That means it is more complicated to learn it. But once you got past that stage I believe that CS allows you to do quicker development of games as it does more. OGRE is mostly a renderer. CS is a complete 3D engine framework with integrated physics, sound, ... In combination with CEL (game entity layer) CS becomes even more powerful and also easier to use as many common game things (camera handling, walking system, inventory, quest manager, ...) are already handled by CEL.

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