Re: [orca-list] Wine apps in Orca?

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Jason,

On 6/26/12, Jason White <jason jasonjgw net> wrote:
> > If you want to get into free software / open-source audio game development, I
> > am sure Linux distributors would be interested in including your work in their
> > distributions. There are games for Linux, but not audio ones as far as I know.

Well, I am an audio  game developer, but one reason I haven't written
games for Linux is because I don't know how many VI Linux users would
be willing to pay for them commercially. When it comes to decent game
development the open source model doesn't always work because the game
developer has to pay out hundreds in royalty fees for sounds, music,
and sometimes for pro quality APIs. Something like SDL Mixer is fine
for some games but really isn't top quality and can't handle serious
3d audio and so on. For that the FMOD Ex API by Firelight Technologies
is by far and away the best audio library available for Linux game
developers, but has a pretty heavy price tag attached. So the game
developer has to raise money either through donations or through
actual sales to pay for the proper licenses.

I could certainly write some open source games in Python or C++, but
they'd likely be simple games like BopIt, Space Invaders, etc.
Basically, games that would be easy and inexpensive to create.
Especially, if I had to depend on purely open source   APIs like SDL
which aren't DirectX quality. Perhaps games similar to what Jim
Kitchen creates like football, card and board games,and so on.

Cheers!