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

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

This is an intriguing subject.  About how much is the average price for 
a game factoring in royalties and man hours and so forth?  Assuming, 
purely for hypothetical purposes, that you threw caution to the winds 
and wrote a Linux game, what price would you be looking to charge which 
you think people wouldn't be willing to pay?

Alex M

On 6/27/2012 9:13 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> 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!
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