Chittering Clawbug King InuYasha Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Is there a possibility that Avadon will be available for Linux? If so, when? If not, why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenderfoot Thahd Debo Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Do you even have to ask why? Seriously if you hate wine and you're vehement about linux at this point, just run VirtualBox or something and play in a VM. I can't see how porting to Linux would ever be a profitable move for this company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast *i Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Jeff has spoken on this for other games. Presumably, the answer will be no as it has been. The reason is time, skill, and ultimately cost benefit. Jeff has stated he knows how to program in Mac and port to Windows. Linux, while very similar to Mac, has some peculiarities depending on the distribution that would take up additional time to work through and test adequately. Like it or not, the market share on Linux is incredibly small. The time Jeff would have to spend porting to Linux is time Jeff does not spend making more games, which is ultimately a more profitable use of his time. I'm not trying to rail on Linux, btw. I use a Linux distribution quite extensively for my work. It's the best for the sorts of things that I do, but gaming (for economic reasons) is not the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Spidweb Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 All of our games, as far as I know, work on Wine. The number of Linux users who refuse to use Wine and who don't have another machine for gaming is a pretty thin slice of pastry. We are building up the energy to port our games to a new platform, but I'm afraid it won't be Linux. Sorry about that. - Jeff Vogel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 Originally Posted By: Spidweb We are building up the energy to port our games to a new platform . . . - Jeff Vogel Interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chittering Clawbug King InuYasha Posted June 6, 2010 Author Share Posted June 6, 2010 Originally Posted By: VCH Originally Posted By: Spidweb We are building up the energy to port our games to a new platform . . . - Jeff Vogel Interesting Probably a console port. That's the big thing nowadays. Originally Posted By: Spidweb All of our games, as far as I know, work on Wine. The number of Linux users who refuse to use Wine and who don't have another machine for gaming is a pretty thin slice of pastry. - Jeff Vogel I do use Wine, and I do have plenty of machines. But, I had been hoping (perhaps foolishly) that over the course of the years, you had been streamlining the dependencies of your game code to cross platform ones so that you could release a native Linux version fairly easily. Since Linux is what I use primarily, I generally prefer running games natively on Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 Originally Posted By: Spidweb We are building up the energy to port our games to a new platform . . . - Jeff Vogel Great, now all the iPad fans are going to expect Jeff to make them stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 Originally Posted By: Master1 Originally Posted By: Spidweb We are building up the energy to port our games to a new platform . . . - Jeff Vogel Great, now all the iPad fans are going to expect Jeff to make them stuff. I know, right? Of course, it's obvious that Jeff is aiming for the succulent BeOS market... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 Originally Posted By: King InuYasha Originally Posted By: Spidweb We are building up the energy to port our games to a new platform . . . - Jeff Vogel Probably a console port. That's the big thing nowadays. Does that mean I will be able to play it on my new ipod nano? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Locmaar Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Originally Posted By: Rowen Originally Posted By: King InuYasha Originally Posted By: Spidweb We are building up the energy to port our games to a new platform . . . - Jeff Vogel Probably a console port. That's the big thing nowadays. Does that mean I will be able to play it on my new ipod nano? You got one, too? Marvelous device. Has future of gaming written all over it. Actually, that would have been a cool slogan to have lasered onto it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Jeff said in his the last email newsletter that "...the first Avernum game might somehow find its way onto one of those nifty handheld tablety cell-phoney things that the kids are so crazy about. Anything is possible." Kinda makes it more likely for ipad ports in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 I still fail to see how there would be a market for SW games on an ipad, but hey, whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 I don't see it myself either, but Jeff clearly sees potential in that market. *shrug* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 The only way I could see a market for iPad games is if Jeff could make a port fast enough to be one of the few games playable on it. Then he could make some sales before the prices drop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Lord Safey Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 any chance of getting it to run smoother on wine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk dave s Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Screw apple. Go with Android! Still, doesn't matter much to me. PC is where I will play it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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