Comment Re:I Disagree (Score 1) 327
I think that you are both right and wrong. There are a number of useful tools out there that could be used to produce very viable games for Linux, but the problem is not in the possibilities for creating games. The problem lies in the simplicity of doing so.
There are coders out there who will create programs simply for the challenge of doing so, but by and large, there are far more programmers out there who would rather have a comprehensive set of development tools that allow their creativity to be what runs the show, and not their need to constantly dicker with the "quirks" of a given tool or operating system.
I have recently been experimenting with programming on different platforms, and I have discovered that no matter how you feel about Microsoft, there are far too many useful tools written for Win32 that just don't exist for other operating systems. Yes, those tools are no doubt on the horizion, but they don't exist right now, and that's what stands in the way of a real explosion of real focused game programming on Linux and other operating systems.
There are coders out there who will create programs simply for the challenge of doing so, but by and large, there are far more programmers out there who would rather have a comprehensive set of development tools that allow their creativity to be what runs the show, and not their need to constantly dicker with the "quirks" of a given tool or operating system.
I have recently been experimenting with programming on different platforms, and I have discovered that no matter how you feel about Microsoft, there are far too many useful tools written for Win32 that just don't exist for other operating systems. Yes, those tools are no doubt on the horizion, but they don't exist right now, and that's what stands in the way of a real explosion of real focused game programming on Linux and other operating systems.
