Re: GLUT and sound

[Anarky <anarky@rdslink.ro>]

Ingo Ruhnke wrote:

> Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net> writes:
>
>  
> > I started writing games as a way to try to help promote Linux on the
> > desktop in peoples homes. However, when I obey my natural instincts
> > and make the game portable, it no longer has that effect.
> >    
> The problem is that one can't really create games good enough to get
> any Windows people interested in installing Linux, after all they have
> at least a magnitude more and better games available, while Linux just
> has a few ports and dozens of tetris clones. So the chance of getting
> Windows people interested with Linux-only games is pretty much zero.
> However with portable games people can play and test the games under
> their OS of choice, which for sure will get them more interested into
> the game, than a game that they can't run. That again will lead to
> more interest, more contributors and in the end a better game, which
> again will lead to even more interest. And now with all the interest
> around you can still boost interest in Linux if you want, add a splash
> screen saying something like developed under Linux, release Linux
> versions earlier than the Windows ones or something like that. If I
> look around all the better Free Games out there are portable and have
> significant contributions from the Windows side.
>
> After all we should try to make the best games possible and if we like
> it or not, a lot of Windows people out there can help doing that.
>
>  
   IMO this is very wise thinking. I especially liked the idea of 
earlier linux release