Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 05, 2006 04:51 AM
Perhaps even most multimedia games have rather a short life. You play them through a couple of times and then all the excitement is gone. Really big hits that become classics and are played actively even for years by many are rare cases.
As the market for multimedia games is like that, it seems obvious to me that game designers usually want to get at least paid well for their hard work. Big game projects can take years, lots of expertise, and money too. Where do you get the money? Government or normal business is not likely to support game projects usually. In such a situation closed source development can be a big plus for game companies competing hard all the time in order to produce to next big hit.
Open source projects like OpenOffice.org or Mozilla are quite different from games. They produce useful software that can be used and developed for years, they have lots of busines backing etc.
However, here're some more interesting multimedia games for Linux/Unix, not mentioned in the article, and worth looking for, if you're looking for some more games:
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 05, 2006 04:51 AMAs the market for multimedia games is like that, it seems obvious to me that game designers usually want to get at least paid well for their hard work. Big game projects can take years, lots of expertise, and money too. Where do you get the money? Government or normal business is not likely to support game projects usually. In such a situation closed source development can be a big plus for game companies competing hard all the time in order to produce to next big hit.
Open source projects like OpenOffice.org or Mozilla are quite different from games. They produce useful software that can be used and developed for years, they have lots of busines backing etc.
However, here're some more interesting multimedia games for Linux/Unix, not mentioned in the article, and worth looking for, if you're looking for some more games:
- Cube
<a href="http://www.cubeengine.com/" title="cubeengine.com">http://www.cubeengine.com/</a cubeengine.com>
- Soviet Unterzögersdorf
<a href="http://www.monochrom.at/suz-game/" title="monochrom.at">http://www.monochrom.at/suz-game/</a monochrom.at>
- Spice Trade
<a href="http://www.spicetrade.org/" title="spicetrade.org">http://www.spicetrade.org/</a spicetrade.org>
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