User:ScotXW/Video game development software for Linux
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While playing with Category:Video game development software for Linux I stumbled over some problems with the article "Linux gaming" in its version: July 2014. Even after extensive work, cf. August 2013 it is still too extensive.
- John Carmack: Linux is not the right platform for video games (Aug 2013 "(XInput and Xaudio2 are good APIs!)" "A good shim layer should have far less impact on performance than the variability in driver quality."
- Properly evangelized, with Steam as a monetized distribution platform, this is a plausible path forward.
- Programming Linux Games
- OpenAL?
- http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-and-not-DirectX
- http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/DirectX-vs-OpenGL-revisited