WELCOME
to the Linux Game Development Center.
This site aspires to be the headquarters for all Linux game development.


LINKS
Projects
Developers
Mailing List Information
Resources
The Original Idea
NEWS
July 27, 1998:
We're on the LDP (http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/)!

Old news...

SITE UPDATES
September 07, 1998:
Added the "Where am I?" section
August 11, 1998:
Added XwinAllegro to the resources page.
Added Ephren Taylor, Jr. to the developers page.

Old site updates...



Where am I? What's this site about?

Well, this site aspires to be the headquarters for all Linux game development. What does that mean?

Linux Game Programming Resources
First of all it means that this site tries to provide a comprehensive overview of the available programming resources like game SDKs, image manipulation/generation software, special documentation, programming tools etcetc.

Communication between developers
Development of Open Source game SDKs has to be coordinated to reduce duplication of efforts and to ensure interoperability of their code, game developers want to stay in contact with the authors of the toolkits they use, game developers new to Linux need help from experienced Linux developers and so on. This project provides a mailing list for Linux game developers.

Cooperation between projects
Albeit somewhat a subset of the "Communication" thing, this point is special, as it is the main reason why this site was created.
There are several projects out there aimed at making Linux a better game platform and helping game developers to write games for Linux, but not very long ago some of them didn't even know of each other. So we started to discuss how we could cooperate as far as possible while preserving the variety of tools and toolkits Linux is famous for. The result of this discussion was that we created a project that gives us an effective medium for communication and that will take care about proper interoperability of our code, so that you (as a game developer) can freely choose almost any combination of libraries from our projects without having to care about compatibility.

What is it not?

Finished ;)
This site is relatively new and it will take some time until it really can provide a comprehensive overview of the available resources. Until then, it will focus on giving an impression of what's happening in this area right now.
A Site for game players
This site is targeted at developers, so if you are mainly interested in information concerning playing games, http://www.linuxgames.com will suit your needs much better.


emailLast modified: September 07, 1998