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Offline cubanresourceful

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AI War Linux?
« on: April 22, 2010, 09:00:33 pm »
I am just wondering, since Steam is going cross platform, will there be a Linux version of this game? :D

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Re: AI War Linux?
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2010, 09:05:20 pm »
Well, Steam is going cross platform, but not all their games are.  We are hoping to port AI War to Unity 3D in the late summer, which would give us OSX support right there.  But Unity 3D does not yet fully support linux, so I suspect it would be down to how well WINE supports Unity3d-based games.  Not something I have explored in great depth yet, but it's something people are welcome to try out with Tidalis (demo or whatever).  If Tidalis (either the OSX or Windows versions) can be made to work on Linux, then AI War should also work on Linux once we port it over to Unity.

And, heck, hopefully Unity 3D will announce full linux support sometime before too long.  It seems like it would be comparably easy versus a lot of the other recent portings they have done / are doing (360, PS3, etc).  But a smaller market, too, I guess.  Maybe the Linux support will come when they start doing Android support, too. :)
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Re: AI War Linux?
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2010, 09:18:33 pm »
Well, Steam is going cross platform, but not all their games are.  We are hoping to port AI War to Unity 3D in the late summer, which would give us OSX support right there.  But Unity 3D does not yet fully support linux, so I suspect it would be down to how well WINE supports Unity3d-based games.  Not something I have explored in great depth yet, but it's something people are welcome to try out with Tidalis (demo or whatever).  If Tidalis (either the OSX or Windows versions) can be made to work on Linux, then AI War should also work on Linux once we port it over to Unity.

And, heck, hopefully Unity 3D will announce full linux support sometime before too long.  It seems like it would be comparably easy versus a lot of the other recent portings they have done / are doing (360, PS3, etc).  But a smaller market, too, I guess.  Maybe the Linux support will come when they start doing Android support, too. :)
Sounds great, thanks for the reply! :D

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Re: AI War Linux?
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2010, 09:20:49 pm »
You bet!
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Re: AI War Linux?
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2010, 11:58:48 pm »
I am just wondering, since Steam is going cross platform, will there be a Linux version of this game? :D

I too wish strongly for AI War on Linux.

In the meantime, I have to use an XP Virtual Machine as a 'driver'....

http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,1245.msg23775.html#msg23775

Which is one of the reasons I don't play as much as I used too,  I just feel bad using the whole...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

...related pile of.....  but I will definitely be right in there to buy it for linux even if we can still use the old licenses. Gotta support goodness like that...

I restrained myself from ranting there..... All that bottled up rage... contained....
I am IMPROVING....!   :)
Maybe they will let me out on my own....
dM


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Re: AI War Linux?
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2010, 11:09:15 pm »
Indeed.  Only reason I have to reboot lately, is to play AI War ; ;

Many options for cross platform,  tho they all are bleh in many respects.  Still not checked into LINQ Support for many of them yet my self.
I'll have to add this to my list of stuff to test out tho. 

Unity 3D. hmm...