I want to switch to linux but I still want a good game engine to develop with. I'm not sure whats out there thats good though.
Game engine for Linux?
I don't have any experience with it but Godot engine runs on linux and looks pretty good.
http://www.godotengine.org/wp/features/
It seems there is still no linux support for the Unity editor, only for Linux as build target... a quick google search reveals this feedback page: http://feedback.unity3d.com/suggestions/platforms-unity-editor-for-linu
Seems people get it to run under Wine though...
I guess you need to give more info about what kind of engine you are looking for.
Most 2D engines will run on linux, as for 3D the open source ones tend to run as well.
I want to switch to linux
That's a bold decision for a game developer.
Most games are not built on linux, most games are not published on linux, most game development tools are not first class linux citizens, most graphics drivers do not perform as well on linux... The list goes on.
If you are switching to linux for any reason other than strongly held convictions, I'd suggest careful consideration of the pros and cons.
That's a bold decision for a game developer.
Most games are not built on linux, most games are not published on linux, most game development tools are not first class linux citizens, most graphics drivers do not perform as well on linux... The list goes on.
If you are switching to linux for any reason other than strongly held convictions, I'd suggest careful consideration of the pros and cons.
+1
The consumption part might change with Steam OS, but even if that manages to take off, it might take a while for the graphic drivers and games to catch up (not to mention that Steam OS will be just a fork of a fork of a fork of what generally started the whole linux craze... so what is good for Steam OS might not be good for your linux version).
About linux as a game creation platform... well, you would need MULTIPLE big studios ditching their Windows or MacOS workstations for Linux, helbent not to work with Wine or something similar, and the needed resources and influence to make the dev ecosystem providers port their stuff to linux to get more support here.
Outside of China or Russia (that try to get US Products out of their IT departments), and MAYBE some other countries and companies doing the same after the big NSA cluster****, most probably not gonna happen ;)
Outside of China or Russia (that try to get US Products out of their IT departments), and MAYBE some other countries and companies doing the same after the big NSA cluster****, most probably not gonna happen ;)
If you're targeting those regions, you need your game to run on Windows XP, not Linux, at least for now.
Speaking as an ex-uber-Linux-nerd, Windows 8.1+ is just better; VS and VC++ is a better development experience than Vi/Emacs and GCC/Clang, and the rest of ecosystem is just easier, more stable, and more featureful on Microsoft's platforms.
Outside of China or Russia (that try to get US Products out of their IT departments), and MAYBE some other countries and companies doing the same after the big NSA cluster****, most probably not gonna happen ;)
If you're targeting those regions, you need your game to run on Windows XP, not Linux, at least for now.
True, I was kinda half-joking (its mostly the governments of these countries trying to switch to linux).
At least in russia, it seems the average PC user is some years behind the western average PC user in hardware and OS version, so DX9, WinXP, and midrange card from the end of the last decade is basically what you should target. IDK about China though....
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