Yet another Linux gaming article(@) on the Internet, telling how important and good it would be to get games on linux.

The author points out a few games like Enemy territory, Tremulous(which is fun game for a while, nothing too deep though) and tells how nice it would be to have some good new and shiny titles on the linux.

I ask myself why, oh why do you need them why do you need games on linux like that? Why would we want another windows box with games that are crap, sorry but most new games are crap (and yes I didn’t like Fallout3, I enjoyed Fallout1 and 2). I’m not talking about the visual experience that you could enjoy(?) while playing those titles.

What Linux needs is something different, good games.

Games that are different that are fun to play and make sense and have a story to tell. They should be creative, educational games for Children, or for elderly people, language learning games and so on. You don’t need big teams or big cash sponsors for the development for those games, all you need is linux and internet.

Get geany and pygtk and you can start to make nice games or get into SDL and OpenGL. Children love games even small ones, there are few Flash portals like UpToTen(@) or Poisson Rouge(@) on the Internet which children like a lot, it would be great to get those on Linux(native and offline), these games are small and color-full, multi language, fun and educational. What about some Gameplay and Story oriented games for linux like Lone Wolf for the DS (@).

The game is very nicely done and is fun to play, simple and enjoyable and replayable, plus you will read text and enjoy the nice drawings.

The next part is “Meanwhile, most of the free games on the market, built by volunteer developers in their spare time, have graphics that remind some of the original NES or are playing catchup to games created five years ago.”

It’s not about the graphics its about gameplay and I would rather play “NES graphic” games that are fun, innovative and creative.  A good source for some of those games is TIG Source(@).

Good games is what Linux needs.