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Umm... Phone games? All Android devices are based on Linux. Android is a major player in the mobile gaming industry.

by antris 8y ago

detaro 8y ago
What skills/tech you use for Android games is "Linux" specific and would transfer from/to a desktop Linux system or other Linux platform? (instead of being Android-specific, or specific to an engine etc)
- antris 8y ago
  Anything from Android can be forked into any number of Linux distros you want to make. So none of it is Android-specific, really. For example Android software worked on Jolla's Sailfish OS.
  - zeroname 8y ago
    Sailfish has a crappy Android simulation layer. You don't really want that on the Desktop. Android and Desktop Linux are completely different platforms, except maybe for the graphics APIs (Vulkan/OpenGL).
    - antris 8y ago
      I'm not saying I would want that. My original point was that the person I was replying to said that they won't believe Linux gaming would ever be predominant. I'm saying it already is.
      - detaro 8y ago
        Would you say the same about FreeBSD gaming then, given the PS4 runs FreeBSD?
        antris 8y ago
        You can easily fork Android and create an OS on top of it that connects with the Android ecosystem. Can't do that with PS4 and its OS and ecosystem.
- shittyadmin 8y ago
  Quite a bit actually, if you've only worked with Android Java ecosystem you probably won't see it, but if you're working with the Android NDK at least as many game developers are, you're frequently using the same libraries and compilers you'd need to get your game working on desktop Linux. Especially when it comes to things like graphics libraries and game engines, stuff like OpenGL, SDL or even higher level engines like Unity are quite popular on both platforms. While you could say this is just due to having cross platform libraries, but the platform specific steps for them (compiling, linking, initialization) are definitely more consistent across Android and Linux than going to Windows for example.
wil421 8y ago
The tweet was about a game on desktop platforms Windows, Mac, and Linux. The discussion was not about mobile games. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Annihilation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Annihilation

Umm... Phone games? All Android devices are based on Linux. Android is a major player in the mobile gaming industry.

by antris 8y ago

Umm... Phone games? All Android devices are based on Linux. Android is a major player in the mobile gaming industry.

What skills/tech you use for Android games is "Linux" specific and would transfer from/to a desktop Linux system or other Linux platform? (instead of being Android-specific, or specific to an engine etc)

antris 8y ago
Anything from Android can be forked into any number of Linux distros you want to make. So none of it is Android-specific, really. For example Android software worked on Jolla's Sailfish OS.
- zeroname 8y ago
  Sailfish has a crappy Android simulation layer. You don't really want that on the Desktop. Android and Desktop Linux are completely different platforms, except maybe for the graphics APIs (Vulkan/OpenGL).
  - antris 8y ago
    I'm not saying I would want that. My original point was that the person I was replying to said that they won't believe Linux gaming would ever be predominant. I'm saying it already is.
    - detaro 8y ago
      Would you say the same about FreeBSD gaming then, given the PS4 runs FreeBSD?
      - antris 8y ago
        You can easily fork Android and create an OS on top of it that connects with the Android ecosystem. Can't do that with PS4 and its OS and ecosystem.
shittyadmin 8y ago
Quite a bit actually, if you've only worked with Android Java ecosystem you probably won't see it, but if you're working with the Android NDK at least as many game developers are, you're frequently using the same libraries and compilers you'd need to get your game working on desktop Linux. Especially when it comes to things like graphics libraries and game engines, stuff like OpenGL, SDL or even higher level engines like Unity are quite popular on both platforms. While you could say this is just due to having cross platform libraries, but the platform specific steps for them (compiling, linking, initialization) are definitely more consistent across Android and Linux than going to Windows for example.

wil421 8y ago

The tweet was about a game on desktop platforms Windows, Mac, and Linux. The discussion was not about mobile games. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Annihilation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Annihilation