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Linux Game Consortium is a premier gaming website created by Linux zealots to service
the ever growing Linux gaming community. At this moment, there are over 500 different distributions (versions) of Linux on the market and growing. Holding 90% of the industries top 500 super computers and running on everything right down to handheld gaming devices. Compared to a few short years back, the number of commercial games and privately developed gaming applications has grown exponentially. Making the purpose behind the LGC that much more important than ever before. For game developers, it's an outlet to showcase and retail your games. Which is definitely not a new idea but does establish a place to host your downloadable game(s) online. For users, newbies (you know who you are), and experts alike. This is for you as well. Creating a centralized market place for game applications and top open source gaming software, saving you having to scour the internet in search of online games to download.
Why Linux gaming? Being at the forefront on the server scene and free software. A major game changer in everything from basic software to cloud computing and innovative application development. The desktop has moved into the mainstream years ago. Nearly every big box store computer sales area has heard of Ubuntu. The first thing they mention, are their mainstream games for Linux yet? That's why we are here. Advocating for our beloved platform and instigating change in the gaming community.
Why now? Ubuntu was a huge introduction in an “easy to use” operating system. Together with an “always free” commitment plus the availability of games using the Quake 3 engine software became a major motivator. So it is time now to bring gaming to Linux and experience greater stability through an open-source platform established by the community. Showing commercial game development what they have been ignoring. And create further opportunity for independant developers to create new games. Native Games
One of the biggest developments in games, The Humble Bundle are making massive strides to native games and demanding Linux support for software. Let alone users who are throwing money at it, typically providing a quarter of the total money collected and showing there is a definite market. Applications for Indie games are thriving on Linux, the Humble Bundle has not only helped publicize games but also proves there is an untapped market for such games. Game Development As far as development is concerned, the library support for gaming is provided by different applications of OpenGL, ALSA, OpenAL and SDL, cross-platform multimedia wrappers around system-dependent libraries. The DRI project provides open source video card drivers, software for NVIDIA and ATI also release binary kernel modules for their video cards. Several gaming peripherals also work with Linux, such as gaming mice from Roccat which have official Linux drivers and even a free software user-space utility. Several game development tools also run on Linux, including 3D game engine applications Unigine and Spring the real time strategy engine. Linux Game News The industry would not be instigating change in applications if it were not for the game and industry news. The Linux Game News and RSS feed bring you the latest developments in the community as well related applications in operating systems such as Android. Not to mention emerging software innovations in the gaming world. Sharing an abundance of growth in deployments and applications for greater performance.
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