[Ubuntu-PH] can anybody help us?

[GOvvin]

This somehow reminds me of an old "Filipino" vaporware project: David.

The reality of the "GNU/Linux" gaming market is it's Lilliputian, in fact
it's minuscule, infinitesimal even. Okay, you probably got my point.  The
game developer landscape is marked by tombstone of dead commercial game
developers for the Linux platform.  Please, I hope I am not misunderstood
about what's good and great about Linux, I use it myself, and I advocate its
use.

I just don't see any business sense (ie profit) from the Linux market
niche.  If, like any prudent businessman should, your business plan has any
intention of actually earning a cent in the foreseeable future, you'd want
to target the still growing market of console games, handhelds, and,
unfortunately, Windows-based PC gaming.

But wait, there's still a silver lining to this. Your confederation of
internet "cafes" may want to underwrite a project to port or develop a true
middle-ware the whatever games they'd like (is it beginning to sound like
WineX?).  Or, better yet, support existing projects (ie Wine) which intends
to develop the achieve the same goals.  Let these groups invest something
wherein they stand to profit anyway.

Mind you, I'm talking about the business of developing games. If you have
the time, skill and  some resources, I'm sure you could develop your own
game (try Phospor beta?) but it's not likely to be something comparable to
what's commercially available in the market right now.

PS
Don't remind me about "games" already found in Linux, except for a handful,
it's never at the same level of platform maturity as consoles or PCs.

PPS
But who am I to stop you? Don't mind this young fart venting his, now
appreciating, P0.01 centavos.

On Dec 27, 2007 6:08 PM, Laibeus Lord <laibcoms at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, new here.  I think when it comes to local games, there are active
> players (home-users mostly) who experiments and try to run local games under
> GNU/Linux.  It is just hard to know who these people are, but I'm studying
> to what extent of possibility is an iCafe with (K)Ubuntu can do and stay
> competitive and low cost.
>
> One reason why there are few games in GNU/Linux is because in Korea they
> are solid to Microsoft, even their IM is MSN/WLM, and they will not create
> YM accounts or accept ODF files.
>
> This opens a door for us Filipinos.  GNU/Linux is hungry for games.
> Filipinos can enter this industry via GNU/Linux, we just need support
> especially financially.
>
>
>
> On Dec 27, 2007 3:31 PM, Homer <homer.jose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sang ayon ako. mairap nga para sa insang internet shop and mag switch
> > sa Ubuntu.  Kase dun sa shop ng kaibigan ko, nawala ang karamian ng
> > customer kase hanap ng mga customer nila ay games.  anyway,   ano yung
> > coverage ng gusto mo i train?  tingnan ko kung meron ako materials na
> > makukuha.  tapos kung wala naman, pero medyo simple lang ang coverage,
> > bka makagawa ako. ( I use to write training modules sa isang call
> > center)
> >
> >
> > Homer
> >
> > On 12/15/07, hard wyrd < hardwyrd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'll also rummage my files for the intro to Linux presentation for
> > those
> > > interested.
> > >
> > > On Dec 15, 2007 3:26 PM, ven pantinople < ben_j9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > To troy and everybody else. :-)
> > > >
> > > > can you outline the topics you want covered in this
> > > > one day seminar? maybe we can help each other prepare
> > > > the materials, even an Impress presentation or a short
> > > > tutorial.
> > > >
> > > > so that in the end, maybe you can be the one doing the
> > > > training.
> > > >
> > > > best regards,
> > > >
> > > > ven
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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