Re: Arabic 3D Game in Linux ?

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

As I worked on game engines before and made myself a game with this app
(http://www.blender.org) I know how hard it is to make a game

This brings me to two points:
1) An open-source engine is there. But doing a game is so hard and time
consuming and it needs so much skills (models, level-design, texturing,
programming-language skills,etc...) that it is very hard to make a good
looking game and it is very time consuming so a port to linux would be
(in my opinion also) a foolish thing. As there isn't nearly any userbase
and the question would be: are you ready to pay 60$ for a game like
that?

2) this brings me to the second point, a company needs to make money not
to satisfy the needs of some nerds and a game engine is so hard to make
no one would make it open source this is foolish... Only if the ppl are
hobbiests maybe...

At the end my personal opinion: I don't like the games you posted as
they deal with war and killing, a game is first of all a GAME (lu3ba)
and war is not a game...

Am Sam, 2003-11-01 um 08.55 schrieb Mohammed Gamal:
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> > Hi
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> > Did anyone think about creating Arabic 3D game in
> > Linux ? or at less
> > running windows Arabic 3d games in linux (e.g Jeneen
> > http://www.turath.com/jeneen/arabic.htm)
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> > I bought this game (Jeneen) and its very nice but
> > the problem its only
> > run in windows :(
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> > Pictures : http://www.turath.com/jeneen/picture.htm
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> There is a similar project to the game you mentioned
> (very similar actually) by Dar Al-Fikr in Syria(at
> www.afkarmedia.com), the game would become in markets
> in a matter of days or weeks. I tried to convince them
> to offer a Linux port for the game, but they refused
> as Linux has a 'small market in the region'. They have
> made a 3D engine called '@4', I think we should
> contact them and convince them to make the engine
> open-source, I think this would be a very good idea.
> 
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> Mohammed Gamal
> Member of "ArabEyes", Unix/Linux Arabization Project
> GUI & documentation translator
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