Using Cedega software from Transgaming.com, you can get hundreds more
commercial games to run. To see if the game you want is running in Cedega, visit the
Transgaming.Org Games Database (http://transgaming.org/gamesdb). Commercial
Linux games are described in more depth later in this chapter.
Gaming servers??”Many commercial computer games that don??™t have Linux clients
available do have Linux game servers associated with them. So Linux is a great operating
system for hosting a LAN party or setting up an Internet gaming server.
Linux gaming development??”Some of the most advanced tools and application programming
interfaces (APIs) for developing computer games run on Linux systems. If you
are interested in developing your own games to run in Linux, check out the OpenGL
(http://opengl.org) and Simple Directmedia Layer (www.libsdl.org) projects.
Blender (www.blender.org) is an open source project for doing animations, 3D models,
post-production, and rendering that is being used today in commercial games and
movie animations.
An offshoot of the Blender project is GameBlender (www.gameblender.org). Game
Blender is working to develop and share technology needed to use Blender for gaming.
While the development tools available for developing open source games are awesome, a primary
goal of this book is to get you up and using Linux as quickly as possible.
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