Loki produced Linux ports of popular games, including Myth II and Civilization:
Call to Power, to name a couple, and many hoped it would help Linux become the premier gaming
platform. Since then, no other company has stepped up to port that wide a range of best-selling
games to Linux. Today, commercial games that run natively are led by several popular games from
id Software (described in the next section) and a few gaming companies that have ported individual
titles to Linux.
Some Loki games are still available for purchase on the Web. They sell for a fraction of their original
price, but you are on your own if they don??™t work because Loki Software is no longer there to
support them. The Loki Games Demo is still around, if you want to get a feel for a particular Loki
game before it disappears completely. (I describe how to find demo and packaged Loki Games later
in this chapter.)
Although the state of Linux gaming has improved somewhat in the last few years, Linux is still
emerging as a gaming platform. Linux has some of the technology needed to support advanced
games, but the technology and developer support have not yet really come together. Most serious
gamers still maintain a Windows partition to support their gaming habits.
According to top game developers, there are significant hurdles??”both technological and economic
??”that hinder development of games for Linux.
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