With Unity Technologies finally adding Linux publishing support in Unity 4.0 beta, game developers can now compile and run their games on Linux.
Some announcement have been made in last few days by game studios, confirming Linux support for their Unity games.
Almost everyday, game developers are confirming Linux support for their games based on the popular Unity3D game engine.
We have covered many Unity games in past that have confirmed Linux support.
Yesterday we reported that some game studios have added Linux support to their Unity3D games. Now couple of more Unity3D games are coming to Linux.
As Linux publishing support is available only in Unity 4 mostly new games who are using latest version of the engine are adding Linux support.
YoYo Games' popular 2D game engine GameMaker will soon have an option for exporting games to Ubuntu. Similar to what Unity 4.0 game engine is doing, developers will be able to export their games to Linux platform.
GameMaker can build both native apps and HTML5 versions.
One of our reader has emailed us a link to a working test build of a popular game client. This client is long awaited by Linux gamers and the company behind it is undoubtedly the leader in computer game distribution industry.
The link has been taken down now. Fortunately, I already downloaded and tested it on my system.
Few days back we reported that Linux Game Publishing is planning to bring all games in their catalog to Ubuntu Software Center and Desura. Some of their games like Sacred Gold and Majesty have already been released in these distribution services.
Now RuneSoft, another company that specializes in porting games for Linux, is planning to bring their games to Desura.
Unity3D 4.0 game engine has native Linux publishing support and with release of its first beta version, developers are already trying out their games on Linux.
You can play couple of these games right now on your Linux desktop, including AngryBots which is one of the demo games shipped with Unity3D.
Try the games from Links below:
AngryBots
Unitroids
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Unity Technologies announced Linux publishing support for Unity 4, next version of their popular game engine.
Lots of Game Studios were waiting for this announcement and within just couple of days, some Game Studios have added Linux support.
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Jason Rubin, President of THQ, has tweeted that they are looking at possibility of porting games to Linux.
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