Unity Technologies adding Linux publishing support to their Unity3D game engine is doing lots of good to Linux gaming.
Two million dollar Unity based game projects, Wasteland 2 and Project Eternity have already announced 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.
Humble Indie Bundle 6 has been launched with 6 amazing cross platform games. The collection of games this time is quite great specially with titles like Torchlight and Dustforce.
Other four games in the bundle are Rochard, Shatter, S.P.A.Z. and Vessel.
Torchlight is my personal favorite and its great that the game finally came to Linux.
Unity Technologies has added Linux publishing support recently to their popular Unity3D game engine.
With the latest Unity 4.0, developers who wish to provide a Linux version of their game can easily compile source code with the built-in export option and make binaries for Linux platform. Two Unity games, Rochard and Cubemen have already been released for Lin
Wadget Eye Games is looking to bring some of their games to Linux. The game studio is well known for creating incredibly popular point-and-click adventure games 'Gemini Rue' and 'Resonance'.
These Linux ports will be most likely based on open-source Adventure Game Studio game engine.
Unity3D game engine got Linux publishing support recently. This feature was long awaited by Linux users and now more and more Unity3D games are adding Linux support everyday.
In a new video, Na'Tosha and Levi from Unity3D Linux team talked about their love for Linux, the success of Humble Indie Bundle, Ubuntu Software Center and Steam.
Few days back we reported that RIM (popularly known for its product BlackBerry smartphone) is working on adding Linux platform support to its open-source and cross-platform C++ game engine Gameplay3D.
Sticking to their promise, RIM has released a new version of the engine today with full Linux support. The engine is still in development so there isn't a game based on Gameplay3D yet.
We've announced a couple of weeks ago that with the release of the Unity 4.0 game engine more games will be published on Linux, especially on the Ubuntu platform, via Ubuntu Software Center.
In the last days, more game studios have announced that their "still in development" games will have native support for the Linux platform.
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