Thursday, June 23, 2005
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Age of Empires III .. Can't wait to lay my hands on
According to AoE III homepage, the big daddy of Realtime Strategy Games is coming. Age of Empires III. It will have full 3D graphics realistic water effects, shadows, and terrains. The screenshots at this site are really amazing. Whoever watched this site, vowed to buy the game as soon as it is launched. Unfortunately, the site does not mention the release date (it says, latter half of 2005).
AoE-III is looks very different compared to its ancestors. We don't have to manage iron and bronze civilizations. It tells the story of European and American people of 1500-1800 AD. AoE III introduces the concept of the Home City, the city which grows with your progress and supports you by sending ammunition and military reinforcements. This somewhat goes inline with Caesar III, where you can borrow money and food from Rome. And, it seems the combat animation and AI are drastically improved. The building destructions and infantry deaths are rendered on the fly to generate unique animation each time. I hate to play salesman for M$. But, I can't help it after seeing the site. I can't wait to play it.
I am just wondering why such games are not being developed by the open source community. I am aware of only Quake and its siblings (FPS games) available in Linux. Are there other games being developed for linux ? If not, why ? Hackers and nerds are supposed to the best gamers, aren't they ? Then, why this dearth of linux games ?
AoE-III is looks very different compared to its ancestors. We don't have to manage iron and bronze civilizations. It tells the story of European and American people of 1500-1800 AD. AoE III introduces the concept of the Home City, the city which grows with your progress and supports you by sending ammunition and military reinforcements. This somewhat goes inline with Caesar III, where you can borrow money and food from Rome. And, it seems the combat animation and AI are drastically improved. The building destructions and infantry deaths are rendered on the fly to generate unique animation each time. I hate to play salesman for M$. But, I can't help it after seeing the site. I can't wait to play it.
I am just wondering why such games are not being developed by the open source community. I am aware of only Quake and its siblings (FPS games) available in Linux. Are there other games being developed for linux ? If not, why ? Hackers and nerds are supposed to the best gamers, aren't they ? Then, why this dearth of linux games ?
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Constellation Big Tux and Giant wheel of Linux
Any guesses about what the above pictures represent ? They are drawing of lines of code in the Linux Kernel. The blue nebula shows 2.4.1 kernal and the wheel like diagram shows 2.4.0. Even though I am not sure about the value of these renderings, they look really amazing. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.brisset/kernel3d/kernel3d.html has an animation showing the growth of the Tux Nebula from v1.2.0 to v2.4.1.
http://fcgp.sourceforge.net/ is the source of the second picuture. The diagram above was originally a 22MB Postscript file.
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