one of the selling points of the unreal engine is that it is platform independent (or at least it was a selling point). When you have the engine, you don't write C/C++ code which you then have to compile for multiple platforms, you write UnrealScript which you then compile for the Unreal Engine (read: Virtual Machine) (much like Java). Right now there is only high end 3D engine which can claim platform independence and that is iD's Doom3 engine (I am not counting Quake3 as it is pretty old at this point).
<br><br>If I am a game developer looking to capture the largest market I can, I am going to iD for their engine.<br><br>Unreal Tournament is a demonstration of the engine, much like Doom3 is a demonstration of iD's engine. One of the points of the demonstrations is which platforms are supported by the engine.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2007 8:04 AM, Thomas Ilnseher <<a href="mailto:ilnseher@eit.uni-kl.de">ilnseher@eit.uni-kl.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Am Montag, den 17.12.2007, 10:21 +0100 schrieb <a href="mailto:info@snakeservers.net">info@snakeservers.net</a>:<br><div class="Ih2E3d">><br>> This game is gonna be dead on this way<br></div>hey, I'm a Linux gamer myself, but:
<br><div class="Ih2E3d">> the linux gamers are the bigest group<br></div>for sure they aren't!<br><br>eg.: Valve does regularly hardware surveys using steam. this allowed to<br>identify wine users on steam (wine would show up
wine-alsa.drv as<br>sound-driver). Some info was posted on the valve website. 0.13% using<br>wine. That leaves 99,87% using windows ...<br><br>granted, as I _AM_ a linux gamer, I don't use steam, even though it does<br>
run in wine, but given that 7 out of 8 linux gamers think like me, this<br>would give roughly 1% of market share. This isn't enough to decide about<br>success or failure of a game<br><font color="#888888">--<br>Thomas Ilnseher <
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