LINUXGAMES

As mentioned before, the developers of Saga of RyzomGPL’ed their MMORPGtoolkit, the Nevrax Library,used to produce the game. As NeL compiles on Linux, the question of a Linuxport of Ryzom came up on their forums thissummer; a Nevrax rep made the followingreply:

A lot of things have changed since then, I would like to know if a nativeclient for linux is still planned. I’ve tried to get an answer at the latestdev chat but my question hasn’t been selected.

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Well, I can always say that yes, it’s still planned in the future… But can’tpromise anything, can’t give any date, so I don’t know how it will make you feel any better. :) We’re not changing our mind about GNU, NeL and opensource, however as aptenodi said we have at the moment too much work to do onthe Windows client to think about a Linux client yet. As far as I can tell,any option is a possible “yes” as long as nobody says “no”… You’ll have toask again in a next devchat. *hint*

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But that’s all we can say for now, really. You’re probably aware of the energyrequired to make the Windows version as polished as possible for release, justas well as you know Nevrax supports free software ; so this is really anundecided matter for now. :)

We’ll follow up with Nevrax once the Windows version is finalized; it’s also gratifying to see a company open-source the underlying codebase for their game even before it ships.

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