Comments on: Ophiuchus 0.3.1.2

By: Svartalf_

Svartalf_ — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:00:22 +0000

Tribal Trouble from Oddlabs is a 100% Java based 3D RTS game (Amazing feat, no?) that plays smoothly on most modern machines and is rather fun to play to boot. I played the demo and then promptly (well, as promptly as my budget permitted…) bought it from them.

It’s all about playability for me- I don’t care what the game is built with as long as the systems requirements aren’t ludicrous, it plays well, and is fun to play.

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Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:40:57 +0000

If the game runs on linux and its fun, then the fact that its written in java is irrelevant.

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Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:34:14 +0000

As long as the game is good I don’t cara about the language it it written in. It’s all up to the game developer to make it good.

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Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:28:45 +0000

This particular java game is a console game, there’s no GUI as such.

It simply runs in an xterm or other console:
java -jar Ophiuchus.jar

Java applications run nicely on Linux (I use both FC3 and SuSE 9.3) when used with Java Runtime 1.5:
http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp

Regarding “do LinuxGames readers care about Java-based games?”, if it runs under Linux natively isn’t that what’s important?

Otherwise we should ask the same question regarding PERL, Python or any other programming language that requires a virtual machine/runtime-engine.

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Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:03:20 +0000

whats wrong with Java games? Is there another Java games site I should go look at instead? Just because it is Java does that mean it will play on Linux?