[ug-bosug] [osol-discuss] Interest in Vendetta-Online for Solaris?

[Joe G (Joseph George)]

If you are interested in games and a Solaris evangelist this might be  
a great opportunity. This company is looking for some help from the  
community to make this game available on Solaris and provide ongoing  
support.

~Joe

Greetings,

I'm one of the devs of an MMOFPS/RPG called Vendetta Online ( http:// 
vendetta-online.com ).  We simultaneously release updates to our  
client (pretty much weekly) on Win32, MacOSX-PPC/X86, and Linux-X86/ 
AMD64.  We can compile for FreeBSD, but we don't because the linux  
compatability layer works fine and there's not much demand.  I'm now  
using NexentaCP on my main home desktop (due to interest in ZFS  
primarily) and we have our client working (with new native sun sound  
support) on this machine.  So, we could easily support the platform,  
but the small additional time we'd have to spend before releasing  
each update does add up when you release as often as we do. There's  
also the fact that I wouldnt be able to test it at the office without  
building another solaris box.

We're focused on a lot of other stuff that makes more business-sense  
than supporting additional niche platforms, so our default position  
is going to be not to bother.  I just wanted to give the opensolaris  
community a chance to change our minds.  It would only take a handful  
of people who would subscribe long-term, given solaris-support, to  
make it worth it, but I'm skeptical that the small demographic that  
likes non-consentual twitch-combat in space, intersected with the  
fraction of the solaris community that this message reaches will  
include anyone at all.

~Michael


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