Giant Bomb Presents: Why This Insane Designer Ported His Game About Linux to DOS

Cool.

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Dumptruck!

Back it on up!

DUMP THAT INTERVIEW DIRECTLY INTO MY MOUTH

Wait. I used to listen to Lunduke all the time when he was on The Linux Action Show. You're getting peanut butter in my jelly, Patrick!

Here's a link to the game, since Patrick was lazy enough not to post it.

http://lunduke.com/?page_id=2646

Fuck yeah Linux Action Show! Even though Bryan is not on it anymore it is still fun to watch/listen to.

The link's mentioned in the intro, Mr. Cranky Pants. :) I can't put a link in what will become an iTunes description!

That explains it. Yeah, I'll just go grab a beer and stop being so cranky! :) Have a good weekend!

BEEP! BEEP!

So they didn't stick with Interview Dumptruck? =(

Just want to mention that when you spell out the url in the intro you say lunduk.com I believe instead of lunduke.com. That was confusing for a little bit :P

I'm no expert but i think you're putting it into the wrong hole.

Guys I bought the game for like $3 and I still felt ripped off, just saying. There's really nothing to the actual gameplay and it lasted maybe 10 minutes before all possibility was wrung out of it.

I hate you too, R2.

Exactly

As for the interview - another typical Microsoft condescending *nix guy, how unexpected.

Bryan Lunduke used to be one of the co-hosts on the Linux Action Show. I've listened to hours and hours of him talking before he left. My head is exploding right now.

He used to say some pretty inflammatory stuff on there too. LAS is still the best Linux podcast out there.

Linux podcasts. Always wondered what the most niche podcast market could possibly be.

I love this guys level of enthusiasm when he talks about games. I gives me euphoria to continue working on mines.

Don't know about that. LAS gets (or got in its heyday) 100k+ listeners

This is niche, A BSD podcast:(BSD is another free Unix, like Linux. It has something analogous to distros, like FreeBSD, OpenBSD or PcBSD (That's the easy to use one))

Awe man, this guy just sounds like he has all the fun!

This was such a great story, Patrick. Thanks for recording it and putting it out for us to listen to. I think stories like this one are especially cool, regarding games I have never heard of but have a fascinating back-story. I'm going to check it out now!

Even DOS gets more games than Wii U....

I had been thinking of programming games with Dosbox in mind for it's portability for quite a while. Tracked down a bunch of Usenet game development posts from 1988-95 and an ancient gcc compiler for DOS a couple of years ago, but ultimately didn't do anything with it. Awesome to see someone actually doing this.

This reminds me so much of This American Life for video games.