Valve games for Mesa/DRI developers

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On 13 April 2015 at 15:06, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not much of a gamer myself, but I imagine that these games would be
> useful, real-life tests and/or entertaining benchmarks. Given that I
> work mostly on ARM systems, do you know if there are any plans on making
> these games available on ARM? I know some of Valve's games have been
> ported to ARM for Android, but perhaps there isn't enough of an audience
> to make it beneficial to get them to run on regular Linux on ARM?

I don't actually know myself, but even if I did, it wouldn't really be
for me to pre-empt Valve saying so. I agree it would be nice though!

Cheers,
Daniel

> Thierry
>
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 06:10:42PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> Hi,
>> At Collabora (my lovely dayjob), we've been working with Valve on
>> SteamOS. Valve are keen to give back to the community, and we've been
>> discussing ways they can help do that, including providing free access
>> to Valve games on Steam to Debian developers last year.
>>
>> We're happy to say that this has been extended to Mesa developers as
>> well, to say thanks for all the great work. If you have 25 commits or
>> more (an arbitrary number) to Mesa[0] in the past five years, please
>> drop me an email (with 'Steam' in the subject) with your freedesktop
>> username and Steam username. We can then get you access to all past
>> and future Valve-produced games available on Steam[1].
>>
>> Thanks for all the great work, and enjoy.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>>
>> [0]: Or DRI-type stuff in the kernel too.
>> [1]: Currently this looks like
>> https://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term=#category1=998&publisher=Valve&sort_order=ASC&page=1
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