Linux Game Publishing :: Michael Simms, AKA Comic Book Guy, AKA CBG

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On my way back from Porto, Portugal, I was in a Newsagents looking for a Developer or Linux magazine to read on the plane; when I noticed on the front of Linux Format is my colleague CBG (Michael Simms) - wearing a suit and tie I might add. Totally shocked I bought the magazine and could not wait to read the artical. CBG's company Linux Games Publishing, AKA LGP, ports Windows games over to Linux; therefore we can get rid of that 50GB Windows XP partition only used to play that odd game when we get a spare 5 minutes.

CBG heads both Linux Game Publishing (LGP) and Tux Games (TG) - I bet that keeps him busy, is that why you have not shaved in a while?

The interview highlights:
- CBG ploughed £350,000 of his own money on the back of the dotcom boom.
- 10 years later and still going strong LGP and TG are releasing several games per year
- Original game releases in the pipe line
- Large games take many months with a small team of developers to port over
- X3 was ported in a week apart from the graphics

Resource: Linux Format Magazine August 09, p48

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£350k really? That is quite a lot! Is that over the last 10 years?

If so then that equates to 35k a year - comparing that to a salary, it is an ok salary for an average developer (by average I mean a developer who does it as a job not a true geek who continues to push the boundaries and their skill in their own time).

Linux Game Publishing :: Michael Simms, AKA Comic Book Guy, AKA CBG