defunct industry interactive entertainment founded november 9 1998 defunct 2001 headquarters tustin california united states key people scott draeker founder sam lantinga lead programmer number of employees approx . 10 1 website www.lokigames.com archived loki entertainment software inc. was a video game developer based in tustin california united states that ported several video games from microsoft windows to linux . it took its name from the norse deity loki . 2 although successful in its goal of bringing games to the linux platform the company eventually closed due to financial troubles 3 with it declaring chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in august 2001 4 5 and finally being disbanded in january 2002 . 1 6 contents 1 history 2 legacy 3 games published 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit loki software was founded on november 9 1998 by scott draeker a former lawyer who became interested in porting games to linux after being introduced to the system through his work as a software licensing attorney . by december of that year loki had gained the rights to produce a port of activision s then upcoming strategy game civilization call to power for linux . 7 this was to become loki s first actual product with the game hitting stores in may 1999 . 8 from there they gained contracts to port many other titles such as myth ii soulblighter railroad tycoon ii and eric s ultimate solitaire . 9 throughout the next two years up until its eventual closure the company would continue to bring more games to linux . 10 legacy edit loki software although a commercial failure is credited with the birth of the modern linux game industry . loki developed several free software tools such as the loki installer also known as loki setup and supported the development of the simple directmedia layer . they also started the openal audio library project now being run by creative technology and apple inc. and with id software wrote gtkradiant . these are still often credited as being the cornerstones of linux game development . 11 they also worked on and extended several already developed tools such as gcc and gdb . 12 the book programming linux games by loki software and john r. hall is recognized as one of the prominent tutorials for the simple directmedia layer . many of loki s free tools are still actively used and being developed often by former employees of the company many of them having moved to other computer game or linux companies . loki also offered a start to many figures still in the linux and gaming industries . ryan c. gordon also known as icculus a former employee of loki has been responsible for the linux and mac os x ports of many commercial games after the demise of the company . mike phillips would help start linux game publishing which was itself founded in response to loki s closure . 13 nicholas vining would go on to do some porting work and is currently the lead programmer at gaslamp games which would later release their game dungeons of dredmor for linux . 14 15 sam lantinga would also later join blizzard entertainment and found galaxy gameworks to commercially support the simple directmedia layer ; he would later also join valve corporation s linux team . 16 although many loki ports are unsupported since loki s closure linux game publishing managed to pick up the rights to mindrover and offer a supported and updated version of the game s linux port . id software picked up the support for the linux release of quake iii arena 17 hiring timothee besset to maintain it ; he would later also be responsible for porting some of id s later products to linux . 18 running with scissors to celebrate the release of the movie postal in 2007 published a multiplayer only version of postal 2 videogame without the single player campaign . 19 in 2004 the source header files were released freely by human head . 20 but so far no one has updated the linux version though the company stated that a game sequel is in the making and delayed the development of prey 2 . 21 software contractor frank c. earl claimed in 2010 to hold the porting rights for the entire myth series and says he will port it to linux . 22 kevin bentley worked in 2009 on a descent 3 patch for linux 23 which was re released in 2014 on steam by rebecca heineman who got blessed source code access . 24 in october 16 2011 project magma released a new version of myth 2 for linux . 25 26 linux installers for linux gamers also offers installers for many loki titles to help them run better on modern systems . games published edit civilization call to power was the first game ported by loki postal plus was the last game ported by loki title platforms x86 32 powerpc sparc alpha civilization call to power yes yes yes yes descent 3 yes no no no descent 3 mercenary expansion as downloadable installer only yes no no no eric s ultimate solitaire yes yes yes yes heavy gear ii yes no no no heavy metal f.a.k.k. yes no no no heretic ii yes no no no heroes of might and magic iii yes yes no no kohan immortal sovereigns yes no no no mindrover yes no no no myth ii soulblighter yes yes no no postal plus yes no no no railroad tycoon ii gold edition yes yes no no quake iii arena yes no no no rune yes no no no rune halls of valhalla expansion yes no no no sid meier s alpha centauri planetary pack 27 yes yes no yes sim city 3000 unlimited world edition yes no no no soldier of fortune yes no no no tribes 2 yes no no no unreal tournament as downloadable installer only yes no no no in addition to the published titles there is also an unfinished port of deus ex . the later update of deus ex for microsoft windows features the opengl driver for the unreal engine from loki software s linux port . this makes the title more compatible with wine . see also edit linux game publishing linux installers for linux gamers ryan c. gordon references edit a b loki s draeker if i had to do it over i d create linux native games newsforge january 24 2002 loki entertainment software when s the ipo linux today april 12 1999 powell dennis e. april 9 2002 . loki a promising plan gone terribly wrong . linuxandmain.com . retrieved january 14 2011 . dead link founder creditors differ as to loki s future course linux today august 17 2001 linux game publisher runs out of funds geek.com august 14 2001 http www.icculus.org news news.php id 209 interview scott draeker and sam latinga loki entertainment linux journal august 1 1999 civilization call to power for linux ships linux today may 7 1999 loki releases three more games for linux idg news service may 18 1999 loki retrospective linuxgames august 13 2001 does ragnarok for loki spell doom for linux games it world february 28 2002 article by eric foster johnson an interview with loki games scott draeker o reilly media march 3 2000 article by j. s. kelly interview with lgp s mike phillips linuxhardware.org june 16 2003 classic roguelike dungeons of dredmor is coming to gnu linux soon linux gaming news july 19 2010 coming soon dungeons of dredmor linuxgames october 24 2010 valve picks up another all star linux developer phoronix july 14 2012 quake 3 arena takes linux by force linuxworld december 3 2001 interview with id software s timothee besset linuxgames august 22 2004 postal 2 share the pain demo is a fps game for linux retrieved from http linux.softpedia.com june 13th 2008 . human head studios releases rune headers . humanhead.com . september 28 2004 . archived from the original on october 13 2004 . retrieved december 30 2012 . source human head hasn t worked on prey 2 since november retrieved from shacknews.com 04 19 2012 post by frank svartalf earl descent3 1.5 patch development update on youtube 2009 oldeskuul on facebook.com 2014 myth 2 for linux redux on linuxgames.com myth ii v1 .7.2 for linux plant emmett october 9 2000 . loki in the trenches . linux.com . retrieved february 5 2011 . external links edit official website icculus.org ryan gordon s site hosting many loki projects as well as other linux gaming resources activision and loki partner to bring games to linux linux pr october 11 1999 linux.com loki in the trenches interview with loki software staff v t e video games ported by loki entertainment strategy civilization call to power heroes of might and magic iii kohan immortal sovereigns sid meier s alpha centauri myth ii soulblighter first person shooters quake iii arena soldier of fortune tribes 2 unreal tournament descent 3 simulations railroad tycoon ii gold edition simcity 3000 heavy gear ii mindrover the europa project other games eric s ultimate solitaire deus ex heavy metal f.a.k.k. heretic ii postal plus rune halls of valhalla people sam lantinga ryan c. gordon related articles simple directmedia layer openal gtkradiant programming linux games linux installers for linux gamers tux games retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title loki entertainment & oldid 739446807 categories companies disestablished in 2002defunct video game 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