Timothee Besset
Timothee Besset | |
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![]() Timothee "TTimo" Besset at QuakeCon 2007 | |
Other names | TTimo |
Spouse | Christine[1] |
Website | http://ttimo.typepad.com/ |
Timothée Besset (also known as TTimo) is a French
He has been occasionally called "zerowing", but he has never gone by that name himself. It is derived from the community oriented system zerowing.idsoftware.com, of which the Linux port pages were the most prominent. The system was actually named by Christian Antkow based on the Zero Wing meme.[4]
Life and career
Besset grew up in
His first actual porting project came with the release of
He also worked on the Quake Live project, with the game entering an invitation-based closed beta in 2008 and an open beta on February 24, 2009, with Linux and Macintosh support coming on August 18, 2009.[21] In response to fears by some in the Linux gaming community that id would abandon Linux with its future titles, on September 13, 2009 in a well publicized statement he reaffirmed id's support of Linux, stating in his blog that "Fundamentally nothing has changed with our policy regarding Linux games... I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done".[22][23][24]
In January 2012, Besset resigned from id Software, ending hope for future Linux builds (though
On July 2, 2012, he was announced to have joined Frozen Sand, which was then developing Urban Terror HD.[27]
In September 2016, he ported Rocket League to SteamOS/Linux with the help of Ryan C. Gordon[28][29]
As of January 2024 he was reported as working on the Linux
Games credited
- Quake III Arena
- Urban Terror
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
- Doom 3
- Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
- Quake 4
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- Quake Live
- Rocket League
See also
- Dave D. Taylor
- Ryan C. Gordon
References
- ^ id Software. Doom 3 (PC). Activision. Level/area: Primary Excavation: Artifact Dig.
To my wonderful wife Christine for 'putting up with me' through the years
See: http://members.iinet.net.au/~tmorrow/doom3/emails.html#Thanks.. - ^ a b JeuxLinux, Entretien avec Timothée Besset
- ^ Network Performance Daily, ID Software Developer Timothee Besset on Network Performance in Games
- ^ Piga Software Forum, Piga Software Congratulates...
- LinuxGames, August 22, 2004
- ^ Linux Quake III Arena Update Blues's News, May 22, 2001
- ^ Quake 3 Arena takes Linux by force Archived 2018-10-22 at the Wayback Machine LinuxWorld, December 3, 2001
- LinuxGames, Aug 23, 2002
- ^ On Wolf's Goldness Blue's News, November 15, 2001
- ^ Wolfenstein Patch Clarifications Inside Mac Games, August 27, 2002 (Article by Andy Largent)
- ^ DOOM III for GNU/Linux Released LinuxHardware.org, October 05, 2004
- ^ Doom3 Linux and Windows Battlegrounds Anand Tech, October 13, 2004 (Article by Kristopher Kubicki)
- ^ Doom 3 Linux Performance Analyzed LinuxHardware.org, October 12, 2004
- Phoronix, October 20, 2005
- ^ Quake 4 and Serious Sam 2 for Linux jeuxvideo.fr, October 3, 2005
- ^ GPL GtkRadiant Blue's News, February 17, 2006
- ^ Herné novinky & zaujímavosti 5 LinuxExpres, October 8, 2006 (Article by linuxexpres in Czech)
- Phoronix, October 19, 2007
- ^ Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Mac Version Confirmed? Inside Mac Games, April 23, 2007 (Article by Cord Kruse)
- ^ Linux version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars comes Pro-Linux.de, June 28, 2007 (Article by Mirko Lindner)
- Phoronix, August 19, 2009
- ^ Rage and other Tech5 games might be Linux-friendly Neoseeker, September 14, 2009
- ^ Kommender Id-Titel Rage auch für Linux ? PC Games Hardware, September 17, 2009
- ^ Rage probablement sous Linux NoFrag, September 15, 2009
- ^ Onwards !, TTimo's blog, January 26, 2012
- ^ Chalk, Andy (2013-02-06). "John Carmack Argues Against Native Linux Games". The Escapist. Archived from the original on 2014-01-13. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
I don't think that a good business case can be made for officially supporting Linux for mainstream games today, and Zenimax doesn't have any policy of 'unofficial binaries' like Id used to have... I have argued for their value (mostly in the context of experimental Windows features, but Linux would also benefit), but my forceful internal pushes have been for the continuation of Id Software's open source code releases, which I feel have broader benefits than unsupported Linux binaries."
- ^ Code Wizard TTimo joins Frozen Sand
- ^ Rocket League thoughts on Linux, initial port report, it's also 25% off right now
- ^ Dawe, Liam (2016-09-15). "Interview with Timothee Besset, formerly of id Software, who helped port Rocket League to Linux". GamingOnLinux. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
- ^ Rudra, Sourav (2024-01-18). "Valve is Not Happy With Ubuntu's Snap Version of Steam". It's FOSS. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
- ^ Dougherty, Mark (2023-04-13). "An Interview with Timothée Besset, Valve Contractor". Linux Gaming Central. Archived from the original on 2023-06-06. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
- ^ Gonsalves, Amarylisa (2023-09-30). "Counter Strike 2 in Linux: Is CS2 Available on Linux?". Sportsmanor. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
Additionally, players playing on Linux must remember that going by what developer Timothee "TTimo" Besset had earlier said, the game has been thoroughly tested on the Windows version but considerably less on the Linux version. Thus players are advised to report any bug they come across while playing CS2 on Linux.
External links
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