Valve continues to hire Linux developers

Valve Software continues to hire well-known Linux experts, which is quite logical, considering the company's stated intentions to enter the new OS and rumors about the creation of the Valve Box console. More recently, leading developers of the DarkPlaces engine (cross-platform first-person shooters Xonotic and Nexuiz) and the creator of the cross-platform game Battle for Wesnoth have joined Valve.

The new acquisition of the corporation is Sam Lanting, who previously worked at Loki Software, where prior to the company's bankruptcy he ported some Windows games to Linux, for example, Rune, Tribes 2, Railroad Tycoon II, and many other hits from the late 90s. His experience in working with Linux is more than 10 years, it was Sam who created and continues to develop the popular cross-platform library Simple DirectMedia Layer , used when writing multimedia programs (mostly games) not only on Linux and Mac OS X, but also Windows.
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After the bankruptcy of Loki Software, Sam worked as a lead developer at Blizzard, where he worked on porting World of Warcraft to Linux, but the company decided to close the project. On Friday, Sam confirmed hiring on the SDL mailing list.



To assess the seriousness of the intentions of igrodel, it is worth remembering that the Linux-command in Valve, according to publicly available information, is not so small:

• Mike Sertyn, who worked on Microsoft Exchange in the 90s, then on the Xbox team, and later on at RAD Game Tools, where he was involved in Pixomatic software rendering. After Intel's takeover of Pixomatic, Mike and Michael Abrash, now working on wearable computers at Valve, designed the Larrabee architecture. Sertain has been working at Valve since 2011, and at the moment he is deeply involved in the project to create a Steam client for Linux. Mike is also a Linux kernel bug reporter.
• Rick Johnson, more than twenty years ago, started at Raven Software, who later worked at Activision, Gearbox Software, and in 2008 joined Valve.
• Scott Ludwig, still in the 80s working on Windows 1.0. Since 2004, he has worked for several years on Google, and later joined Valve.
• Forest Hale, creator of the open-source game engine DarkPlaces, a branch of the idTech 2 engine. Forest was engaged in porting Quake Live on Mac OS X and Linux.
• David White, a former Google engineer who created the open-source Battle for Wesnoth strategy.
• Starting next week - Sam Lating.
• As you know, tables workers Valve have wheels. During his last visit to the office, Michael Larabel noticed that Gabe Newell pushed his workplace to the Linux-sharashka, right where Sertain was sitting.

According to Michael Larabel , despite the stellar composition of the team, the corporation is still trying to hire more Linux kernel developers, driver experts and other “highly talented Linux developers.”