TransGaming is a company which provides software ([WineX]) and solutions (so far, offering to port games for other companies, using [WineX] as a [library] in order to [quickly] and [easily] do these ports) to allow [games] which have been written for [Windows] to run under "[other platforms]" (currently just [Linux]).

They could be viewed as a [competitor] in a [niche] previously occupied by solely by [Loki Games].

The company was founded in 2000 by [Gavriel State], who has done a lot of work on [WINE] in the past.

They have a rather [unique] [business model]. While they are [releasing all their source code] (with the [exception] of some of the [copy protection] code at present), they are [licensing] some of their [WineX] code under the [AFPL], and they're only going to [release it] back to the main [WINE] tree under the [Wine license] if they have at least 20,000 gamers subscribing to their [subscription plan].

Subscribing to their plan gives [gamers] the [ability to vote] for the games and features they want TransGaming to work on and file [bug reports] which are guaranteed to be [acted upon]. Of course, users can also [unsubscribe] and thus [deprive] TransGaming of their [money] if they're [not happy].

They [claim] their subscription system will lead to [increased user participation] in the [development process], as well as [giving them] a viable [revenue stream].

Other people listed on TransGaming's [website] as being part of their [management team] are [Vikas Gupta] ([President & COO]) and [Cathy Tanner], ([Director of Marketing & Communications]).

They have ported [The Sims] to [Linux], and are currently selling it as part of the [Mandrake 8.1 Gaming Edition].

They have a [list of games], along with details of how well they [do or do not work], on their website, along with [information] on how to [subscribe].

TransGaming (thing)