Linux version of Construct?

There should be a Linux version of Construct. Something like this would be a great boon to fangame makers and casual game makers on Linux platform, since there is nothing like this on Linux.

I know that Construct currently uses DirectX quite heavily, but shouldn't it be possible to use SDL or Allegro or something else instead?

SDL or Allegro or something else instead?

I don't think so. Definitely not for v1.x

Might be a possibility for 2.0, but I have doubts that there will be runtimes other than DirectX. It's massive amounts of work.

Then again, some massive purple-skinned leprechaun might waddle into the source code and release a modified runtime in the current version of construct. It's open source, you never know.

It's possible, but given that we're all volunteers working in our free time, we'd rather hit the big market. Someone else is free to make a Linux version since it's all open source, but I doubt anyone will.

Edit 24th November 2009: removed some bot uselessness.