On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:14:42 +0100 (CET) Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I totally agree with this. Do you think about a best way to do this advice? A > message at the starting of the game? Putting a comment in the description? a > suitable DebTag for that? A weblog? > > Maybe we could also coordinate with debian-jr and/or debian-edu for making the > cassification?
Should this be just our own opinion, or should we rely on some external authority? This is a general problem for all distributions, not just Debian. Who else might have an interest in setting up a game rating system? > The main critic I can think of is how and who can classify the games, but I > think we could find a solution to that :) ESRB ratings are widely used and understood for commercial games. http://www.esrb.org/ The problem is, ESRB ratings are designed for the commercial game industry, so they're not really set up in a way that would work well for open source game developers. But perhaps we could borrow their categories. Ben -- ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] _______________________________________________ Pkg-games-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-devel
