-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have updated the MOTU Games wikipage[1] with a little triaging. I picked the ones I thought looked nice to triage, mainly ones still in development and FPS games since that's what kids are into today.
I chose 4 games ready for packaging; 4 in development; and one with licensing issues. Also next to each entry is a short-hand note on what type of game it is. These are: FPS First-Person Shooter FPS:DM First-Person Shooter (DeathMatch) FPS:SP First-Person Shooter (SinglePlayer) RTS Real-Time Strategy GC Galactic Conquest (???) MMO Massively Multiplayer Online RPG Role-Playing Game (Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy style) TRPG Tactics Role-Playing Game (Ogre Battle or FFTactics style) PUZ Puzzle AXN Action ADV Adventure XPL Exploration (Rogue, NetHack) As a side note, the 4 development ones consist of two currently semi-playable games: FreeOrion and OpenArena. Also, Crystal Core should have a preview out on June 24, 2006. Others should get involved in triaging things in the New Games wiki[2]. This will help give more organization and structure to future packaging of games, in case the MOTU team decides to start working more forcefully there. On the topic of more concentrated game packaging effort, it may be wise to consider actually supporting some games in Main, and even devoting a specific team to this. Besides it being fun to have something to play, a real gaming team would give Ubuntu another marketable feature for another market niche. This would make a good Edgy+1 goal, because Edgy is going to be loaded as it is; of course, if some MOTU wants to get started working on it, it wouldn't be too stressful on main development. Likewise, if someone new out there wants to break into Ubuntu development and has an interest here, this is a great opportunity to get your hands dirty. It would be an interesting technology demo to produce an Ubuntu Gaming Edition, which installs without desktop productivity software but rather with a neat set of games. A companion CD, Ubuntu LAN Party, would facilitate the UGE LiveCD; no need to INSTALL Ubuntu on those die-hard Windows gamers, we can just pass out CDs at the LAN party (do you see the marketing angle here?) An UGE would suggest something else interesting. Normal ubuntu-desktop would be supplimented nicely with games post-install; but a strict gaming desktop doesn't need Gnome, and may in fact suggest whittling down the desktop system and siding with pure XFCE. To this end, ubuntu-gaming-edition could rely on ubuntu-desktop-environment, which could be supplied by ubuntu-desktop or xubuntu-desktop or kubuntu-desktop; or, if someone were so bold, separated DE packages that supplied bare GNOME/XFCE/KDE. Of course, nobody will go quite that far; supplying a desktop environment is probably smarter, with xubuntu-desktop suggested for its lightweight design. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Teams/Games [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Teams/Games/NEW - -- All content of all messages exchanged herein are left in the Public Domain, unless otherwise explicitly stated. Creative brains are a valuable, limited resource. They shouldn't be wasted on re-inventing the wheel when there are so many fascinating new problems waiting out there. -- Eric Steven Raymond We will enslave their women, eat their children and rape their cattle! -- Bosc, Evil alien overlord from the fifth dimension -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBRG/NsQs1xW0HCTEFAQKF+RAAmJXlJukemvBgL0RT1o2X12JF6xdiTMBM o6s3TNMdBhuW/o5hE+9rQnorf3eVJK88Nv4r8LabzprgSKsfj12MB5OIWn1QHrJc INhyxTGChQ+JvT9Gqd//h6hv+ySSyld1zTSI07PFh5ZToNqInuSz8H67q13PZg0o qUpvSg5xkcMHu65RkrW1QYwKRVhL1nr+BWyJjhGKtwKm0Uu+hIS34IH4o84wGVUv EsH0MoD8hslhgtsZKCAryQya+z/SxeBQZwYCqSeg/K5ArTqsehoqLZhrD3Cv+bOd Af76r0930LW5oCEptIKJ6DrFpYmR+r1FccpaQzBKvrbnzcgrYZkxRh/z6/PUlJIA LuINu3Hc92fG2TgW+QKmwSdeg2yRBw3iTQXIU/2MpbdVqSHE1106H4x9IzcXLq2I 9FwVb2X5I7pqZbRVhnQsSwDLPsw4h1/I6Ja7mznIXIwdINwzfk7SAA7YiBlJYn0+ zdctaCn5Ne+gPNWLRHQwk4Npd6JvITISR01vVMXp9poSenkeuiKT/v6j+BEJFLGb U5JNIPQhLfYb0cVT4BvGPHZD0Xj4IvdJIJxFif47nc4M5RuEBgtX9+GzZQbi5Dmh yh1af049XjANpcaIvP0ZFeAYJc2J9/4lIpAoYRZjBAUqSFU9hlZg++F39tqKlmzG DofGVVds+1M= =BO7P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
