Hi, I just packaged kbilliards ;)
It's on revu. if you like it add it to the games new to ubuntu regards, \sh On Sunday 21 May 2006 04:17, John Richard Moser wrote: > 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 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
