..on or around Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 04:55:18PM +1300, Douglas Bagnall said:
> Julian Oliver wrote:
> 
> > do you have any video documentation of the setup at Te Tuhi?
> 
> no. didn't think of that in time.
> 
> > worth mentioning i think you should submit it to:
> >
> >     http://www.indiecade.com/
> 
> 
> Well I would, except for 2 things. To quote
> http://www.indiecade.com/index.php?/events/submissions/
> 
> >>     Submit the $25 processing fee.
> 
> I've given up on anti-royalties.  They just don't seem to work for
> me.  Maybe I should start a festival.

i didn't know they now had a fee. that's disappointing.

> 
> And:
> 
> >>    If you plan to submit a work that is on a non-standard game
> >>    operating system (e.g., Linux), please plan to have a
> >>    representative on-site to be responsible for installation, or to
> >>    supply hardware with the game fully installed to the Festival.
> 
> It's the indie-but-not-too-indie-cade.  I can understand that they
> have limited technical resources, but I can't work out how they
> figured Linux was non-standard for indie games. This just makes it
> impossible for me.

i have to confess that Fijuu2 - a game a friend and i had in the last
edition - is perhaps the unspoken culprit there. 

despite having made double-click-and-go Debian packages, their local
Linux whiz chose to ignore our README and decided to attempt to compile
it from source (for some bizarre reason). his needless sweat and cursing
directed their opinions of Linux-as-game-platform.

cheers,

-- 
julian oliver
http://julianoliver.com
http://selectparks.net
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