Callum Lerwick wrote: >[...] >> The last few days I was looking for an open game lobby system. I guess >> most of you will know Steam, Gamespy, Windows-Live and others. It seems >> as there is no real open alternative to those systems. Some place where >> I can see running gameservers of serveral games, chat with my friends, >> see what they are playing etc. > > Yes, we need this. We already have the content delivery part down, but > we lack the community.
What exactly do you mean by having the content delivery part down? The package managers of the different Linux distributions? Yes this works pretty good, and I guess Linux is here a step or two ahead of other platforms :) . And yes, a "gaming community" would be awesome. >[...] > What we should probably do is lay out some use cases we want to see. > Like from Steam: > > Friend starts playing Team Fortress 2. I get a popup alerting me that > "<name> is playing TF2" > I open my friends list, right click on their name, and click "Join". > TF2 automatically starts and connects me to the same game server > they're on. Use cases are always a good idea. We should get them all in a wiki some time soon. I like the flavor of this one because it shows something important: Desktop integration. Best regards - Sven
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