Re: On gratitude and free software

2023-09-11 Thread Dennis Payne
ntative for free software. I personally disagree but that is fine. Unfortunately I don't have any good suggestions on how to improve gratitude. -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi ___ libreplan

Re: Voting machines not AI code

2023-08-16 Thread Dennis Payne
oter forms or changed the data on the drive or whatever. -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss

More Free Software Game Work

2023-03-31 Thread Dennis Payne
Perish as well. Not sure if I will make a dev log video about that or not. -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.librepla

Fight or Perish

2023-03-31 Thread Dennis Payne
Fight or Perish is a free software clone of Gauntlet. It never really progressed past a prototype from the original creator. I've been working to fix it up. I've written an Open Game Source article about my work. https://identicalsoftware.com/games/fop -- Denni

Re: Mojotron: Robot Wars

2022-10-11 Thread Dennis Payne
r purchase from itch.io https://dulsi.itch.io/mojotron-robot-wars On Sat, 2022-08-06 at 07:03 -0400, Dennis Payne wrote: > As an experiment in funding free software games, I have created a > kickstarter. (I'm sure some people will say I shouldn't use a > proprietary site like that

Mojotron: Robot Wars

2022-08-07 Thread Dennis Payne
ckstarter is: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/850526497/mojotron-robot-wars -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.

LibrePlanet Free Software Game Trailer Reel

2022-07-25 Thread Dennis Payne
version of ClanLib to run it. -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss

Re: People calling the GPLs 'evil licenses' - action plan?

2022-05-17 Thread Dennis Payne
Having one person consider GPL an evil license isn't a big deal. I wouldn't waste a lot of time trying to convert him. Nor would I send them a link to long essay explaining the situation. wolftune's argument is the simplest. However since you already sent him an offensive article, I doubt any argum

Re: access to talks

2022-03-21 Thread Dennis Payne
They are not available yet. They will be putting them online as soon as they can but I don't know how fast that will be. I didn't catch most talks on Sunday. I did catch most of the keynote and found it interesting. I also liked the talk on TRBot on Saturday. Does anyone have any talks they liked

Re: Announcing Zoë Kooyman as our new executive director

2022-03-03 Thread Dennis Payne
I too found your post rather insulting. Not for questioning her existence. That I can chalk up to joke. More for the "nor saw her to do anything in Free Software" comment. I know she does work for LibrePlanet. I suspect she can be found in a number of the videos for previous years. On Thu, 2022-03

Re: FSF continuously harms Free Hardware

2022-02-01 Thread Dennis Payne
free hardware movement as still in an early adopter stage. As such promoting it won't accomplish much because it is not ready for people. Since FSF has more technically minded members, maybe endorsing free hardware can help development. But I don't think there is a lot of evidence for

Re: FSF continuously harms Free Hardware

2022-01-30 Thread Dennis Payne
SF isn't going to do development of Free Hardware. Their endorsement isn't that important at this point. -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet

Re: [FSFLA] LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2022-01-19 Thread Dennis Payne
games and generally contact about developer about it. Feel free to reach out to other game developers. I enjoy hearing about why people make games. On Fri, 2022-01-14 at 16:26 +0100, Ismael Luceno wrote: > On 07/Jan/2022 18:23, Dennis Payne wrote: > <...> > > Most people developin

Re: [FSFLA] LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2022-01-08 Thread Dennis Payne
ave an idea for a novel and want to write it. Some will pursue publishing it. Some will self publish perhaps even knowing it won't be a giant seller. Some will just give it away. -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://m

Re: [FSFLA] LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2022-01-06 Thread Dennis Payne
that if you have to buy them. On itch.io I believe the only thing you can do is make it "pay what want". -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss

Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2022-01-04 Thread Dennis Payne
b works it lists all games from the various connected stores. I don't think this would work for distribution games. Fedora includes a lot of games and I think it would quickly become unmanageable. I think you would need to display only those installed and allow a search for more to install. --

Mari0 Revamp

2022-01-03 Thread Dennis Payne
nsters and tiles with content from opengameart (with some modifications). If anyone wants to contribute some replacement art send it or create a pull request. (Levels, sound and music will also be needed.) https://github.com/dulsi/mari0 -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware

Re: Global Game Jam

2022-01-01 Thread Dennis Payne
I mentioned on the FreeGameDev site that the game jam portion of Liberated Pixel Cup was not a success and someone disagreed with me. The problem was we had different definitions of success. I want games that I can still play now and perhaps even see improvements. He looks at it as they produced so

Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2022-01-01 Thread Dennis Payne
Was it a success? It created a lot of additional artwork in the style of lpc. In that respect I consider it great. But did the jam entries amount to anything. Here is a list of entries: https://libregamewiki.org/Liberated_Pixel_Cup I just looked at a few links. Several github links no longer work

Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2022-01-01 Thread Dennis Payne
game, he probably liked that other game more. My Gamerzilla test site is: http://108.49.106.217/ http://identicalsoftware.com/gamerzilla/ -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi ___ libreplanet-discuss

Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2021-12-29 Thread Dennis Payne
not allow non-free tools to build the game. I agree that using itch.io for the jam would be easiest but I don't think the site is free software. Many of the tools they create are such as the itch.io app and butler. -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://mastod

Re: federated free software movement

2021-11-29 Thread Dennis Payne
On Tue, 2021-11-23 at 18:02 +, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss wrote: > Hi > I think this may be it > > https://stallman.org/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?path=/articles/encyclopedia.html&term=encyclopedia&type=norm&case=0 > >  From https://stallman.org I can't help but feel this is impossible to

Re: federated free software movement

2021-11-16 Thread Dennis Payne
I don't see how a federated wikipedia would work. Even if you banned obvious trolls, how would you deal with contentious issues? Federation isn't some magical technologies that immediately makes everything better. An emphasis on self-hosting is not a good idea in my opinion. It is great that we ar

Re: Linux distro chooser

2021-10-25 Thread Dennis Payne
I find that distribution mostly doesn't matter. Sure something like gentoo is going to be hard but the choice of general distribution is of limited importance. Most things people want to do are supported by every general distribution. The exception ironically is fsf endorsed distributions because

Re: Blind user complaining on Adobe web site

2021-05-08 Thread Dennis Payne
On Sat, 2021-05-08 at 20:52 +0300, Jean Louis wrote: > * Dennis Payne [2021-05-08 19:20]: > > Connecting at a lower level would probably give worse results. For > > Gnome software for example, I don't believe they write text using > > the X > > Windows fun

Re: Blind user complaining on Adobe web site

2021-05-08 Thread Dennis Payne
Connecting at a lower level would probably give worse results. For Gnome software for example, I don't believe they write text using the X Windows functions. Instead they handle that themselves and send the image result to X. Additionally X Windows is generally on the way out with Wayland being the

Open Alchemist and Alchemy Quest

2021-04-20 Thread Dennis Payne
good values for the achievements would be. -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listi

Re: Support RMS

2021-04-13 Thread Dennis Payne
er you believe RMS should be in charge or you don't. -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.or

Witch Blast adds Gamerzilla support

2021-04-05 Thread Dennis Payne
illa/dulsi -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss

Re: RMS is back on board

2021-03-26 Thread Dennis Payne
ew sprites clash in style so as to not infringe on the copyright of the original art. Even something as simple as tweaking a pause screen to add some information may require altering some graphics. A free game with non-free content effectively makes it non-free because some changes

Re: The sad decline of copyleft software licenses? :(

2020-09-28 Thread Dennis Payne
eating new projects with GPL. You don't even have to include any code in the project. -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org ht

Re: Parabola-rM: Desktop GNU/Linux on E-Paper Tablet

2020-09-02 Thread Dennis Payne
On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 18:41 -0500, quiliro wrote: > Davis Remmel writes: > > > > http://www.davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm/install-guide-latest.pdf > > http://www.davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm/ > > I cannot open either web page with Emacs eww. Can anybody else open > it? Yes the pages work

Re: Practicality of GNU project and libre movement

2020-07-24 Thread Dennis Payne
than I believe.) You have companies like Cygnus (purchased by Redhat), Redhat, and others which pay for development. -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libr

Gamerzilla

2020-06-17 Thread Dennis Payne
ibrePlanet 2020. -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss