Hi, I came here via Phoronix. I was very excited by the news, but I'm a bit puzzled by the purpose of this group, too.
I am a wannabe game developer and was hoping that Ubuntu has plans for something like 'Google Summer of Code' - in this case, funding and supporting game developers to create and polish games that run natively on Linux and are distributed as OpenSource, for the code, and OpenSource or OpenContent, for the content. Or something like Blender.org does where they assemble a team with a specific project in mind. As a game developer you need nice libs. But in order to be able to deliver a game, you also need nice graphics, sounds and levels. Unfortunately, what is really missing are these last resources. Ubuntu and the other distros that make money from distributing Linux could hire artists, musicians, sound effect professionals to create such content and make it available under an OpenContent license so that every potential game developer can use it. Is this possible? Thanx, Ionutz On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Arc Riley <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it's been brought up before, but needs to be re-raised, this new > team is in need of clarification as to it's purpose. > > The team is not part of either MOTU or Debian packagers, discussion about > getting new games packaged and existing packages updated is great, and there > seems to be some packagers on this team, but such discussion seems > misplaced. > > Ubuntu is a distribution, there is some software developed for Ubuntu > (workflow, installation, user experience) but projects as big as writing > games - which would be equally useful on other Linux distros, really don't > belong here. We're building up the Copyleft Games Group to umbrella such > projects. > > On the launchpad, this team is listed as part of Ubuntu Marketing. Let's > focus on that - the games that we already have need some hype, building > player community around them, encouraging LoCos to host lan parties, and > when new copyleft games come down the pipe working to promote them as a way > to promote Ubuntu. > > Without a clearly defined scope I'm worried this team isn't going to be very > effective, just a lot of people with different ideas about what this team is > for announcing their interests but little constructive progress toward any > one goal. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
