Hi, another new one here. So to sum it up this is a team of people who will promote the use of Linux (ubuntu as its main distro) as a gamming plataform?.
If that's so, i would really like to know how can i help. Reffering a previous question, i have some experience hosting lan parties (not official ones, but with a participation of 50-100 people), since i live in a small city (of a small country). It would be nice to see a bit more information to clarify ideas. Sorry for my english (its not my main language). nz. www.zonical.net On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Ioan Calin Borcoman <[email protected]>wrote: > 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<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-gaming> > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : > > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-gaming> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-gaming> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-gaming> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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