Gaming category

Create a place where we linux users can shout out to the world "WE WANT TO PLAY ON UBUNTU LINUX"

Let us all sign and show the big companies that we exist and we are a potential marked that grows more and more every day!

Instead of asking the ubuntu team to make games work with ubuntu linux (which is quite stupid, hows that suposed to work and how much waste of development would that be?) make the gaming companies see that we exist and want support! Dont let all our requests get scattered and ignored over the www, make them all meet and bundle at one official ubuntu page.

There are games done for windows, mac, wii, ps3, psp and all other plataforms, why not ubuntu linux?

If the gaming world is able to visit a page and see "xxxxxxx ubuntu linux users want to play games!" why shouldnt they start doing it? It should be much easyer to develop games for a WORKING OS then for windows, with all its bugs and problems. That would mean less work for them, less support needed and more fun for us!

Please ubuntu team! Help us shout out!

Currently when playing any of the gnome games different score boards are saved for each user. In a family setting it would be desirable to have all users' scores displayed together in each game.

Off the bat: I'm not an avid PC Gamer.

However, I've found that ports of old games make a strong selling point when I'm trying to get a freeware/shareware gamer interested in Linux.

Id:
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Quake 4
Doom III
Return to Castle of Wolfenstein
Return to Castle of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Quake III Arena

3DRealms:
Duke Nukem 3D
etc.

Raven Software:
Hexen
Heretic
etc.

[From official site]

AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, is a free first-person-shooter based on the game Cube. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that´s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer fun.

http://assault.cubers.net/
http://assault.cubers.net/wiki/Main_Page

How about adding Savage: The Battle for Newerth into the repos, it's a freeware game not open source. In the similar fashion we get Adobe Flash we can also check mark the box to install this 3D game if we have the proper drives installed.

To install the game "Battle for Wesnoth", one can install the "wesnoth-all" package. But then, he doesn't get: 1) The "Map Editor", a fact which is probably OK. 2) The "Wesnoth Server" (wesnothd), a fact which is not that harmful. 3) Any sounds for the game, a fact which is totally unacceptable (you have to explicitly install the package "wesnoth-music" to have any music or sound in the game). And all these issues apply for the package "wesnoth-all", as I said. The package "wesnoth" is far worse. Since you install it, you don't get any of these above, plus much more (like the basic game scenarios!). So, I suggest a better packaging is made for "Battle for Wesnoth". For example the package "wesnoth" could be renamed to "wesnoth-core" and the packages "wesnoth-all" and "wesnoth-music" (and maybe "wesnoth-editor" and "wesnoth-server") could be merged to a single package, called "wesnoth". Thank you for your time, and I wish you good luck.

Please update the Sauerbraten-Repositories, current version in Synaptic is 0.0.20071227, and newest version is 0.0.20080620 (http://getdeb.net/app/Sauerbraten) and I don't want to install it from this source.

Many software programs which were distributed on CD for windows only, offer install programs especially for ubuntu on their websights. It would be nice if all one had to do to install Quake2, for instance, is insert the CD and go to Add/Remove programs where the specialized Ubuntu installer can be added.

This is already done in damn small linux.

I would like you to consider this Snes9x gtk port for the repos.

There are already a few variations on the Snes9x emulator in the repositories, but this is the only one I have seen so far that has a complete GUI and netplay. It is a great alternative to the Zsnes emulator, and is also updated and maintained on a regular basis.

More info here: http://www.snes9x.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3703

In Italy is Texas Hold'em mania!

please update the package in repository...

With KVM or Xen it is not easy to configure a new OS.
It should be a good idea to make a easy script to install virtualized Operating Systems.

For gamers wine is not enough.

But with gamers machines, the performance loose for using KVM (or XEN) virtualized, is similar to the gain of not have to put antivirus software.

Then a script that only asks you for a ISO or a CD/DVD for installation and generate after it a link that open that OS would be a great idea for gamers to migrate to Ubuntu.

As a marketing tool a installation with W98se, Xp and Vista, with a youtube video, and sysmarks tests native with antivirus and KVM VT without antivirus would be great.

This kind of installation would make gamers to prove opengel games natively under Linux, and they will choose it. Then more games would be provided natively for Linux.

I think that Ubuntu should have support for the shock wave plug in. At least, someone could make a free plugin that plays shock wave games

2DFighter does not work with linux. It does not work via wine either because apparently wine does not support .NET 3.5.

Can we please have 2DFighter for linux or some sort of equivalent which allows us to connect to the same network so we can challenge windows users?

Link to the website:
http://2dfighter.com/

Thread about the linux version:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=802089

There are beginning to be enough games available for the linux platform, that having a separate partition for all of them might be a good idea. This new type of partition would be designed with speed in mind. Maybe a journaling system that can defragment and only do so when nothing else is going on in the system. Another simpler method might just be to use a ext4 file system for the game partition.

Integrate Cedega in Ubuntu as default for powerful gaming features, for users who wanna playing on their desktops and laptops.