Contributor socceroos on the Gaming category
Out of Date Ubuntu Games
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Written by MighMoS the 28 Feb 08 at 16:35.
Global category: Gaming.
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Many games feature the ability to play with other people. However, the first thing the game will check for is to see if it is currently up to date.
When Ubuntu enters version freeze, the games fall out of date, and it can be harder to play them online without finding a 3rd party update or compiling it yourself (Freeciv, Scorched3D, and Battle for Wesnoth to name a few).
This also creates issues when different distributions freeze at different times, so it can be hard to play with other Linux users.
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Chess needs a "very easy" mode
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Written by Eldmannen the 18 Mar 08 at 02:03.
Global category: Gaming.
Not an idea
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Our easiest chess mode is too difficult. I can beat it some times, but it requires a lot of difficulty.
This is too hard - we need a "very easy" chess mode that a complete chess beginner, or even a 10 year old, could conceivably beat.
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Partner with big name game developers
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Written by heavyal the 29 Feb 08 at 22:32.
Global category: Gaming.
Won't implement
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This is total pie in the sky but it would be great to see some kind of partnership with the big gaming companies such as EA, Blizzard, Bethesda or some such where we could actually work with them in bringing their outstanding game releases to our platform.
Developer comments
This cannot be done just by the Ubuntu community or Canonical alone. The only true way to achieve any action by the big commercial game developers is to have (lots and lots of) individual gamers contact the support-teams of those companies and demand that they want to be able to play their games natively on their Ubuntu machines. They have to point out that native really means a native port and not one of those half-hearted wine-solutions. id Software and Epic can do it so it cannot be that hard. There are even first rumours that Valve is planning to port their Source-engine natively to Linux.
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I don't think Wine ports count as "half-hearted". When Wine supports the application, a Wine port is fully functional and full speed - what more could you want?
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Support popular types of games
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Written by Kent88 the 3 Mar 08 at 00:13.
Global category: Gaming.
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People like games, and while Linux has done very well with the card games, minesweeper and tetris type games, lets get some games that people can really get excited about.
How about starting or supporting one each of a
1)First Person Shooter (FPS)
2)Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG)
3)Real Time Strategy Game (RTS)
4)Other popular game types that Linux lacks (Other people, submit your ideas)
I have seen these types of games on linux, and some of them have been pretty good, but not many people know about them. Start new or support existing game projects that work on most Linux platforms, and make them something to be excited about.
If we can have Linux games that people are excited about and like playing we will have less and less need for WINE and dual-boot machines. (although I personally appreciate the WINE developers, they work really hard).
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