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Idea #14142: Replace Robots Game with Frozen-Bubble

Written by Rich the 6 Oct 08 at 19:36. Related project: Frozen-Bubble. Status: New
Rationale
This is some of the result of my findings on converting my housemates to Ubuntu:

"This Robots game really sucks!"
"Yeah.. it does. Here, try Frozen-Bubble."
"This is like crack!"

In short, Robots isn't fun and looks like it was made by a high schooler and Frozen-Bubble is addicting and looks professional.

It's amazing how much time people spend on the default games that come with a computer, so please replace the lame no-fun stinker with the best F/OSS puzzle game out there.

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Written by Rich the 6 Oct 08 at 19:36.
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Faryshta wrote on the 6 Oct 08 at 21:24
Just an issue, robots is part of the package Gnome-Games or something like that. If you remove robots, also remove all the other games, so I think is best idea to include Frozen as default.

Eldmannen wrote on the 6 Oct 08 at 22:38
"This is like crack!" lol

Ghone wrote on the 7 Oct 08 at 00:13
Any other crack users willing to try Frozen-Bubble and compare the two?

cardinals_fan wrote on the 7 Oct 08 at 01:09
Robots is stupid, but some of the other gnome-games programs are essential to my survival (Mahjongg and Tetravex, in particular).

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 7 Oct 08 at 01:24
Robots is like crack to my kids. Keep it.

vexorian wrote on the 7 Oct 08 at 01:35
I love robots.

There is no reason to remove it for frozen bubble.
Frozen bubble is a great game, but really, -1 because robots should stay.

vexorian wrote on the 7 Oct 08 at 01:36
(I mean, frozen bubble can easily be added without having to remove robots)

HaydenMicallef wrote on the 8 Oct 08 at 09:13
I don't get robots...
The game doesn't really make sense (I get how to play, but where's the skill?)
Although my and a friend laughed for a few minutes when we got to the first "Yahoo!!"

Rabbid wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 00:16
I would actually support switching it out with Monkey Bubbles, because it is more integrated with GNOME.

emancu wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 04:52
Robots its great! there is another game like robots called pirates! but you must pay for play... so.. i keep installed robot ^^

-1

Psycho_zs wrote on the 10 Oct 08 at 19:00
Unfortunately, Frozen Bubble has many dependencies and it is itself 30+MB, So it wouldn't fit in live-cd.
But on live-dvd or some live-flash images (if they will exist) it may be good idea... But Robots are also good and almost weightless.

jlpino wrote on the 11 Oct 08 at 12:47
I spend a lot of hours playing Frozen Bubble in my school days and I love this game.

zellfaze wrote on the 1 Nov 08 at 20:38
I love playing robots. I would hate if they removed it.

slsolaris wrote on the 31 Dec 08 at 17:16
robots is great!!!!!!

-99999999999

Frozen-Bubble is ugly, it has bad graphics


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