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Welcome to the MOTU Games team. We are always looking for new members. Come to #ubuntu-motu on freenode if you want to join or help out.

Members

• CoreyBurger (Burgundavia)

• ReinhardTartler (siretart)

• TrentLloyd (Lathiat)

• StefanPotyra (sistpoty)

• LukasFittl (lfittl)

How to help / Ongoing Tasks

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/NoDesktopFile]
• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/NEW] lists games currently not in ubuntu

• [http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php] - We should check this list to see what we can ship and already ship.

• Create a overview page about games already in ubuntu, similar to [http://ubuntuusers.de/wiki/Spiele_Ubuntu] (German, perhaps anyone could translate that?)

Games

Games are listed with category next to them, as shown below.

• FPS First-Person Shooter

  • FPS: DM First-Person Shooter (DeathMatch)

  • FPS: SP First-Person Shooter (SinglePlayer)

• RTS Real-Time Strategy

• TBS Turn-Based Strategy

• GC Galactic Conquest (???)

• MMO Massively Multiplayer Online

• RPG Role-Playing Game (Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy style)

• TRPG Tactics Role-Playing Game (Ogre Battle or FFTactics style)

• PUZ Puzzle

• AXN Action

• ADV Adventure

• XPL Exploration (Rogue, NetHack)

Packaged

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/ArmagetronAdvanced] (AXN) Listed as Armagetron with the AAD homepage in the package!

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/BattleForWesnoth] (TBS)
• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/BeneathASteelSky] (PUZ/XPL)
• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/FrozenBubble] (PUZ)
• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/Globulation2] (RTS)
• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/GLtron] (AXN)
• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/Nexuiz] (FPS: DM)

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/Quake2] (FPS) No free content; Old, has known security holes!

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/Stratagus] (RTS)

Ready for Packaging

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/Glest] (RTS)
• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/OpenQuartz] (FPS: DM)

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/Quake3] (FPS) Engine

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/SecretMaryoChronicles] (AXN)
• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/Tremulous] (RTS/FPS mix)

Pending / In Development

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/CrystalCore] (FPS) Tech Preview scheduled Jul 24 2006

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/FreeOrion] (Galactic Conquest) Playable

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/OpenArena] (FPS: DM) Playable

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/Zymotic] (FPS: SP)

Licensing Issues

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/AlephOne] (FPS) No free content

• [:MOTU/Teams/Games/DigitalPaintball2] (FPS) Content license unknown

Useful Links

• The Linux Gamers Guide started a lovely wiki: http://linux.strangegamer.com/

• Debian has recently formed a games team on alioth: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-games/

Notes

• Users like games. It may be a considerably good idea to try setting up a real games team and moving some games into Main. -- JohnMoser

• Installing Armagetron, Quake 2, GLtron, Frozen Bubble, and Battle for Wesnoth shows a few packages not in main. These packages have to be considered when considering games even in Universe, as if they break MOTU has to fix them. These are mostly libsdl1.2; perhaps SDL should be considered for Main, because it's a cross-platform graphics, sound, and network library, like Microsoft DirectX but not Windows only. Packages are as follows:
  • libsdl-console
  • libsdl-gfx1.2-4
  • libsdl-net1.2
  • libsdl-perl
  • libsdl-sound1.2
  • libsvga

CategoryGames ["CategoryMOTU"]