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["John Pyper" <jpyper@xxxxxxxxx>]

My vote is for Open Liero. It's a very close to original Worms clone.

John Pyper
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On 9/7/08, brent timothy saner <brent.saner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> *Okay. WE NEED SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR GAMES!
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> Here are the guidelines:
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> 1. they MUST be FaiB at LEAST, but free/open-source is even better. i am
> unwilling to bend on this. please see the footnote for reasons why [2].
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> 2. we're looking for a wide sample- not only FPS (openarena, warsow, etc.),
> but strategy (boswars, globulation, etc.), arcade-style (armagetron, etc.)
> and many others! you can can find a list of GNU/Linux-native games at
> http://happypenguin.org/
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> oh. that reminds me!
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> 3. a. PLEASE please please try to keep it GNU/Linux-native! I /know/ WINE
> can run many games flawlessly, but it can be a very tricky and scary thing
> for users if they've never used WINE before.
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> b. but! if a game isn't in the repositories (many of the good ones aren't!),
> that's okay. GDebi can install deb files relatively non-scarily for young
> users, and for everything else it's usually just unzip, make executable, and
> play (we will have information on that available if you're confused).
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> with that said, i'd love to hear some ideas for games so we can make a poll
> and gaming schedule!
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> [1] FaiB == Free as in Beer, meaning the data may be copyrighted, but the
> copyright holder makes it available under a Freeware, Shareware, or similar
> license. In other words, you don't need to pirate it in order to use it
> without shelling out $$$ for it.
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> [2] a. we don't want to alienate anyone who wants to support free software
> (in the f/oss sense and also the more vague free-as-in-beer sense).
> club-ubuntu was started to be as inclusive as we can.
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> b. there are many very entertaining games that are F/OSS (or FaiB). true,
> they may not be as "polished" as many commercial/proprietary games, but
> largely what they lack in Shiny they make up for in originality and concept,
> and you never stop to notice the number of polygons on a rocket when you've
> got the flag and you're just trying to dodge the thing. :)
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> c. i realize commercial software or nonfree software is unavoidable at
> times. however, i think we should do our very best to not support commercial
> software if given the chance, especially via pirating [2d]  because it
> brings less attention to the OSS projects, and therefore the OSS projects
> suffer. it was because of the aggressiveness of the GPL (to keep software
> and derivatives free) that GNU/Linux took much more userbase than BSD (which
> has a MUCH more relaxed and "permissive" license).
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> d. i believe it only affects the whole thing disadvantageously. because the
> loss of profits (even if they're unrealistic desires.. grrr, greedy software
> corps), they hike the prices up even MORE and this ends up hurting those
> that wish to keep honesty and integrity when purchasing software that is
> mission-critical (photoshop, case in point), or cannot risk going to jail
> because they will be audited for piracy.
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> *--
> brent saner.
> gpg info at http://www.notebookarmy.org/gpg.txt
> (this is a shorter sig.)
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