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Arc Riley wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Pedro Sosa <sosavpm@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:sosavpm@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hello to everyone
>     I was even thinking that as a FPS engine we should use the Quake
>     engine, OGRE for the RPGs maybe, there is anotherone called the
>     Genesis3D don't know much about it
>
>
> Who is this "we"?
>
> The Ubuntu Gaming Team is not involved with the development of games, 
> nor is there one solution for the free software gaming community in 
> any genre of game.
>
> I strongly feel that everyone on this list needs to become much more 
> aware of the politics surrounding these issues.  I know it was not 
> intended, but a few people in the Debian Games Team (which packages 
> games for Ubuntu) have already become miffed at some of the 
> initiatives taken by members of this team in assigning bugs and 
> proposing fixing the games packaging situation (which they know little 
> about).
>
> Similarly proposing specific library projects (ie, toolkit, game 
> engine, etc) will only serve to alienate the alternative projects.  In 
> the above example, if I were to read the above email out of context I 
> would be fairly irked by it as the maintainer of another game engine, 
> as would developers and maintainers of many other game engines.
>
> We, the Ubuntu Gaming Team, need to focus on promoting Ubuntu as a 
> gaming platform and less about trying to decide what software or 
> methods should be used to build games or what versions of which games 
> are packaged.  There are other groups, many other groups, you can join 
> if those are your interests.
>
> It's seriously confusing everyone to see this sort of discussion 
> taking place here.
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I agree with you Arc. This project is about getting the word out there 
that Ubuntu (Linux in general, for that matter) is a viable OS to use 
for gaming. I don't agree completely that we should push more for FOSS 
gaming, but that is a whole other discussion and not really what the 
scope of this discussion is about.

Ryan Gordon said it best. (Paraphrasing) "We shouldn't push Linux as the 
alternative. We should push EVERYTHING as an alternative." In the 
context of this discussion, we shouldn't single out one or two game 
engines. We should be pushing EVERY game engine. We should be pushing 
for the concept of cross-platform game development. To give people a 
choice for what OS they want on their computer. To make the excuse of, 
"I use Windows because I'm a gamer," totally irrelevant.