Hi to all Debian Mentors out there!
I'm a long time Debian user and now I'm wanting to start helping the Debian team, firstly with some packaging works on a free software project of mine: GNOME War Pad (or GWP for short).
GWP[0] is a 'VGA Planets' 3.x client that's intended to allow free software users to play this excellent strategy game without using the typical DOS/Win clients.
'VGA Planets'[1] is a strategy, space conquest, play-by-email game that has been played for a long time now (since FidoNet!!), it allows up to 11 players in a single game, and it's so simple and complex at the same time, that's very addictive. Many people around the world play this game subscribing themselves to several online game hosting sites. The only drawback with 'VGA Planets' is that is shareware, unregistered copies have some limitations (technology levels limits for example...), but it can be used to play anyways. Registration is not expensive though.
Since the original (official) VGA Planets client is *SO BAD*, many people have written several alternative clients, like VPA[2] or PCC[3], most of them for DOS, so that's why I started this project around year 2002, and had been improving it steadily ever since.
Today, GWP is an almost complete 'VGA Planets' viewer, with a python-based plugin infraestructure (the rest is programmed in C), and in the near future, works will be started to make GWP a complete client, capable of sending the turns with all the actions from the player. It's also already translated in 5 languages (English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese).
GWP's license is the GPL, and I'm already packaging it for Debian, so I need someone with patience to be my sponsor, check my .deb[4] package and tell me what's missing or wrong so we can upload this software to Debian's repository.
Thanks in advance :-)
References: ---------- [0] http://gwp.lunix.com.ar [1] http://www.vgaplanets.com [2] http://vpa.sourceforge.net [3] http://phost.de/~stefan/pcc.html [4] http://gwp.lunix.com.ar/releases/packages/gwp_0.3.6-1_i386.deb
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