* Dennis Payne <du...@identicalsoftware.com> [2022-01-08 17:23]: > On Fri, 2022-01-07 at 10:53 +0100, Ismael Luceno wrote: > > People who value free software would publish their games as free > > software... Why don't we have so many games then? > > We do have a lot of games. Obviously not as many as commercial games. > They tend to steer towards procedural or acade games rather than > complex story games. High quality graphics are less common but not > unseen. > > https://trilarion.github.io/opensourcegames/statistics/index.html > Lists 519 linux games at the moment. Some may not be completely free > but a good chunk of them probably are. It has a backlog of games to add > as well.
It is unclear what "open source" means, there are many "custom licenses" and "other licenses". > Most people developing games would love to make a living as game > developers. However I disagree that most people developing games are > motivated by it. We are usually motivated by a game we want to make. We > might think it could make money but usually it is the desire for the > game first. > > People join National Novel Writing Month for the same reason. They have > an idea for a novel and want to write it. Some will pursue publishing > it. Some will self publish perhaps even knowing it won't be a giant > seller. Some will just give it away. Great, keep it going. Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
