Hi!
On Friday, January 7, 2022 5:21:10 AM CET Richard Stallman wrote:
> It sounds like game jams have value for education in programming, but
> do they have value for the free software movement,
It depends. It is a fun way to introduce people to programming and if we
introduce people to Free
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It sounds like game jams have value for education in programming, but
do they have va
On January 5, 2022 5:06:26 AM UTC, Michael McMahon
> If most game jam games ended up in standard repositories, there
>would be a negative effect on the entire ecosystem.
Ecosystem is biology.
I am conducting experiments of various kinds every day, and measure outcomes,
make hypothesis and
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If the aim of a Game Jam isn't to produce a game that people use,
what is its purpose
In my response I wrote, "The purpose of a jam is education,
socialization, and friendly competition while gaining functional
experience through creating something in an area that they are
interested in."
From what I gathered, most game jams participants are children,
students, hobbyists, and
> I think it would quickly become unmanageable. I think you would need
to display only those installed and allow a search for more to install.
-- Dennis Payne
I agree that showing a huge list of games would be unmanagable in which
case each user should have it's "library of games" with option
> A libre game jam related to LibrePlanet would probably need to be
before the conference to not distract from the talks. -- Michael McMahon
I like the idea of it being part of the conference to increase the
participation from a new generation.
> Game jam games are not expected to result in
Hi!
These game jam threads are an interesting read, but there are some
misunderstandings about what the purpose of a game jam is in this thread
and the other thread Global Game Jam. This is long, but I hope it is
informative.
If anyone with experience running a game jam wants to host a game
> Packaging a program in distros is crucial for the community because
it leads to various teams that independently work on the program, and
thus have a chance to make sure it is honest. This is why free software
tends not to be malware.
> You may be right that it doesn't particularly help on ot
> So by Libre Game development tournament! are we talking about a
competition to see who can come up with the best game ? -- Paul
Yes, That's how i see my idea.. Where the problems that i can see is how
to make it fair, competetive and how to get sufficient amount of
submissions while promoting t
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Packaging a program in distros is crucial for the community because it
leads to vario
> To let the community make sure the program is safe and not malware,
we need to encourage users to package the program for distros. (See
https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html.)
> It is important to achieve all three goals. The second is often
ignored, but then the free
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For practical success, it is desirable to make the game easy to
install.
To respect
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> We already have a pretty good wiki, not hold by FSF and perhaps not using
> the
Hello!
I was just casually glancing through my email inbox and this caught my
attention!
Recently, I have become convinced that a viable way to start a new
collaborative society is through community efforts in having fun, developing
our own video games together and by extension, creating ric
We can do something to help with that. The first step is to add entries
in directory.fsf.org for them.
Then we could make another page with a list of these free games
and put it on gnu.org/software. It could have 5-10 lines of description
of each game.
WDYT? -- RMS
There is a https://libre
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> In a lot of ways I think the bigger problem for free software games is
> discov
I agree that one game jam won't cause a sudden influx of free software
games.. From my experience I think the effects of it will be seen after
+- 3rd iteration assuming that we are able to provide a sufficient:
1. promotion
2. economical support
3. preparation time (at least 1 month in advance)
f
> This might be fun, but it would be a lot of work and would need
leaders who are familiar with free software game development, plus
leaders who know how to run an event. -- RMS
Agree, i asked relevant developers who have experience with Free
Software Game Development to join the list and prov
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