LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2021-12-30 Thread Jacob Hrbek
There are too many overhyped proprietary games that are either unplayable or are just a rewrite of something that already exists and not enough libre games that are worth the time playing where from my talks with the relevant game developers seems to be mainly due to the economy of developing more

Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2021-12-30 Thread Jacob Hrbek
> 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

Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2021-12-30 Thread Jacob Hrbek
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

Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2021-12-30 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > In a lot of ways I think the bigger problem for free software games is > discov

Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2021-12-30 Thread Jacob Hrbek
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

Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2021-12-30 Thread Yasuaki Kudo
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

Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2021-12-30 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > We already have a pretty good wiki, not hold by FSF and perhaps not using > the

Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!

2021-12-30 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] For practical success, it is desirable to make the game easy to install. To respect