Fedora Games SIG April 2012

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0 A.D. another game to consider packaging
by Bruno Wolff III 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

For anyone looking for something to do, 0 A.D. seems to be something worth packaging. It is similar to Age of Empires (which also makes it a bit like Empire Earth, but it is a lot closer to Age of Empires). It is still alpha, but getting it into Fedora might get them some more testing and possibly contributors. With one very small fix to get it to build with gcc 4.7 (which I reported to upstream 0 A.D., though it's really an nvtt issue), I was able to build it. The game includes a few bundled libraries we don't have in Fedora (at least nvtt and spidermonkey) and uses a more recent version of enet than we have. Some of these may only be needed to develop for the game and not to actually play it. I haven't looked to carefully at this. I'll probably do some chipping away at some of the prerequisites, but have other games to work on, so it won't happen very quickly.

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Fedora Games
by Marc Joel Jamero 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi! I'm currently downloading the 3.54GB installer of Fedora. I'm a game developer and used to be doing frameworks/games using DirectX9. Since, I do have knowledge making games using OpenGL and doesn't want to spend a lot of money on buying paid OS, I chose Fedora(after lots of research) to be my development platform. It would be so kind of you to send me an offline installer and a beginner's guide; I would appreciate it very much. I want to master linux for game development. I'm currently doing a prototype of the strategy game we designed(together with 2 artists). Bottom-line, I want to master Fedora, install my needs(Drivers, IDE, OpenGL library, etc), develop the game and release Linux and Windows versions. If some of my words/phrases are somewhat offending or too demanding, I apologize for I'm not that good in English. Respectfully, -- *Marc Joel Jamero* Game Developer mail(a)marcjoeljamero.com http://www.marcjoeljamero.com

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Arx Libertalis
by Jason L Tibbitts III 21 Apr '12

21 Apr '12

I see Arx Libertalis made a stable release (1.0). Given the availability of the demo, I think packaging this is within (though as usual for this kind of thing, on the edge) of what's acceptable for Fedora. Anyone interested in working on this? One "problem" is that upstream provides Fedora packages, built on the opensuse build system. That in itself is fine, but the packaging split is a bit weird to me, with a metapackage and some other stuff. Of course those packages don't support autodownloader and don't include some upsteam-provided scripts to operate on the actual game data, so there is some possibility for added value. You can see the upstream packages at https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries?package=arx-libertatis&project=… I believe all dependencies are already in place, except for one thing (innoextract) required to unpack the GOG release of the commercial game in the case that someone doesn't want to install wine to run the installer. Everything needed for the code to build and run is already in Fedora. - J<

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mari0
by Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

So, Anyone successfully ran this game? ( http://stabyourself.net/mari0/ ) I compiled LOVE framework but still isn't running. If the answer is positive, then how actually did u do it? Thanks :) -- Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor Core Developer Intern, Diaspora <http://joindiaspora.com> Twitter - @Nirjhor <http://twitter.com/nirjhor>

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Fedora Games SIG April 2012