On 07/19/2016 09:54 PM, Ben Rosser wrote:
Hi games@,
Glad to see interest in reviving the Games SIG! I put my name on the
interested packagers list and signed up for this mailing list some time
ago, but I never really got around to doing that much.
I introduced myself briefly on IRC, but here's a more detailed introduction:
I am, or rather soon will be, a first-year graduate student at the
University of Pennsylvania. I've also been using and playing games on
Fedora since F13, back before Steam for Linux was a thing, so I got into
several open-source games (primarily, Battle for Wesnoth). I've been a
packager for about a year and a half now, and would love to help
maintain or review games related packages.
One thing I am somewhat interested in, with regard to gaming in Fedora,
is making the installation of open-source mods for games easier,
especially for games that don't have their own tools to do this sort of
thing. Wesnoth, for example, has a centralized repository for addon
content and also ships with an in-game tool for installing such content.
But then there are games like Minetest with lots of mods that do not
have a centralized registry or any way to install them other than
downloading sources from github.
I am not sure if the solution is drafting packaging guidelines for game
mods, although maybe it would be something worth looking into-- at least
for specific games? But I think it'd be nice to somehow promote the
modding of FOSS games.
Ben Rosser
Hey Ben! We talked briefly in IRC, but thought I would also give a reply
here. :)
Thanks for introducing yourself here. It will be helpful with your
background in packaging to contribute towards improving the gaming
experience in Fedora. I like your thoughts on making a centralized
method of implementing game mods... while I think that would definitely
require a case-by-case implementation for each game, there is probably a
smarter or more effective way we can make mods available to gamers. I
think trying to create some kind of technical guidelines would be
helpful in trying to move towards that, and then packaging a few popular
mods in that way as examples for more could be useful. This should
definitely be a point worth bringing in. :)
See you in-channel!
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com