SIGs/Games

= Contributing roles in the Fedora Games SIG =

= Mission =

Goal: to make Fedora the best Free software and open source gaming platform there is for both developers and users.

We aim to accomplish this goal through a variety of activities:


 * Creating high quality packages of games, gaming-related libraries, and game development tools
 * Documenting the available games, including wiki documentation and listing in comps.xml
 * Providing a forum where users and developers can discuss issues related to current games, requests for new games to be packaged, and game packaging issues (but not game playing help, so don't bother asking how to kill the wumpus!)
 * Seeking publicity for games in Fedora
 * Actively review each other's game packages to shorten the time it takes to get games approved and imported into Fedora Package Collection
 * Design additional guidelines on top of the Fedora Packaging guidelines that are specific to games
 * Help each other fix bugs that have been filed against game packages
 * Alerting each other about orphaned and soon-to-be orphaned games so that we can prevent their removal

= Gaming News sites =


 * Free Gamer
 * Games4Linux
 * Games for Linux
 * Liberated Games
 * Libregamewiki
 * linuX-gamers.net
 * Linux Game Database
 * Linux Game Tome
 * Linux Gamer Guide
 * Linux games at MobyGames
 * Linux games at TIGdb
 * SourceForge.net-hosted games, sorted by last file release date
 * Spielen-unter-Linux.de (German with Wiki, Forum and News)
 * HOLARSE (German)
 * Ubuntu Games (Brazilian Portuguese)

= Game List References =


 * Allegro games Instructions: genre -> listing -> show options -> "Source" to "yes" -> Apply
 * Debian games
 * First-person shooters with different levels of Freeness
 * Five addictive open source games, more in comments
 * Free Gamer games list
 * Liberated Games, formerly commercial titles that are now freeware or open source
 * Libregamewiki game list
 * Linux Gamers' Game List
 * List of games at Linux Gamer Guide
 * List of open source games at Wikipedia
 * Live DVD games list
 * SourceForge.net-hosted games
 * Top 21 Games of 2007, more in comments

= Documentation =

Documentation for installation and configuration including screenshots for games in Fedora is available at Games.

= Process =

The Games SIG has three channels for communication. First, there is the [mailto:games@lists.fedoraproject.org games@lists.fedoraproject.org] mailing list.

Second, there is this wiki page. Want to suggest a game? Just add it to the Games of Interest list. Working on packaging a game, or need a review for your game-related package? Just add it to the Games Being Packaged list. Interested in joining the SIG? Just add your WikiName to the list.

Third, we have an IRC channel, #fedora-games, on irc.freenode.net.

New packaging guidelines are created on an as-needed basis. As issues arise with game packages they are discussed. If the issue affects other games then we discuss the issue in the bugzilla ticket where the issue was first found, which is often the review request for a new game. Once the issue has been discussed and a solution agreed upon, the package review completes. This serves as the first test for the new guideline. If the guideline is acceptable, that is, no problems are found after the package has been pushed to the repo, then we add the guideline to the wiki. Existing packages are not modified to conform to newer guidelines until they are updated/patched for other reasons (new version available, bug fixing). See the bugzilla ticket for shippy for an example of this process.

The guidelines that we develop are in addition to, not a replacement for, the standard Fedora Packaging guidelines. Any guidelines that we feel should become standard Fedora Packaging policy will of course be brought up on the Fedora packaging mailing list. The Games SIG mailing list can be used to propose and discuss new packaging guidelines.

= Games Packaging Guidelines =


 * SIGs/Games/Packaging

= WishList =


 * SIGs/Games/WishList

= Fedora Games Spin (Live CD/DVD) Project =

GamesLive

= Available Games =

There are pointers to descriptions of some individual games on the Games- list. This list and the individual descriptions is intended for end users who want to get more information on what games are available for Fedora and to help them get started playing the individual games. This is an attempt to help squash the misconception that there are no real games for Linux. Feel free to add a description of your favorite game that is already available in Fedora. Try to avoid including information that is already included in the spec file, with the exception of the %description or %summary and %url. Do include any post-install instructions, how to play information, client and server configuration details (or pointers to manpages), and screenshots.

= Game Support Tools of Interest =


 * GtkRadiant - Game level editor for Doom and Quake
 * xqf - Game Server browser supporting nexuiz and netpanzer among alot other and also commercial games and been packaged on newrpms before (feel free to takeover parts of the specs).
 * Grapple - Grapple is designed to be a simple network layer, allowing the addition of multiplayer features to a game for as little as a dozen lines of code.

= Games Being Packaged =

None currently.

= Orphaned Packages Needing Maintainers =

None currently.

= Packagers/Reviewers/People interested =


 * JasonTibbitts
 * MichaelThomas
 * JohnMahowald
 * MichelSalim
 * HansdeGoede
 * ChristopherStone
 * ErickGoes
 * HugoCisneiros
 * RudolfKastl
 * RahulSundaram
 * PeterGordon
 * MichałBentkowski
 * StevenPritchard
 * PeterLemenkov
 * AurelienBompard
 * RafałPsota
 * JonCiesla
 * AdamGoode
 * AndreaMusuruane
 * NigelJones
 * XavierLamien
 * PabloMartin-Gomez
 * LucianLanga
 * Stefan Posdzich
 * Simon Wesp
 * Alexey Torkhov
 * Josh Steffen
 * Felix Kaechele
 * Bruno Wolff
 * Cody Smith
 * Guido Grazioli
 * Wei Zhang
 * James Butler
 * Jason Clark

= General Issues =


 * We need more interested packagers.
 * non-commercial clauses in game licenses render them invalid for inclusion into Fedora Package Collection. Such games are not Free and open source software and violates Clause 6 of the OSI definition .  An example can be found in Moria and its derivatives such as angband:

This software may be copied and distributed for educational, research, and not for profit purposes provided that this copyright and statement are included in all such copies. Other copyrights may also apply.

= List of games we will NOT package =

= Other links =
 * Packaging/Guidelines

This SIG was created on Feb. 7, 2006 by JasonTibbitts, and has been growing ever since. Nostalgia:
 * http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-February/msg00478.html
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Games?action=recall&rev=1

= References =