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YouTuber "The Linux Gamer" wants to create a community game

PostPosted: 29 Jan 2020, 11:00
by charlie
YouTuber "The Linux Gamer" has had enough of the shenanigans in the game industry and has begun to gather people in an effort to create a Linux game to wow the industry.

Post your game suggestions here:

https://gitlab.com/heavyelement/foss-game/issues/1

Show your interest in becoming a contributor here:

https://gitlab.com/heavyelement/foss-game/issues/9

Original YouTube video that started it all:

https://youtu.be/XBLCr7eeSAQ

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This is a c/p of https://www.reddit.com/r/opensourcegame ... ad_enough/

Re: YouTuber "The Linux Gamer" wants to create a community g

PostPosted: 29 Jan 2020, 13:19
by Julius
Surprisingly enthusiastic response from potential contributors. Together with a nicely supported engine like Godot, this could actually go somewhere :)

Re: YouTuber "The Linux Gamer" wants to create a community g

PostPosted: 29 Jan 2020, 22:25
by Julius
https://gitlab.com/heavyelement/foss-game/issues/17

Seems a reasonable goal, but not really my type of game.

Re: YouTuber "The Linux Gamer" wants to create a community g

PostPosted: 30 Jan 2020, 19:40
by rogerdv
Well, a MP game doesnt sounds like a good idea to me, but I have to agree that I would love to see a Kart battle game, with players firing each other missiles and such things, like old DeathTrack (the new one sucks). Godot is the engine to use, of course.

Re: YouTuber "The Linux Gamer" wants to create a community g

PostPosted: 31 Jan 2020, 11:08
by charlie
https://gitlab.com/heavyelement/foss-ga ... _278103933

I mean, gantt charts... this is going to either be a colossal failure or a commercial venture.

Re: YouTuber "The Linux Gamer" wants to create a community g

PostPosted: 31 Jan 2020, 15:12
by dulsi
charlie {l Wrote}:https://gitlab.com/heavyelement/foss-game/issues/5#note_278103933

I mean, gantt charts... this is going to either be a colossal failure or a commercial venture.

I saw that post earlier. I have to say I think the post has a lot of good information in it. I hope this project succeeds but I can't say I expect much. The Linux Gamer has no game development experience and in fact no programming expeerience. He invited all he subscribers to join the effort. He had no game idea at the time. I'm hoping him and raven can pull it all together.

Re: YouTuber "The Linux Gamer" wants to create a community g

PostPosted: 31 Jan 2020, 15:25
by Julius
Yeah, expectations are low, but with the level of interest it might end up in something interesting.

Regarding Gantt charts, yeah corporate bullshit ;) A Kanban board is helpful though.

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PostPosted: 31 Jan 2020, 20:44
by Lyberta
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Re: YouTuber "The Linux Gamer" wants to create a community g

PostPosted: 01 Feb 2020, 04:44
by Wuzzy
Bwahahahaha. But seriously, this project is very very young, there is no way in predicting in how it will go. It's not even clear what kind of game it will be.

But woah, there's a lot of high-profile programmers here.