Julius {l Wrote}:Developing android apps is easy and the tools are free, but you still need a regular PC for it.
But smcameron is right, there still are plenty of young (wannabe) game developers, they just end up less often at the FOSS corner of the community.
I hope you both are right and there are lots of young game developers out there.
If that's true there should be an advertiizing campaign or so. I mean, several organisations advertize for free software in general and there is the campaign "Public money public code". So there could be something similar for libre games.
But what would attract developers to the decision to make their game open source/libre?
- Maybe the engines can be turned from a disadvantage into an advantage. Like an engine which is GPL or AGPL, so game makers have to release their game open source?
- Good showcase games which show that open source is cool?
- Code snippet exchange webportal? Maybe with a simple and permissive license?
- Maybe an adventure which story is about software freedom and unfreedom?
Those are just some thoughts...
Greetings
Peter