Happypenguin dying

[dusted]

Maybe a bit late to discover this.. But depressing nonetheless.. While I certainly understand the reasons behind the decision, it still makes me a tad sad.. I fondly remember the days of pouring through the pages and trying out (old) new games ^_^

RIP old friend. http://happypenguin.org/

[charlie]

I've been planning a real Free game alternative for some time.

Soon may be the time to act on it.

[Julius]

Sure it's a piece of Linux gaming history, but http://www.lgdb.org/ has been a better replacement for some time now. Besides: it mirrors our blog in their newsfeed

@Charlie: well given how outdated our last attempt in the wiki has become, I would say it's not really worth the effort.

[charlie]

You mean the libregamewiki or the freegamedev games lists?

I don't like wikis, really. I think any game DB has to empower the game developers to update things quickly/easily. (Which happypenguin kind of did.)

[qubodup]

IMHO the only way to go is:
1. Create a custom list that tracks commits.
2. Allows users to add games and news, moderators have to approve this.
2. Rank games by "alive-ness" (based on commits).

Speaking of which. Anybody up to updating the repo RSS/Atom feeds for http://planetrev.freegamedev.net/ now that cia.vc is down?

[dusted]

I do agree that lgdb is a better site in almost every way I can imagine.. ^_^

[amuzen]

At least to me, Happypenguin always was more of a convenient release announcement aggregator than a game database. You could easily keep on track of what's happening in the Linux gaming scene by just scrolling through the changelog summaries. Actual releases only, summarized in a few bullet points, straight in the front page.

LGDB and friends already do the game database part just fine and cover pretty much everything worthwhile so I'm not sure if the database dump is worth much in practice. Too bad that cloning the things that actually were great about the site isn't a matter of just restoring the database dump and writing a couple of SQL queries.