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(Literal) World Domination A talk about FOSS games Disclaimer My Own, All my own, Nothing but my own For those reading at home: This and opinions expressed here are my own opinion and not that of my employer, the OSDC conference or anyone

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(Literal) World Domination

A talk about FOSS games

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Disclaimer

My Own, All my own, Nothing but my own

For those reading at home: This and opinions expressed here are my own opinion and not that of my employer, the OSDC conference

  • r anyone else.
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No orbital death

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Question:

Why should you care?

“I don't play computer games” “It's only entertainment”

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$37.5 billion

reasons

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Please sir, may I play my game?

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Linux on the desktop?

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Question:

Is it all doom and gloom?

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First games where FOSS

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Commercial games use FOSS

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2,250k - WoW: Burning Crusade 914k - World of Warcraft

verse

4,981k – StepMania 4,897k - Frets on Fire

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Finding FOSS Games

Linux Game Tome

http://www.happypenguin.org/

Freshmeat – Games

http://freshmeat.net/browse/80/

Freegamer Blog

http://freegamer.blogspot.com/

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ope

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Question:

How do I make a FOSS game?

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Warning:

Anecdotal Evidence

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Thousand Parsec

http://www.thousandparsec.net/

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Release Early

(but not too early)

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Release Often

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0.2.0 0.2.1 0.3.0 GsoC 2007 GsoC 2008

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R R R R R R R R

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Make it easy to Install

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When a person is looking for normal software, they have an issue to solve. When looking for computer games, they are looking to be entertained.

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Promote Your Project

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But:

I Don't Have Time!

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1 week

Pyweek

http://www.pyweek.org/

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1 week

Pyweek

http://www.pyweek.org/

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1 week

Pyweek

http://www.pyweek.org/

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1 week

Pyweek

http://www.pyweek.org/

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48 hours

Ludum Dare

http://www.imitationpickles.org/ludum

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24 hours

PyDay

http://groups.google.com/group/pyday