Re: Orphaned games
Ana Guerrero wrote:
Hi,
There are currently 16 orphaned games, see list below. Maybe somebody would
be interested in adopt any of them inside the games team. In the case of the
ITAed packages, maybe invite the maintainer to join the team.
And there are three packages that seems good candidates for removal.
Comments?
Ana
Just an opinion on the basis of having a 12 year old son. I think it is
fair to consider the playability and up-to-dateness of some of these ideas.
Package: 3dchess
Description: 3D chess for X11
3 dimensional Chess game for X11R6. There are three boards, stacked
vertically; 96 pieces of which most are the traditional chess pieces with
just a couple of additions; 26 possible directions in which to move. The
AI isn't wonderful, but provides a challenging enough game to all but the
most highly skilled players.
#363498 ITAed since May 2007
It's not really very 3D is it? A package with this name should be
providing a 'proper' 3D chess experience.
I'm not going to comment on each package in turn, suffice it to say we
need to know whether anyone actually ever plays these games and they
really ought to be tested for 'lameness'. Debian has an embarrassment of
riches in the Arcade games section, we owe it to the decent games to
drop the lamer arcade games.
Package: gnome-breakout
Description: Clone of the classic game Breakout, written for GNOME
A clone of the classic game "Breakout". Control a paddle at the
bottom of the playfield and bounce a ball against bricks at the
top to destroy them.
#428485 Orphaned since Jun 2007, It is a gnome1 package, candidate for removal?
Why would anyone want to play anything other than lbreakout?
Package: lxdoom
Description: Unix port of boom, an enhanced version of DOOM
Doom is a 3d shoot'em'up game, written by id Software, first released in
1993.
.
LxDoom is a version of Doom, designed to run on Unix either under XFree86 or
using SVGALib.
.
LxDoom is based on Boom, a freely available port of Doom for DOS, written by
TeamTNT (http://www.teamtnt.com/).
.
This package includes only the network game server and the required game
wad file (boomlump.wad). To actually play lxdoom, you require lxdoom-x11
or lxdoom-svga, depending on whether you're going to play lxdoom on the
console or X. Packages which may also enhance your gameplay are
lxdoom-sndserv and lxmusserv, which are the sound server and music server
packages, respectively.
#434100 Orphaned since Jul 2007.
Isn't this already for the chop in favour of prboom?
I think it might be worth allowing a stay of execution on games that
have only been orphaned or ita'd since this spring as these are the kind
of projects that get worked on when the weather gets cooler in the
autumn. ;) Surely popcon results are relevant, if a game is being played
regularly, it probably ain't broke.
cheers,
tim
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