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Presenting the LGP game development company |
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17 Mar 03 19:56
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Michael Simms announced the eight winners of LGP's game development company intiative this evening. It's quite an impressive list:
- Steve Baker: Friend and mentor to open source game developers everywhere, he brought us Tux: A Quest For Herring back in the day, before 3D games for Linux were commonplace. I hear he really likes tetris clones, too.
- Bruno Costa
- Bob Ham: appears to be the guy with the can of audio whoop-ass.
- Bill Kendrick:
If you haven't heard of the prolific Mr. Kendrick, you're not a real Linux gamer.
- Sean Middleditch: Middleditch is a really cool surname.
- Andrew Nelson: The quiet, mysterious one. Zero web presence. No open source credits. Describes himself as a jack-of-all-trades. Who is this International Man of Mystery?
- Jacek Poplawski: A #gametome regular, and a darn good programmer despite that.
- Matt Wilson: I had a roommate named Matt Wilson once....
The eight will play "getting to know you" on a private mailing list this week, then meet in IRC next weekend to define goals for the project, discuss game ideas, choose a company name (a better one than "LGP game development company" please), and get other intial tasks out of the way.
Happypenguin.org will report on interesting stuff as it happens. Watch this space.
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Tiny request
posted by
Anonymous
@ 81.102.80.5
on Mar 19 2003 10:20 AM
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| All I ask is please, please not *another* FPS. We have enough of those already. |
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Re: Tiny request
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Anonymous
@ 217.61.186.210
on Mar 19 2003 11:23 AM
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| No, it won't be an FPS. They said they would try to create something new, not seen likely before. |
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Re: Tiny request
posted by
Anonymous
@ 67.68.96.99
on Mar 19 2003 11:30 AM
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Please, please, please, make an FPS!
Some new kind of FPS at least, how about, quake meets nethack?
PS. Yes, I love FPSes. |
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Re: Tiny request
posted by
Anonymous
@ 138.194.246.229
on Mar 19 2003 7:54 PM
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| Both First and Third person shooters are old hat.
Its time to Innovate!
The Second Person Shooter Genre has been undervalued and underrepresented in todays games market, and at the same time, the industry is showing signs of stagnation and collapsing under its own weight. Coincidence? I think not!
Its time to take a stand, and show the foolish world the power and magesty of linux and the distributed development model, what better way that the worlds first and best Second Person shooter?
And don't forget the ninja's |
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Please.....
posted by
asfand
@ 195.92.67.71
on Mar 19 2003 12:19 AM
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| Please make a game with robots. I'm tired of Reality creeping into games, reminding me of this life.
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Re: Please.....
posted by
Anonymous
@ 138.194.246.229
on Mar 19 2003 7:50 PM
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| Ninjas!
Ninja's are the magic X ingredient that will make this game a billion seller, and convert all the windows people to linux and the magic of the OSS movement.
Ignore ninja's at your peril!
Robotic Ninja's are allowable. |
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