MOTU Games updated

[John Richard Moser]

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I have updated the MOTU Games wikipage[1] with a little triaging.  I
picked the ones I thought looked nice to triage, mainly ones still in
development and FPS games since that's what kids are into today.

I chose 4 games ready for packaging; 4 in development; and one with
licensing issues.  Also next to each entry is a short-hand note on what
type of game it is.  These are:

FPS      First-Person Shooter
FPS:DM   First-Person Shooter (DeathMatch)
FPS:SP   First-Person Shooter (SinglePlayer)
RTS      Real-Time Strategy
GC       Galactic Conquest (???)
MMO      Massively Multiplayer Online
RPG      Role-Playing Game (Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy style)
TRPG     Tactics Role-Playing Game (Ogre Battle or FFTactics style)
PUZ      Puzzle
AXN      Action
ADV      Adventure
XPL      Exploration (Rogue, NetHack)

As a side note, the 4 development ones consist of two currently
semi-playable games:  FreeOrion and OpenArena.  Also, Crystal Core
should have a preview out on June 24, 2006.

Others should get involved in triaging things in the New Games wiki[2].
 This will help give more organization and structure to future packaging
of games, in case the MOTU team decides to start working more forcefully
there.

On the topic of more concentrated game packaging effort, it may be wise
to consider actually supporting some games in Main, and even devoting a
specific team to this.  Besides it being fun to have something to play,
a real gaming team would give Ubuntu another marketable feature for
another market niche.

This would make a good Edgy+1 goal, because Edgy is going to be loaded
as it is; of course, if some MOTU wants to get started working on it, it
wouldn't be too stressful on main development.  Likewise, if someone new
out there wants to break into Ubuntu development and has an interest
here, this is a great opportunity to get your hands dirty.

It would be an interesting technology demo to produce an Ubuntu Gaming
Edition, which installs without desktop productivity software but rather
with a neat set of games.  A companion CD, Ubuntu LAN Party, would
facilitate the UGE LiveCD; no need to INSTALL Ubuntu on those die-hard
Windows gamers, we can just pass out CDs at the LAN party (do you see
the marketing angle here?)

An UGE would suggest something else interesting.  Normal ubuntu-desktop
would be supplimented nicely with games post-install; but a strict
gaming desktop doesn't need Gnome, and may in fact suggest whittling
down the desktop system and siding with pure XFCE.

To this end, ubuntu-gaming-edition could rely on
ubuntu-desktop-environment, which could be supplied by ubuntu-desktop or
xubuntu-desktop or kubuntu-desktop; or, if someone were so bold,
separated DE packages that supplied bare GNOME/XFCE/KDE.  Of course,
nobody will go quite that far; supplying a desktop environment is
probably smarter, with xubuntu-desktop suggested for its lightweight design.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Teams/Games
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Teams/Games/NEW
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