<div>On 12/6/06, Eero Tamminen <<a href="mailto:oak@helsinkinet.fi">oak@helsinkinet.fi</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, On Wednesday 06 December 2006 23:12, <a href="mailto:roberto.blatt@gmail.com">roberto.blatt@gmail.com</a> wrote: > I do not understand. I think that diversion is important and the > sophisticated games serve to this. Game diversity is different from having sophisticated games. Games can differ a lot even if they are easily approachable. They can be from different genres (puzzle, shooter, platform, multiplayer, sport/race, adventure, board, educational, fps, rpg, strategy etc). Usually sophisticated (complex game play, long story lines, lots to learn, long playtime) games take much more diskspace because they have a lot more content (graphics, music etc). For the stuff that is included into install CD, I would recommend having something nice but simple. E.g. years ago one (non-Linux) Asteroids variant had very good re-playability for me. I didn't need/want to play them for a long time in the same sitting, but I played it for a couple of years at least once a month. Nethack is somewhat similar, but its play sessions are usually longer and probably it's not aproachable enough. I would recommed including something that is: - Easy to play (learn) - Looks & sounds nice (enough) - Doesn't require one to play for a long time. I.e. average play time is fairly short - Has very good playability / replay value - Doesn't take much disk space Solitaire, Tetris, Minesweeper are all such games, but hopefully we have (also) some other games which are not so (boringly) familiar to everybody.</blockquote><div> Such as Liquid War, which I really think should be included by default, as it's highly original and still fits the requirements. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> - Eero > 2006/12/6, Eero Tamminen <<a href="mailto:oak@helsinkinet.fi"> oak@helsinkinet.fi</a>>: > > > I think that we must have more sophisticated games. > > > > IMHO games requiring hours of continuous play belong to distros aimed > > at games/gamers[1] and something like Xubuntu should have games that > > you can play when you have a few minutes free time; tetris, simple > > puzzle games, straightforward shooters, classic / retro[2] games etc. > > > > [1] Hm. Maybe somebody should start Gubuntu (Ubuntu for gamers)? :-) > > [2] Most of the early games were something which gameplay you could > > grasp in a minute and play them right away. They concentrated on > > gameplay unlike modern games (as the graphics and sound possibilities > > were pretty limited back then). -- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div> -- Vincent