[SFD-discuss] wesnoth tournament

Judy Okite judyokite at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 21:14:30 UTC 2007


Phew! And thnx. Kind Regards,

On 9/25/07, Noven Purnell-Webb <noven at magedata.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:49:59 Judy Okite wrote:
> > Hi Novene, when U talk about giving a windows copy,do U give them with
> > the licence? Why do that on a SFD event? Kind Regards,
> >
>
> I meant a windows copy of Battle for Wesnoth. It is on the Open CD. A part of
> me definitely *wanted* to hold back and insist they run Linux to play the
> game, but that would have been against the spirit of the day and would have
> backfired. I'd rather people use FOSS under windoze than not use it at all.
>
> BTW Paul, thanks for the tip on Thousand Parsec. I am going to be playing *so*
> many games this weekend.....
>
> - Noven
>
>> On 9/24/07, Paul Schulz <pschulz01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all.. (another option)
> > >
> > >On 9/25/07, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat at wired.net.nz> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:07 +0930, Noven Purnell-Webb wrote:
> > > > > One of the biggest reasons I hear from people against switching to
> > > > > Linux is the lack of games, so we had a networked Battle for Wesnoth
> > > > > tournament - which the gamers *loved*. The impact was somewhat
> > > > > diminished when I could give them a windows copy to take home, but
> > > > > meh, it's still FOSS.
> > > >
> > > > When people talk about 'games' on Linux, I find they usually mean
> > > > FPS-games. Like temulous, nexuiz, enemy territory.
> > > >
> > > > There are also a few racing games. VDrift looks like it would be pretty
> > > > good with a racing wheel. I haven't managed to play at all well with
> > > > just the keyboard.
> > > >
> > > > I also recommend Wesnoth. And lincity-ng is pretty good. The kids
> > > > really love Supertux, Pingus, planetpenguin racer, Frets On Fire. And
> > > > when I get a dance mat I'm fairly sure they'll go mad about Stepmania.
> > >
> > >Thousand Parsec - http://www.thousandparsec.net
> > > Turn based space conquest game.
> > >
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