[mdlug] Suggestions for games for an elderly parent? Starcraft

[Robert Adkins]

BTW, here's a listing of Open Source Games that are "good enough" that
someone felt the need to include them on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabetical_list_of_open_source_games

I'm fairly certain that the list is far from exhaustive.

-Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Wolfger
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:28 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Suggestions for games for an elderly 
> parent? Starcraft
> 
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Garry Stahl 
> <tesral at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > Rather isn't that salable.  Popular?  Everyone here runs 
> it, but who 
> > last needed to buy any software?  Running openSUSE 11 I have never 
> > needed to buy software.  I need something that does 
> something I fire 
> > up Yast and go get it.  That has been the story so far.
> 
> I think you're forgetting the central idea to this thread, 
> which was gaming. You can't fire up Yast and go grab World of 
> Warcraft. I have played a Free MMOG that I can't recall the 
> name of. It was an intriguing idea, and the graphics were 
> good, but... it just wasn't complete. That's the gaping hole 
> in FOSS: great games. It takes more effort to design a 
> cutting edge game than any team of people is willing to put 
> into it for free. The games Linux does have tend to be either 
> lagging behind (i.e. FreeCiv is a clone of a relatively ancient
> game) or simply incomplete. Not to mention that any FOSS MMOG 
> is likely to be missing that first M (Massively) due to 
> marketing issues.
> 
> 
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> Wolfger
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