grep version_updates /dev/urandom
February 21st, 2003 by AlkiniWell, folks. It has been decided that we’re wasting too much time andnews-space on LG announcing new versions of this game and that game tool. So,rather than post them all individually, like we have been in the past, we’regoing to start a digest of sorts and post a group of them once there are a fewin the queue. So, without further ado, here’s our first list in our resurrectedurandom post:
- Attal 0.6.2:changelog,
- FreeCraft2 030210:
- GCompris 2.1:changelog,screenshots,
- KOTH 0.8.0:screenshots,
- Kulic :screenshot,download
- Mojotron 0.9995:changelog,
- Qmamecat 0.44.b45:changelog,screenshots,
- QUB 0.7.1:
- Raptor 1.0.0:screenshot,
- StarShooter3 :screenshot,
- Tower Toppler 0.99.1:changelog,screenshots,
- Trackballs 0.6.0:changelog,screenshot,download
- XMame/XMess 0.65.1:changelog,download
- xu4 0.5:changelog,screenshot,download
February 21st, 2003 at 1:11 pm
Is this like the counterpart to Americas Army ?
February 21st, 2003 at 2:06 pm
I know why they’ve summarised the news, it’s because there are consistent news items about particular products where nobody comments. If people take notice of an item then they comment. I think we all know which ones get the most interest…
February 21st, 2003 at 2:15 pm
Mojo-Tron, a Disney classic remade for the 60s. No baby no.
February 21st, 2003 at 2:46 pm
Atleast have a one-liner description/genre… saves having to click all the links to games we don’t know about just to find out what they are.
February 21st, 2003 at 2:54 pm
Oh, man! This was an OPTIMAL solution!
February 21st, 2003 at 3:16 pm
yeah, like http://www.bluesnews.com and the “Morning Previews”? hehe
February 21st, 2003 at 4:01 pm
http://arkhart.nekeme.net/en <– 0.1.2 is out and they didnt tell anyone :)
February 21st, 2003 at 8:16 pm
Why stop in summarizing the news as this?
It sounds like a sight re-design needs to commence.
Why comment in only one area when you can offer the same as before, yet more compactly proposed? For example, this forum *could* look like the following…
(*LATEST NEWS!) Attal 0.6.2: (*active/*stale) discussion, changelog, screenshots, download
FreeCraft2 030210: (active/stale) discussion, changelog, screenshots, download
GCompris 2.1: (active/stale) discussion, changelog, screenshots, download
KOTH 0.8.0: (active/stale) discussion, screenshots, download
Kulic : (active/stale) discussion, screenshot, download
Mojotron 0.9995: (active/stale) discussion, changelog, download
Qmamecat 0.44.b45: (active/stale) discussion, changelog, screenshots, download
QUB 0.7.1: (active/stale) discussion, changelog, screenshots, download
Raptor 1.0.0: (active/stale) discussion, screenshot, download
StarShooter3: (active/stale) discussion, screenshot, download
Tower Toppler 0.99.1: (active/stale) discussion, changelog, screenshots, download
Trackballs 0.6.0: (active/stale) discussion, changelog, screenshot, download
XMame/XMess 0.65.1: (active/stale) discussion, changelog, download
xu4 0.5: (active/stale) discussion, changelog, screenshot, download
legend: *=latest news ~36 hours, active/stale ~discussion forums activity
February 22nd, 2003 at 12:19 am
any chance of a one line summary of each game after the update info?
February 22nd, 2003 at 9:54 am
Thank you thank you thank you
By not pushing articles with real discussion into the archive so quickly and combining the low-discussion announcements, this will really help linuxgames become a better site and differentiate itself from happypenguin.
February 22nd, 2003 at 11:28 am
Though I agree that one-line-summary-per-game would improve things.
February 23rd, 2003 at 4:17 am
into one web page.
That way the ‘happypenguin’ (similar to freshmeat) side of Linuxgames and Happypenguin can announce the games and have the Linux game DB. Then the Linuxgames part can have the forums and the news.
I guess then you have control conflicts, but these two web pages have a lot of overlap and I bet a lot of the people that look at each page look at both pages. It would also be a way to reduce the stagnation of each site.
Something to think about anyway — if both sides haven’t already thought about it.
Also, if you did combine it all, you could have a Linux Game Developer section where you have news about development such as new libraries and under the forums you could have the development forums.
Maybe you could also have a Super PET game section?
February 24th, 2003 at 2:51 am
Speaking of latest game development…I noticed that there wasn’t a news update at BioWare on the development of NeverWinter Nights for Linux…they usually have been good at keeping us informed every week (every Friday). I wonder if this is a sign that they are preparing for some big news update (hopefully a beta or even better a full release) or if it just means their web maintainer is slacking off as well….