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LGP Announces Game Development Project
michaelsimms writes "Linux Game Publishing is excited
to announce our newest project to increase the appeal of Linux gaming. We are sponsoring the development of a from-scratch Linux title! We are looking for developers to work in a team to produce this game, and we will be publishing the game they make! If you are interested, please follow the link to our detailed announcement and within there you will find the rules, requirements, and application process. If you have wanted to get into the gaming industry, if you love playing games, and if you are a creative thinker, not afraid of a challenge and a bit of risk, then you need to take a look." I don't know whether to be happy about anything that promotes Linux gaming, or disappointed that people are being asked to work on a commercial project without a salary.
Maybe we should all help contribute to the 'slash' code instead of working on this commercial project. Ha!
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ANNOUNCEMENT:
./ readership start developing products for me!
I'm taking applications for people to make a product for me. I'm much more flexible, in that it _doesn't have to be a game_. It could be anything. How about a new type of car? Or some sort of exciting new food product?
Anyway, i'll be happy to introduce the team to each other. Then you guys can get to work inventing something fantastic. I won't pay you or anything, you just get together somehow and do it. W00t
When you're done, give me a call. I'll look at it, and if I think its a product that can make money, i'll market it, sell it, and keep 30% of the profits from it. Think about it though, if you invent something worth 10 million dollars, you make SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS. Thats a lot of money.
If your product is crappy, I'm not going to try to sell it or anything. I have a life, you know.
Sound exciting? Well, it sure sounds exciting to me. In fact, i'm not going to limit it to a group of 8, i'm willing to let the entire
Godspeed and Good luck!
...their web server isn't getting paid either ;)
Developers are obliged to make the minimum 10 hours a week commitment...
Let's see here, 8 people working at 10 hours a week. Is LGP also managing the team working on Duke Nukem Forever?
I've used the term Rock Band companies before based on the high school rock band.
A bunch of kids get together and decide on a 'bitchin name for their band.
Then they scribble it on their bass drum.
Then, they actually start thinking about the music.
Looks like they're doing the same thing here. The first thing they have scheduled is to think of the name for the company, (and make sure you can grab the domain name!!!) then it looks like part 2 of the agenda is to invent a new genre of computer game. Well, wouldn't I like to be a fly on the wall in THAT meeting!
Next you'll be saying that people will just donate their work to, oh, I dunno, say create an entire operating system from scratch.
We all know that that will never work.
There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
LinuxQuest!
Yes, create your own Linux progammer that you control in a simulated world! Fight the evil memory-leak demons! Defend the kernel from rampaging orcs!
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Dear Gannoc,
I have devised a wonderful method for quickly factoring large prime numbers. I'm sure this discovery is worth quite a good bit of money but I have no knowledge as to how to go about marketing my idea or even patenting it. I would love to share my money with you, and maybe your friends too.
Thanks
do not read this line twice.
6 teams of 8 programmers each. Give the teams names like "The Lightning Crew" and "Project: Dynamite".
Then, let them compete with each other in a bitter struggle to earn the affection of LGP by developing the best game.
The contest can be punctuated by weekly challenges. Say, two teams have to play a UT2003 team deathmatch against each other... WITH THE MONITORS UPSIDE DOWN. The winners get use of a rendering farm for a day. The losers lose their internet connection for 48 hours.
Or, the teams need to rot13 encode the first page of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by hand, while a naked man squirts lemon juice in their eyes. The winner receives their choice of an O'Reilly book. The loser probably goes blind for a day.
Or, a chosen member of each team has to write a functioning HTTP server (text only!), while being forced to watch the goatse.cx website - Clockwork Orange style. The winner receives a 2.0ghz P4 system from Gateway.com. The loser has his liver pecked out by ravens.
Slowly but surely, a product emerges and is judged. Now _thats_ something that will propel the linux gaming movement forward. Hop to it.
Here's my business contribution:
"Synergy"
Now, I expect to be entitled to a cut in whatever you end up manufacturing of course...
Yep, absolutley. I mean, look at Tetris. That was started with a programmer first, they even completely forgot the plot writers, and look where that ended up!
I mean, damn, you wouldn't want this thing to turn into another Tetris would you. That'd be pretty sucky.