Re: GUADEC 2014 video games BoF summary

[Mario Wenzel <maweki gmail com>]

Since we're sharing a mailing list:

We, managing/maintaining the gnome games, are pretty agile if you need
any added metadata-files. Maybe an extension to the appdata-files could
be useful to aid discovery.

I have yet to take a proper look at your proposals but I don't think you
will get any resistance from us.

We wanted the gnome games to be a unified experience. So the only thing
I would like to see is a common design (Allan Day has been doing good
work) for the Game Browser or frontend-part of the project and the gnome
games.
This shouldn't exclude customization for living-room-setups of course.

Mario


Am Mittwoch, den 06.08.2014, 18:37 +0200 schrieb Adrien Plazas:
> Hi everyone,
>
> On GUADEC 2014 I presented the GNOME Video Games (woring title ;) )
> projet and I leaded a BoF about it. Here is a presentation of this
> project, a summary of what have been said during the BoF and a kind of
> roadmap for the project.
>
>
> Don't hesitate to participate by sharing ideas or giving a hand!
>
>
>
> The project's past and present
> The project have been started by Laurent Pointecouteau
> (https://wiki.gnome.org/LaurentPointecouteau) during 2012 and I
> quickly joined the project. I worked on this project on my spare time
> since then, mostly on researches. Unfortunately after some months,
> Laurent have been less and less present on this project. If you ever
> read this mail, come back Laurent, the fun part is barely starting!
>
> Most of our researches have been compiled on that wiki entry:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Playground/Games
>
> During spring 2013, a game launcher prototype have been produced
> (https://github.com/Kekun/video-games). It's written in Vala and
> Python and not much have changed since. During fall 2013, a game
> console emulator integration prototype have been produced
> (https://github.com/Kekun/retro-gobject), leveraging the power of
> libretro. It's written in Vala and C and not much have changed since
> also. Both prototypes have been demoed extremely briefly during GUADEC
> 2014.
>
>
> GUADEC 2014 BoF summary
> Goals
>       * Being an interface for games which don't have one (game engine
>         packages, ROMs…)
>       * Focusing on metadata (author, realease date, players number,
>         used input devices…)
>       * Integrate the games as much as possible into the interface
>         (may not be possible for native and Windows games)
>       * Advanced seach based on the metadata
>       * Search for any type of game in GNOME Shell
>       * …
> Non-goals
>       * Being a game provider (or a game store)
> Title proposals:
> The title must reflect what we want the software to be. The title is
> still to discuss. Some possible title are already taken by actual
> GNOME projects (GNOME Games and GNOME Video Arcade) and some are too
> close to other similar softwares (Game Center on iOS).
>
> Here are the different proposals:
>
>       * GNOME Arcades
>       * GNOME Entertainement System
>       * GNOME Game Box
>       * GNOME Game Center
>       * GNOME Game Collection
>       * GNOME Game Library
>       * GNOME Game Shelf
>       * GNOME Gamer
>       * GNOME One-up
>       * GNOME Play
>       * GNOME Player
>       * GNOME Press Start
>       * GNOME Video Games
>       * GNOME Videya (can anyone explain me what it means?)
>
> A vote may help to decide what name we should choose. The softaware
> may also have a nickname reflecting the canges of a specific release,
> like Super *software's name* for SNES's support or Mega *software's
> name* for Mega Drive's support.
>
>
> Gamepads
> Gamepad support for the most common gamepads should be added to the
> Control Center (Xbox 360 Controller, DualShock 3, Wiimote). As I own
> the three of them so I'll be able to help testing implementing such a
> feature.
>
>
> Shell integration:
> It still have to be decided how the application may integrate into the
> shell. Games presented as desktop entries may be problematic.
>
>
> Achievements:
> It is definitely a potential long term goal, but integrating with
> achievments may be nice.
>
> Some achievements related websites:
>
>       * http://steamcommunity.com/
>       * http://www.xboxachievements.com/
>       * http://www.playstationtrophies.org/
>       * http://retroachievements.org/
>
>
> First release
> It would be nice to have a minimal first release for 3.16
>
> It haves to include:
>
>       * Support for desktop games, Steam games included (with
>         metadata)
>       * No support for gamepad, achievements or anything fancy yet
>
> It may include:
>
>       * Support for DOS games, as they are easy to find legaly
>
> Next versions:
>
>       * Support some video game consoles
>       * Support a tiny number of gamepads
> Components to develop
> The application:
>
>       * It should be re-written in Vala
>       * It should use GtkBuilder when possible
>       * It should use Grilo to look for game metadata
>       * It may use Tracker to look for games
>       * It may use GOM to save user specific data
>       * It should look for games in ~/Games (except for special cases
>         like desktop entries)
>
> The libretro binding:
>
>       * A sort of ABI compatible GObject-based libretro implementation
>         which actually alows to load libretro cores
>       * It haves to be polished (needed for DOS support)
>       * Shall we port it to C totally imstead of the actual Vala and
>         C?
>
> The Grilo plugins
>
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