Re: List of Debian games & scripts 1/2

[Josh Branning <lovell joshyyy gmail com>]

On 23/07/16 20:53, Megh Parikh wrote:
> > Personally, I would like to know which of all these games can use or uses a gamepad. Is this something 
> > gnome-games is or may be working on?
>
> I am working on a project to add gamepad support to gnome-games. By
> gnome-games I mean the emulator-cum-catalogue application and not the
> package of bundled GNOME games. For this I had also created a library
> (it is currently not up-to-date with the main code in GNOME Games),
> libgamepad - https://github.com/meghprkh/libgamepad . This library is
> written in Vala and hence should be compatible with GLib/GObject
> -based games/applications. But as of now this is only compatible with
> Vala programs since I have not been able to properly configured GIR
> support. Since sometime I have been a little busy and hence unable to
> improve this library but I will do it soon.

Thanks for replying. Most video game consoles and console emulators are 
designed to use gamepads, so I can understand how launching an emulator 
from the catalogue, using a gamepad might work.

Though, as I'm sure you are aware. It becomes problematic when launching 
a native game which doesn't use a gamepad, from a GUI which does. The 
user either has to switch to using the keyboard/mouse, use something 
like antimicro, or just not play the game in the first place if using a 
gamepad.

That's why I am seeking a list of native games that can be launched from 
a gamepad GUI, and then can be actually played using a gamepad, in order 
to help the user's experience whilst selecting and playing games when 
using one.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find this information using "apt-cache show" 
on Debian, in my script.

I also don't think I could realistically get this information on my own 
by testing each game, but perhaps if there were enough people testing 
and collating the information on whether the game can use a gamepad or 
not, some progress could be made on this front.

Josh

> I had also made a branch of GNOME Nibbles that works with gamepad
> support based on an older version of libgamepad
> https://github.com/meghprkh/gnome-nibbles/tree/dirty/feature/gamepad
>
> Also you might be interested in antimicro
> https://github.com/AntiMicro/antimicro , while I have not tried it, it
> states that it can be used to add gamepad support to games which dont
> support it