Re: List of Debian games & scripts 1/2

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2016-07-23 at 21:38 +0100, Josh Branning wrote:
> 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.

Most of those games don't come from GNOME, so there's not really any
way for us to tell you which ones support joystick controls, without
trying them all ourselves.

My thinking is that, however you end up finding out that they support
gamepad, arcade stick or joystick controls, or even keyboard, just
mouse or a combination of both, this is information that should be
available in each one of those games' appdata files, which already
contains plenty of metadata about applications.

I filed:
https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/55
about this.

Cheers