[Hamara-devel] Space Station 13 remake - game

[shirish]

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On 05/26/2015 11:49 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 25/05/15 10:46, shirish wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> This is once a proprietary, now FOSS game :-
>>
>> http://spacestation13.com/about-2/
>>
>> https://github.com/ss13remake/ss13remake
>>
>> The sprites are not the same as are seen as screenshots, there are
>> place-holder sprites but will community engagement to do better.
>>
>> People could use gimp, krita and blender to make the sprites and make
>> the game good as well.
>
> I think You would do very well in increasing the size of the community -
> by publicising some of these projects in a more official "Hamara" capacity.

Sure. My only query is when we should do that and where, the blogs, the 
wiki, videos or all of them? This also does remind me that there are 
quite a few TED talks on gaming and possibly positive engagements with 
gaming, learning that could be used when we decide to work with teachers 
and schools. I would explore and share a list of videos that we could 
show to teachers, discuss and see what they think of that in their own 
schools before introducing gaming in their schools.

Such Videos would also be useful to engage with parents as well in 
PTA's. Just like elsewhere in the world, at least in the more affluent 
schools you do have PTA's once a month or once in 3 months.

I have re-connected with couple of teachers I know in couple of affluent 
schools in Pune and would be meeting with them over the week-end to know 
a bit of their processes now, their issues as well as how do we engage 
with them using what can be known.

I probably would be able to prepare a somewhat longer note on Monday or 
Tuesday which probably would either have ideas or questions or both for 
people to look at and see how do we proceed with what is known.

> Keep all of this in your back pocked, once the debian base is out, we
> should be looking at packaging / promoting FOSS projects like the above.

Don't worry, there are plenty of such FOSS projects out there. This was 
just an example and then again we haven't really explored it at all 
which will require some serious game-time and perhaps some debugging 
time as well (possibly) Debianization would be a long way before all 
niggles are fixed and we know what other libraries would need to be 
packaged first before the game itself can be packaged. :)

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Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org