May I introduce… this is the Blog for the Ubuntu Gamer Project, which aims to bring many new games to your Ubuntu box. The games will always be packaged for the current stable Ubuntu release. They are published by the new PPA (Personal Package Archive) service from Launchpad which allows us to publish games in all available Architectures at once.
The goal of this project is to bring as many open games to Ubuntu as possible. In order to be packaged by UbuntuGamer, they must be licensed in a way that they can be published over the PPA (see PPA Terms Of Use for more information), so no closed-source games can be published.
Every package will be announced here in this blog so you always get informed about the latest packages. I hope I (and maybe some other volunteers) will be able to create many game packages. Maybe the one or other package will be adopted by the Ubuntu Universe or Debian.
In order to use the UbuntuGamer repository, simply add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugamer/ubuntu gutsy main
If you have any wishes which game we shall package, or if you find a bug, please do not hesitate to submit a report to The Ubuntu Gamer Bugtracker at Launchpad. If you want to help out with packaging, just email me.
Have a lot of fun with gaming on your Ubuntu Box.
November 6, 2007 at 9:44 am
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November 6, 2007 at 1:12 pm
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November 6, 2007 at 2:09 pm
great proyect !! go on
November 6, 2007 at 2:18 pm
we want more games
November 6, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Having just installed the latest Ubuntu distro over my annoying Windows XP Tablet Edition installation I would be pleased to see more effort going into Ubuntu gaming. Count me in.
November 6, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Good idea!
November 6, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Hi, great proyect
love some of the games already published
would also be great if getdeb.net and ubuntu gamer could cooperate closely together or atleast so packages don’t get repeated and or bug reporting
anyway keep up good work, the community appreciates it
November 6, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Thanks for your encouraging comments! I am really surprised about the hits I had on the blog, this is heavily motivating.
Manny, I already contacted them, and probably the packages will be available on getdeb.net as well. I will keep you informed on this blog.
November 7, 2007 at 4:00 am
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November 7, 2007 at 8:02 am
The Ubuntu community needs something like this. We need GAMEEES!
I think it’s a really important and not much attended point and I’m glad that there’s people here who makes it easier.
Good luck!
July 3, 2008 at 6:37 pm
yeah man, you can do it and do revolution in world games under linux. i really surprised and congratualations to you