Features/GamesSpin

Fedora 11 Games Spin

Summary

To provide a Fedora Games Spin (live dvd) as part of the Fedora 11 release

Owner

• Name: Bruno Wolff

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 11
• Initial kickstart file exists in the spin-kickstarts package in F10
• Three games have been identified for removal
  • starfighter - Removed from Fedora because of license issues
  • vdrift - Only works with binary blob video drivers which won't be on the games spin DVD
  • uqm* - uqm-data was removed removed from Fedora because of license issues and is 100+ MBs of data that would need to be downloaded before the game could be played.
• The base kickstart has been changed from fedora-live-base to fedora-livecd-desktop to get a display manager
• Test iso images are being produced that work with casual testing
• Space is very tight. Some packages from fedora-livecd-desktop may need to be removed or livecd-creator may need to be [| changed to work with a squashfs file system over 4 GiB]. The latter would add over 300 MB of compressed space while still fiting on a DVD.
• Several games packages are missing depencies for their scripts. These are being tracked in bugs [475915,
• Percentage of completion: 10%

Detailed Description

Fedora 8 had a games spin, which unfortunately was not maintained for Fedora 9. There were problems building it for Fedora 10 that were not resolved in time for the release. This is an attempt to revive this spin for Fedora 11.

Benefit to Fedora

It would be great to demonstrate to gamers that Fedora is a more viable platform for them. We also will be including edutainment applications for kids to learn.

Scope

We will include many games that are not installed by default in the desktop spin. Since the total set of games will not fit on a single DVD, we will try to include the more polished games available, including those that require 3D graphics support and network play.

Test Plan

Release alpha and beta releases in sync with Fedora 11

Test that the Applications->Games menu has the correct subcategories

Test that each game starts when run from the Application->Games menu

Test a sample of 3D games to ensure that they work on supported 3D hardware (How do we get coverage of the various video cards?)

Verify that sound (music, sound effects) work in a sample of games

Verify that network games work with the livedvd networking out of the box

Verify that automatic screen mode switching works for games in fullscreen mode

User Experience

A similar experience to the default desktop spin, except that the Applications->Games menu will be populated with a large number of games split into subcategories.

Dependencies

This spin depends on a working -desktop and/or -xfce spin.

There is not a lot of interdependency between the individual games, so the final list of games that will be included will likely continue to change as new games are added before F-11 is released

Contingency Plan

• Don't include a spin

Documentation

• We can provide a list of all of the games included in the spin, but will not include a description and documentation for each and every game. Some brief documentation of some games is being maintained at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Games

Release Notes

• Ditto as documentation

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/GamesSpin

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