the number of respondents. More than I expected. And there seems to be
generally more interest in playing weekly multiplayer games than I've
been seeing, I think that what we need to do is have more accessable
games for a while to build up interest, then we can have more variety.
I'm going to adjust the gaming schedule a bit to reflect the results of
this survey.
I have excluded my own survey submittion in the results.
Total Responses: 18 so far
1. Are you interested in playing games under Linux?
(15) Yes
(3) No
2. Do you regularly play games on any other OS besides Linux?
(10) Yes
(8) No
3. Have you played in one of the BLUG gaming sessions before?
(13) No
(5) Yes
4. If yes, which one?
(4) bzflag
5. If you had to choose, which of the following types of games would you rather play?
Multi Player (14)
Massively Multiplayer (3)
6. Choose three of your favorite gaming genres
(11) Shooter (2d, first person, third person)
(7) Action
(6) Adventure
(5) Simulation (Economic/Building)
(4) Role Playing
(4) Strategy
(2) Emulators (Vice, MAME, etc)
(2) Massively Multiplayer
(2) Racing
(2) Simulation (Other)
(1) Puzzle
(1) Simulation (Flying)
(1) Simulation (People)
(1) OTHER: Rouge-like (forgot this genre, sorry)
7. Which of the following commercial Linux-compatible games do you own? (check all that apply)
(6) Quake 3
(5) Doom 3
(3) Unreal Tournament 2004
(2) Neverwinter Nights (any edition)
(2) Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
(1) Aliens vs Predator
(1) Darwinia
(1) Defcon
(1) Quake IV
(1) Second Life (subscription)
(1) Serious Sam: The First Encounter
(1) Sim City 3000
(1) Unreal Tourament 2003
8. Would you buy a Linux compatible game just to play it regularly in the BLUG gaming sessions?
(9) Yes
(8) No
9. What days of the week would you most likely be able to play in the BLUG gaming sessions? (Check all that apply)
(7) Saturday
(7) Sunday
(5) Any day
(4) Friday
(3) Tuesday
(3) Wednesday
(3) Thursday
(0) Monday
10. During what time of day would you most likely be able to play in a BLUG gaming session? (Check all that apply)
(14) 8pm - midnight
(8) midnight - 3am
(4) 4pm - 8pm
(4) 3am - 6am (night owl)
(1) 8am - noon
(1) noon - 4pm
(0) 6am - 8am
(0) Any time of day
11. Is there a certain number of players that would need to be in the game before you'd be interested in playing?
(9) I'm fine waiting if I'm the first one
(2) 1
(2) 3
(1) 2
(1) 4
12. Which of the following open source/free games do you currently have installed?
(9) BZFlag
(7) Frozen Bubble
(6) World of Padman
(4) OpenArena
(4) TuxRacer/PPRacer
(3) Cube
(3) GLTron
(3) Quake 3
(2) Neverball/Neverputt
(2) Nexiuz
(2) Warsow
(2) Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
(1) Alien Arena 2007
(1) America's Army
(1) FooBilliard
(1) Quake 2
(1) Racer
(1) Sauerbraten
(1) Torcs
(1) OTHER: egoboo
13. Of the following games, name 3 that you'd be most interested in playing in the weekly sessions?
(7) BZFlag
(6) World of Padman
(5) Quake 3
(2) America's Army
(2) OpenArena
(2) Unreal Tournament 2004
(2) Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
(1) Battle for Wesnoth
(1) Cube
(1) Doom 3
(1) Neverwinter Nights
(1) Sauerbraten
(1) StepMania
15. Anonymous comments that were interesting:
o I don't play games often enough for my opinion to really matter... =)
o I'd focus on freely available games
o I'm not particularly educated on what all the good games for Linux are.
o Right now I'm on a BZ kick.
o So, I'm not saying I'd NEVER play a game like this, I suspect I'd
enjoy it once or twice to see what it's like. But, I am really not in to
video games, so I don't think you should base any of the decisions on
someone like me.
o What about making our own BLUG game, for example with PyGame?
o Wish egoboo were networkable; any thoughts on "adopting" an incomplete
open source game?
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Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
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