Re: [BLUG] Bloomington Lan party April 18th @ Fountain Squre

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 04:22:04PM GMT, Barry Schatz [sorbetninja@gmail.com] said the following:
> Nexuiz is in Debian's repos and World of Padman is freely available. I
> might not be able to buy Enemy Territory in time for the party. I'll
> check GameStop and EB Games if I remember.

Well, there definatley isn't a requirement to go out and buy games. If
you want to, that's great. I know its old now (sniff), but if anyone
wants to play some Neverwinter Nights under Linux I have two copies of
the game, maybe someone else has another so that would make three. I
also have Doom 3, Quake 4 and World of Warcraft (can play using Wine).
If anyone else has those games and will be coming, let us know.

I think its important to show and realize that there are commercial
games out there that work in Linux. Especially just in the past year or
two.

> My suggestions include the classic BZFlag and Frozen Bubble, in addition
> to games mentioned already.

Those are good too. Also:

OpenArena
TORCS
Daimonin
Warsow

To through some others out there, here is the list from the wiki for the
2005 Linux Gaming Fest:

* Armagetron
* BZFlag
* Tux Racer
* Legends
* TORCS
* Battle for Wesnoth
* Glest
* Gate 88
* Globulation 2
* Scorched 3D
* netPanzer
* Mistlands
* Fight Win Prevail
* Cube
* Cannon Smash
* Tornado (ascii-multiplayer-destroy-your-neighbors-house-with-weather game)

* Unreal Tournament 2004
* Neverwinter Nights

Also, as noted on that page, a problem we ran into back then was that
there were version differences between distributions of Linux and some
of the games required the same version to be used, which sucked.

There are something like 65 5 star rated games listed on
happypenguin.org. And a lot of the 4 star ones are good too.

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Re: [BLUG] Bloomington Lan party April 18th @ Fountain Squre

Nexuiz is in Debian's repos and World of Padman is freely available. I
might not be able to buy Enemy Territory in time for the party. I'll
check GameStop and EB Games if I remember.

My suggestions include the classic BZFlag and Frozen Bubble, in addition
to games mentioned already.

-Barry

David Bell wrote:
>
> Attending User Group Members,
>
> I was thinking it would be a good idea to get a solid list of 3 or 4
> games determined ahead of time so we all can make sure they are
> installed and running.
>
> My suggestions are the following, please respond with additions or
> changes and we can get those few games decided upon.
>
> Nexuiz
> Enemy Territory
> World of Padman
>
>
> Thanks,
> David.
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[BLUG] Bloomington Lan party April 18th @ Fountain Squre

Attending User Group Members,

I was thinking it would be a good idea to get a solid list of 3 or 4 games determined ahead of time so we all can make sure they are installed and running.

My suggestions are the following, please respond with additions or changes and we can get those few games decided upon.

Nexuiz
Enemy Territory
World of Padman

Thanks,
David. 

[BLUG] Linux LAN Party - Game On! April 18th

Ah what the hell. Let's have a LAN party this Saturday. ;-)

Maybe it will only be a few people, but we'll still have fun, and I
have a feeling that after this week is over, I'll really need the
entertainment as probably you will too. If anyone wants to pass this
announcement on to other lists, be my guest. Actually, I could use some
help with promotion of this, if someone could pass it along to the IU
computer gaming club that would help. Also, maybe setting up a page on
the BLUG wiki would be good.

So here is the plan:

Time: Saturday April 18th, 10am - midnight

Cost: Free (as in beer)

Location: 101 W. Kirkwood Avenue, Fountain Square Mall Suite 222
(Take the glass elevator to the 2nd floor and its right in
front of you). This is the offices of suso.com. Let me know
if you need better directions than this, but its right in
downtown Bloomington.

Refreshments: We'll supply some refreshments, but it would help if
some of you could bring a few of your own. We'll buy
some pizza around lunch.

What's going on:

All kinds of things. We don't just have to play games, this can be
a general hacking/tutoring/social occation. I imagine we'll play games
a lot, but also I'd like to do some stuff in Blender 3D and also some
coding. So if you are interested in doing something else, come along
and share. You don't even have to be a Linux user to attend.

As far as games go, there are so many open source games now its
hard to name all the good ones, Nexiuz is nice, and there are other
FPS games. Then there are many other games on http://www.happypenguin.org
that we can try out.

I'll also show off World of Warcraft running under Wine and a few
other commercial games.

What to bring:

I'd love it if you brought your own computer. Not only because it
will give more people chances to play, but also to show off how you use
your own desktop, etc. I'm going to setup a couple of tables and chairs
for setup, it would be great if you could bring your own chair because
we only have 6 usable ones here. Please let me know if you plan on bringing
anything.

We also have a Toshiba 46" LCD TV in our office to use so that
should be fun for displaying things.

Bringing your own headphones would be a good idea as well.

An extra 8 port ethernet switch and some extra power strips might
help if anyone wants to bring some. I already have plenty of ethernet
cables. ;-)

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Re: [BLUG] Linux LAN Party canceled

If it helps, I plan to bring multiple computers, so I could provide a
loaner to someone.

Also, I KNOW there are more people on the list than have responded, so I
wonder why so many people are just lurking.

Lastly, was a date finalized? According to the date survey, April 18th
worked best.

-Barry

Date poll:
http://www.doodle.com/wvc4pfk2g7wyzfgf

Mark Krenz wrote:
> I'm sorry to the couple of people who responded, I just don't want to
> bother with it if only 2 or 3 people are going to show up over the
> course of a whole day. I was hoping for like 10-20 people.
>
> If more 10 people can convince me that they would definately make it
> next Saturday the 18th and they can bring a computer of their own, then
> I will hold it, buy pizza, drinks, etc.
>
> To convince me, all you have to do is answer this survey:
>
> http://www.doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=szy7qutx9z2ntawm
>
>
> Don't get me wrong, I'd love to host this event because it will be a
> lot of fun, but right now it just doesn't seem that enough people are
> interested.
>
> Mark
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:27:10PM GMT, Barry Schatz [sorbetninja@gmail.com] said the following:
>
>> :(
>>
>> And here I was ready to bring most of my computing power to show off. It
>> sucks, but that's reality I guess.
>>
>> -Barry
>>
>> Mark Krenz wrote:
>>
>>> Not enough interest was shown in the Linux LAN Party, so I'm just
>>> going to cancel it. Enjoy your weekend.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
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Re: [BLUG] Linux LAN Party canceled

:(

And here I was ready to bring most of my computing power to show off. It
sucks, but that's reality I guess.

-Barry

Mark Krenz wrote:
> Not enough interest was shown in the Linux LAN Party, so I'm just
> going to cancel it. Enjoy your weekend.
>
> Mark
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Re: [BLUG] Linux LAN Party canceled

I'm sorry to the couple of people who responded, I just don't want to
bother with it if only 2 or 3 people are going to show up over the
course of a whole day. I was hoping for like 10-20 people.

If more 10 people can convince me that they would definately make it
next Saturday the 18th and they can bring a computer of their own, then
I will hold it, buy pizza, drinks, etc.

To convince me, all you have to do is answer this survey:

http://www.doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=szy7qutx9z2ntawm

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to host this event because it will be a
lot of fun, but right now it just doesn't seem that enough people are
interested.

Mark

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:27:10PM GMT, Barry Schatz [sorbetninja@gmail.com] said the following:
> :(
>
> And here I was ready to bring most of my computing power to show off. It
> sucks, but that's reality I guess.
>
> -Barry
>
> Mark Krenz wrote:
> > Not enough interest was shown in the Linux LAN Party, so I'm just
> > going to cancel it. Enjoy your weekend.
> >
> > Mark
> >
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