Re: Gaming on Guix

[jbranso@dismail.de]

February 11, 2024 at 6:26 AM, "Tobias Alexandra Platen" <guix@platen-software.de> wrote:



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> 
> I am a libre game developer and I plan to package my game that I am
>  currently working on for Guix. On the long term I also want to make a
>  scalable distribution service that one can self host and which allows
>  paying for games using GNU Taler. Once the user has payed they can get
>  substitutes, if they don't want to pay, they still have the freedom
>  to build the game from source. I propose the name GNUtris for this
>  service. 
>  
>  First I will make a home page using haunt for my game. Then I start
>  packaging ist dependencies, starting with libsurvive, which is needed
>  to use the Valve Index. Then I package the rest of the software,
>  needed to run the game. Finally I setup a sales/crowdfunding page,
>  this will be the harded part of my project. I heard that Taler will
>  soon go into production in the Euro zone.
>  
>  PS: I try to avoid Steam, Nonguix and the Guix Gaming Channels
>

I am definitely gave for chipping in for your crowdfunding campaign 
for this.  I think we should find a pay to pay libre developers, and
this sounds like a great idea!

Also, you can also license your game source code as GPL, but license
the game assets as proprietary.  This does not violate the GPL.

Joshua