[Kde-games-devel] KDE Legacy Entertainment

[Mauricio Piacentini]

Martin Heni wrote:
 > Btw dont get me wrong: The goal should be to update the stuff but I 
am not
 > sure your list is the right priority. E.g. I'd very much prefer a 
game with a
 > good "fun factor" over "I can quit and restart the game". Actually 
I'd prefer
 > this a lot ;-)

I agree with Martin. And I also agree with Dennis :) The data in the 
survey can be twisted (as all data can) to justify almost any decision 
:) And we must remember it is not final yet, and some issues will only 
be more clear when we have a chance to work with the final data set. As 
an example, the current ratings only have meaning if you also consider 
how many people rated each game, and this data is not yet nicely 
tabulated and organized. This is one of the reasons I proposed the IRC 
meeting next week, so we all can spend one hour looking at the final 
data and trying to make sense out of it. You see that some answers are 
apparently contraditory, and this is expected. The number 2 most desired 
feature is "more game types", and at the same time the majority of 
people voted for "fewer and better games". :)

As someone once said, asking people what they want and going by the 
average answer is usually the best way to produce a mediocre product. 
But still, this is a valid resource, it can be used to validate what you 
have already proposed. I almost bet that the reason most people answered 
that they wanted better looking games is because we are ALREADY working 
on this, and have shown preliminary results (kpat and kmahjongg). So 
people saw it, and liked it.

I also believe there should be a strong reason for us to remove a game, 
since some distros already cherry-pick which ones to include. But if a 
game is not rated highly AND is not ported to KDE4 AND has poor graphics 
AND no one is willing to maintain it anymore, then I would probably 
support moving it to a kdegames-legacy collection. The idea presented by 
Dennis has some very good points: the way we present our actions really 
reflects on the results perceived by the community. If we say "we moved 
these older games to some unmaintained oldies package" it will probably 
sound bad. But we also have an unique chance now: KDE4 is a new major 
release, so in theory we are not "removing" anything just yet. Some 
reorganization of the package seems in line with a major upgrade, and 
the idea of more than a single monolithic games package seems to be popular.

I am most concerned on how to improve games, actually. The only clear 
data I can see at this partial stage is that the feature that people 
find more important right now for KDE4 is to improve the graphics and 
sound. Fortunately, this is what we are already doing, and it is not too 
difficult as well. I see that Denis also lists this as one of his top 
priorities, so apparently it is something we all agree on so far!

Regards,
Mauricio Piacentini