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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Do You Play Video Games? Post 302342755 by Corona688 on Monday 10th of August 2009 04:29:05 PM

08-10-2009

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I voted 'almost never', but its not that simple. I'll go long stretches without playing games then have short stretches in which I play them a lot. Dwarf Fortress is a current favorite. Its an odd thing... Its vaguely like simcity simulated down to individual-person level, and by "person" I mean "short, angry, and flammable".

It is still very alpha, and it shows. The interface is somewhat inscrutiable, and its quite buggy, but the bugs are usually metagame errors and hilarious: "flying creatures give birth in midair, leading to tragedy", "mayor ordered himself beaten for failing to make crystal glass", "goblins teleport to capture location on fire when dropped in lava", "amputee liason leaves an extra sock and shoe on the map edge whenever she arrives", and so forth.

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game-data-packager

game-data-packager(6)						   Games Manual 					     game-data-packager(6)

NAME

       game-data-packager - build a .deb of game data

SYNOPSIS

       game-data-packager [ -i ] [ -d out-directory [ -n ] ] game [ game-options ]

DESCRIPTION

       Many  open-source games require game data which is licensed incompatibly with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.  game-data-packager is a
       tool designed to help you locally assemble Debian packages containing such game data from CD-ROMs, the Internet or elsewhere.

OPTIONS

       -i     attempt to install the generated Debian package via dpkg(1) and su(1)

       -d out-directory
	      writes the generated Debian package to the specified directory.

       -n     Do not attempt to install the generated Debian package. This option must be used in conjunction with -d.

       game   The game being packaged. Running game-data-packager without arguments will display a list of valid games. Running game-data-packager
	      with just the game and no further arguments will display a list of valid options for that game.

SEE ALSO

       dpkg(1), su(1)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 2010 Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
       Thanks to Branden Robinson for his 'Write the Fine Manual' presentation, once found at <http://people.debian.org/~branden/talks/wtfm/>

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