Game On!

[John Myshrall]

JoeHill wrote:
> Channelling Xenu, John Myshrall's body Thetan said: 
>
>   
>> JoeHill wrote:
>>     
>>> Channelling Xenu, Scott Elcomb's body Thetan said: 
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> I came across this article this morning:
>>>>
>>>> "Nuxified.org and Cluenet.org are preparing to hold a Free Software
>>>> gaming tournament. Its purpose is to promote gaming in the Free
>>>> Software world, on operating systems such as GNU/Linux, and *BSD and
>>>> show that gaming is not limited to proprietary platforms such as
>>>> Microsoft's Windows."
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like fun.  :-)
>>>>
>>>> To read the article:
>>>>   http://tinyurl.com/3ck2kl
>>>> or
>>>>   http://www.nuxified.org/article/nuxified_and_cluenet_prepare_a_gaming_tourney_you_are_invited
>>>>
>>>> To signup:
>>>>   http://www.nuxified.org/topic/sign_up_here_for_the_tourney
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> So far it looks like my favourite game is not going to make it in, due to
>>> the <sarcasm>massive</sarcasm> majority that is voting for only including
>>> games that are absolutely free, ie. including the game data. Because the
>>> license for UT, as far as I can tell, says that the data cannot be
>>> distributed or used for commercial purposes, it is not 'free'. Am I correct
>>> in this interpretation?
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> Joe have you tried Tremulous yet ? UT is still gr8 however I haven't 
>> played since 2004 edition. Trem rocks !
>>     
>
> Tremulous looks cool, especially playing as an alien, I like pretending I'm
> spiderman.
>
> I haven't _played_ it yet, as it looks like there is some degree of learning
> involved with regard to the whole constructing game elements thing, like the
> automated turrets and such. Almost sounds like the old Weapons Factory mod for
> Q3, in fact...
>
> I did notice in the game browser that there appear to be a lot of very active
> servers in Toronto though, any one in particular you can recommend? If this is
> going to be a game at the tourney, and I may just attend, then I should get
> some practice time in ;)
>
>   
Dretch Storm rocks as a Tremulous server. Very little lag and there is a 
Forum Site set up as well. I'm Opus there.

http://dretchstorm.com/

HTH

John



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