Group:LibrePlanet Gaming Collective

About us

The LibrePlanet Gaming Collective is a group of free software activists organized around their enthusiasm for video games. By gathering around free software video games, we are furthering the ideals of free software and related issues as necessary means for a free society. We operate in accordance with the LibrePlanet Mission Statement and Code of Conduct.

This group is working towards a free society through free software, but we are not just a GNU/Linux Gaming Team. We promote any video games that respect the freedom of its users, not all games that run on GNU/Linux. We are a team with a mission! We recognize that some people choose to make compromises, temporary or otherwise, with proprietary software, and some who may not always say GNU/Linux, or "free software" instead of "open source", and we welcome those people to join us and discuss their thoughts, but as a LibrePlanet team, we frame terms accordingly. We are open to people of all levels of interest in free software and welcome new participants. We are all united in the fight for software freedom as an important and necessary means for the prospect of a free society.

Goals

• Educate
  • Inform the public about free software
• Advocate
  • Promote free software tools through projects, campaigns, and events
• Supply
  • Provide materials and increase the availability of free software
• Support
  • Offer local help getting and using free software
• Unite
  • Bridge connections between free software activists and users
• And most of all...
  • HAVING FUN!

Join us

To become a member of the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective, please

• Join our IRC channel: #libreplanet-gaming on FreeNode
• Join our associated sub-reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/FreeGaming
• Join our team list by adding {{user Gaming}} anywhere on your profile
• Participate!

Meetings

• No current schedule for meetings.

Activities

• Play games on the games.libreplanet.org server.
  • Currently, you can play and watch others play nethack, or join in a game of minetest.
    • Admire and become inspired by our nethack high scores.

• The obvious: LAN party, with only free games!
  • If anyone knows of an awesome free MMORPG, that would probably draw a crowd
    • Ryzom MMORPG is mature, unique, fully AGPL'd (code) and CC (art).
    • Battle for Wesnoth apparently has networked multiplayer

Contact

You may reach the team via IRC (see above) or by emailing the discussion list:

• LibrePlanet@libreplanet.org

Members

LibrePlanet Gaming Collective

Note	Gaming Collective for Free Software Activists
Contact	User:Mtraceur/Profile, User:Pehjota, The GNU/Kitten
Members	14
Description	Gaming Collective for Free Software Activists
Current status	Active

Members
Broam
Drpanter
KK
Katnjia
Maolins
Nullis0
Pehjota
Sanglori
Stump
Sudoman
Tmb
Tonghuix
Trinux
VRMac/Profile

Ideas

• Join the efforts of reverse engineering Starbound, as it is a pretty rad video game with great community -- http://starbound-dev.org/

Links

• Free Software Directory list of free games
• FreeGameDev forum for Free Game development and discussion.
• FreeGamer (collaborative blog) covers only free, open source games.
• Linux Game Tome lists Linux games and marks games with "source available", so it's rather easy to look for Free games.
• LibreGameWiki lists only free, open source games.
• Patware disorderly games list by AGNUcius
• Short list of libre games.

This page was a featured resource in May 2012.