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  • From: Zach Hobbs <zach-list AT firstwavedesign.com>
  • To: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Re: [SM-Spell-Submit] New Game spell: enemy-territory
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:02:10 -0500

We could create a "z-rej-games" or even a games codex? If it was a separate
codex then you could have them in separate sections: "games-arcade" etc. And
those not interested in games don't have to subscribe to that codex. Just an
idea..

-Zach Hobbs


On Sunday 15 June 2003 7:39 pm, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:11, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > Binaries go into z-rejected.
>
> Many apologies for the crosspost i want a lot of feed back on this
>
> ONce i have finished my current spree there will be atleast a dozen binary
> games, i had not planned on putting them all into z-rejected.
> Some other solution must be reached. I believe Games should become an
> exception due to the proprietary nature of many games.
> They should still have warnings and default to not installing
> (enemy-territory does this, like a z-rejected) but should be locatable
> within the Games section.
> ATM i am doing an inventory of games to see if it is worth moving them into
> a seperate grimoire or whether we need to add "services" like arcade and
> shooter so a gaze provides will list games by genre ? Games section now has
> 160+ spells and is not going to get any smaller, as well 17 of those are
> "libs" only used by games.
> Once my stocktake is done i will come up with a proposal.
>
> Lastly how do Bernardo and Asha'aman feel about maintaining a dozen games,
> some of which are over 350MB in download size and 800MB installed size ?
> I don't mind doing the work needed to spellarize these games for our users
> and i would like an open, honest (helpful) discussion about placements and
> such. Single line responses are often similar to "grunts" or "shrugs" and
> can be misread.
> Hamish
>
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