Fwd: Re: LGA and Linux Game Development Center

[Christian Reiniger <warewolf@mayn.de>]

Ok, this is the response I got from the LGA. They are willing to team up
with us and host the LGDC on linuxgames.org
Please note also the part on the description of Loki Entertainment (Dan,
why didn't you tell us about this?) :)

Cu
	Christian

PS: I don't know if Ryan is already subscribed to this list. I'll mail him
about subscribing ASAP though.

----------  Mail forwarded (Author is Ryan Stultz)...  ----------
Subject: Re: LGA and Linux Game Development Center
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 23:30:04 -0500
From: "Ryan Stultz" <arc@dragon-isle.com>


Okay, lets talk.

I looked around at your site, and your logs. Interesting. The LGA started as
my pet project, but now I'm running it for lack of anyone else. the reason I
say this is that because of it, I teamed up with another guy, and we now
have formed Loki Entertainment Software, with the right to port several top
games (from Activision and WestWood) to Linux, all distribution rights. So
Loki is sponsoring linuxgames.org. I am still running it (with not enough
time to properly do it) because no one else can.

We'd be very interested in teaming up with you.

We're willing ot fold the LGA into the Linux Game Development Project. The
combined project could be located at linuxgames.org (hosted by Loki) since
the domain is already setup.

One of the things that the LGA was originally created for was not just to
help people port games, and to help gamers find games, but also to help
create a linux gaming awareness (hence the Linux Gaming Awareness Project).
So if we team up, the project would need to still try and aim at creating an
awareness, long term. This can be things like getting magazines to write
articles... arranging for benchmarks to be published about how much better
key games are on Linux, etc.

If this sounds okay, or you have any other options, let me know.

Ryan Stultz


-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Reiniger <warewolf@mayn.de>
To: arc@dragon-isle.com <arc@dragon-isle.com>
Date: Saturday, October 10, 1998 7:51 PM
Subject: LGA and Linux Game Development Center


>Hi,
>
>I'm a Linux Game SDK developer, currently working with the majority of the
>other people involved in Linux game development to create a comprehensive
>site for people interested in Linux Game Development.
>
>As our plans are to make that site for Linux Game Development in general,
>it will also include the goals of LGA. As it is wasteful to compete (even
>in a friendly way) against each other and as one big site covering all
>aspects of Linux Game Development will most likely have a greater impact
>than many small sites, we invite you to team up with us.
>
>We will release an announcement (draft attached below) for out site soon (I
>think within one week from now). Please have a look at it, as it will give
>you a pretty good impression about what we are doing. If you are
>interested, please have a look at summaries of the IRC meetings that led
>to the idea of building our site (they're on
>http://sunsite.auc.dk/penguinplay/irc-meetings/) and/or - even better -
>subscribe to our mailing list (write an empty mail to
>linuxgames-subscribe@sunsite.auc.dk).
>
>I'm sorry if all this comes very suddenly, but we just got note about your
>site yesterday, in the middle of busy preparations for the announcement ;)
>
>Cu
> Christian
>
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