[kwlug-disc] another presentation idea

[Andrew Sullivan Cant]

FYI to anyone who was following this thread, Charles has been scheduled 
to do an Inkscape tutorial in December.

That is a tool I always keep meaning to learn, so I am looking forward 
to it.

Andrew


On 2023-10-15 20:07, Andrew Sullivan Cant wrote:
> This all sounds interesting to me!
> 
> Even if the entirely tool chain is not FLOSS, hearing about what parts 
> are and what might be missing from the whole chain being FLOSS would be 
> really interesting.
> 
> If you, or someone else, also wanted to do a later talk about Godot, 
> that would also fit together nicely.
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> On 2023-10-10 19:18, Charles M wrote:
>> Parts of GameMaker have been open sourced, but not the engine itself.
>> Godot is the goto for most developers who develop FLOSS games, though
>> there is a big list of engines and frameworks on wikipedia that are
>> FLOSS. Gamemaker is one of the simplest engines to learn, but lacks 3D
>> features, and isn't FLOSS. There's a free as in beer version, but it
>> only lets you code for Opera's GX.games site. You can code full games,
>> you just cannot export them without paying Opera their various subs.
>> Still, the latest version is kind of nice as the "Ubuntu" export is to
>> an AppImage.
>>
>> Godot is probably the way to go for most people who want to develop 2D
>> or 3D games under Linux, but I feel like it has a bit more of a
>> learning curve. Still, it wasn't just GameMaker. When Andrew and I
>> emailed I mentioned Inkscape, GIMP, Aseprite, and Audacity were a part
>> of the process too.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Charles
>>
>> On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 at 18:53, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc
>> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrew mentioned this during the meeting, but we were not sure that
>>> GameMaker was Free/Open Source. It looks like it is not? People were
>>> talking about Godot, but that is different?
>>>
>>> - Paul
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 04:03:19PM -0400, Charles M wrote:
>>>> I mentioned to Andrew that I'd be willing to do a brief presentation
>>>> on GameMaker Studio, which now has a beta client for Linux. For the
>>>> past month and a bit I've been making a few small games for Linux
>>>> using GameMaker, Inkscape, GIMP, Asprite and Audacity. Most recently
>>>> I've been working on redoing Shamus, the 1982 game published by
>>>> Synapse software.
>>>>
>>>> If there's interest, I'm happy to do a 1/2 session talking about all 
>>>> the tools.
>>>>
>>>> Charles
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 at 13:39, Mikalai Birukou <mb at 3nsoft.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2023-10-09 14:44, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 11:15:25PM -0400, Steve Izma wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've been been corresponding with Erez Zukerman, who owns ZSA,
>>>>>>> the producer of keyboards, e.g.: <https://www.zsa.io/moonlander>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> He lives in New Hamberg, so I asked him if I could get a chance
>>>>>>> to look at the keyboards (non-virtually). I told him that KWLUG
>>>>>>> people often talk about keyboards and would probably be
>>>>>>> interested in more info about them. He offered to come to a
>>>>>>> meeting to demonstrate them. Since we'll probably be back to
>>>>>>> in-person meetings sometime this fall, do you think this would be
>>>>>>> appropriate for one of those meetings?
>>>>>> Do we want to think about booking Erez in?
>>>>>> We would need some work to figure out how to make the visual demo 
>>>>>> work
>>>>>> virtually, but I think this is doable.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Haven't we already seen in action use of OBS, that
>>>>>
>>>>> - takes in different inputs,
>>>>>
>>>>> - shows them in a window
>>>>>
>>>>> - that has been shared into BBB presentation
>>>>>
>>>>> - with bonus of having prepared scenes
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like a solution. And someone has a direct experience 😉, if I
>>>>> recall correctly.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you interested in presenting your Framework laptop?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Paul
>>>>>>
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>>>> Charles
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