not only don't I have any experience on how to share ratings and reviews between client, it doesn't interest me what others think about games, most creators lie and most critics care more about the graphics and sound than the story or game play. I am not making a web based app or a software center, just a way to manage your local games. I figured I can generate a script that gets run with gksudo that the Launcher calls and it can add PPA's Repository information and then use apt-get to install groups of games from the same sources (in case one is offline at any stage). The ability to actually install the games isn't made yet, all it does is works with existing games you have installed to your current system. It's NOT a software center, it's a Launcher, but instead of being a menu, or a Dock or any other method people use to start their games up, it gives you a screenshot and summary of categorized games. Last edited by GlennLChugg October 25th, 2011 at 11:09 PM. My daily personal forum is for ideas and development, but I will be stopping by here every day now too I am not copyrighting any of the designs or ideas from this project, so if you want to make a better one, I'd be happy to see that happen. *** I am making this tool for my self, my friends and family, but if anyone here shows an interest in this project I will be willing to share it publicly *** The interface will be themeable (once I complete it), allowing external resources to be placed into your Theme\ subfolder.īecause I am using RealStudio, it will be self contained and not require installation, just download and run. I may incorporate some global hotkeys to quit the running game at any time (like I have for the WINE project and under Windows). desktop comment) and by clicking the Title of the game, it can launch your browser to the games homepage.Īs your playing a game the Game Launcher will hide itself until you exit that game. It will use a Database of Descriptions (instead of the. It uses a Collection of screenshots, able to be downloaded from the Internet as it's running, or manually add your own in. I mean it's easy enough to see what a game is about by searching on google or visiting the software center, but I am more about seeing what you want to play and double clicking, or pressing Start, to play the thing. desktop files from the usual places on your Gnome based Distro and any other distro that uses the. So not only will you be able to browse the local games you have installed, It uses the. This will use an online Database of Games and their PPA/Repository information and packages required to install them. I have started a new project in Ubuntu using RealStudio, it's based on my Earlier 211 WINE games for Linux.
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