Featured Apps for Maverick

[Sense Hofstede]

On 8 September 2010 19:22, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:07:19PM +0200, Sense Hofstede wrote:
>> I'm in favour of swapping applications, but if a game is really good
>> it should stay. The best should stay, lesser known games could be
>> swapped.
>
> "Good" is a fairly subjective measure with games.  ;-)
> (Is nethack "good"?)
>
> Games will still be available even if not in the featured applications
> list, so it's just an issue of visibility.
>
> I'd say, let all the games cycle in and out.  If it really is a good
> game, people will find out about it in ways other than just Featured
> Apps, and if it is truly a great game, it'll make it back on the list
> soon.  Give room for new games, since part of the fun here is
> discovering new games.
>
> Bryce
>
With good games I meant games that are of great quality. Something
that even people who don't like the genre can agree on that it is a
good game. Well written, with high-quality artwork, etc.
But of course, a large part of this is subjective and a large part of
the label 'good' is made up of what the current communis opinis thinks
is good. You've got a point here, but I do think we can distinguish at
least a little bit in quality.

There is something to say for this, we should indeed give as many
games as possible an opportunity to present themselves. However, I do
think that -- in order to make sure the games on offer look good
enough -- we should always include a few games we've agreed to
consider of a very high quality.
We want to show every single user -- whatever release may be the
user's first Ubuntu -- the best of the best the Linux gaming community
has to offer. It could be even damaging to the image of gaming on
Linux if we'd exclude the high-quality games from the featured
applications list because they've got their six months of fame, to
replace them with games that are most certainly not bad, but also
don't meet the level of the high-quality games.

Regards,
-- 
Sense Hofstede
http://sensehofstede.nl/