In the Fedora DEI meeting held on 26th June, we talked about our regular social hours we usually have, where we can just hang out and play games together.
We’re looking for Volunteers to help with this (someone to own the fun, a Chief Organizer of Fedora Fun (yes, that’s the title )) to lead on this. If you love games, Fedora friends, and fun chaos, this might be your moment. You might pass it to the next person next when you’re not around.
We had proposed Games mentioned before:
Among Us
Online board games
Anything screen-sharable and friendly can do.
We’re thinking short sessions (1 hour), with voice/video. Could be weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly – you decide!
Drop your suggestions and any other fun thing we can do, vote on your faves, or volunteer as Chief Organizer of Fedora Fun!
@lochipi Want to put together a social hour meeting poll with rallly.co next week, and we can vote for the best time to hang out for a social gaming/activity hour?
Since Luanti is packaged in Fedora Linux and we have the cool server that @bookwar and others have already put time into, I would be down for some mining and crafting
I am open to what others want to do. I can provide a Google Meet or BigBlueButton room the social hour.
I’m also interested in Wargus (Warcraft 2; real-time strategy/RTS like AoE2). I played Warcraft 3 mainly, but I’m interested to see what I can come up with on 2 in multiplayer
DevilutionX could be good too! (Diablo 1) I’m thinking a bunch of us proceed down floors, collectively stop progress at the end of social, and pick back up the next one. I haven’t played Diablo with more than 2 players before and I’m curious how things scale with more people! I think there’s different game modes too so maybe it could be a different experience every social.
Both games are open-source, but would need assets from proprietary files (you need a copy of the respective games; GOG sells both, and the old versions are internet archived).
If it’s not limited to open-source, I can think of way more ideas for gaming on Fedora and social! I’m into UT99 and UT2K4, Halo 1/CE, there’s a popular Soldiers of Frontiers? old game I’d like to get back into; I’m into older games that’d run well on Linux on low-end, and like the idea of old-school hosting.
I had a WoW server, Xonotic, Minetest, Mumble, forums, and websites with custom systemd scripts hosted on Fedora Server years ago.
I ended up doing a camera setup that allowed my friends to play a remote game of “Jaws: the board game” which is asymmetric coop game, the only limitation is I had to be the shark.
“Trogdor the board game” might also be camera friendly since its essentially a full coop game and you can play open handed.
“Hues and Cues” would be…fascinating to try to play remotely as the differing hardware color curves would add more chaos for everyone..which is perfectly inline with the game concept.
I do want to highlight that we already have alternating times for Fedora Social Hours each week. I’m not opposed to adding one-off times to hang out or additional times, but I would like to keep this calendar of times since it’s been working for years at this point.
Also, +1 on Luanti. Playing on the Fedora server has been a hoot! Last social hour I was on the server for a bit while chatting with folks in the call, so I can see the opportunity for overlap, though we don’t need to lock them together of course.
)) to lead on this. If you love games, Fedora friends, and fun chaos, this might be your moment. You might pass it to the next person next when you’re not around.
