Who wants to help me make foss decentralized steam (no games except tux racer)
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@sun I would help test it and maybe ask devs make katawa shojo
@sun there's luanti, a bunch of arena shooters and lots of visual novels you could distribute.
@snacks the real question is what do you name it
@sun possible names:
riffing off of steam:
steampunk
punk
anhydrous
dessicated
dry
autoclave
frost
riffing off of game:
play
spill (used to be synonymous with play)
game
ludo
riffing off of free software:
liberate
free
freedom
libre
source
just mashing some of the above words together:
freeplay (already a word, may be a good thing or bad)
gamepunk
librefrost
liberate ludo
sourcepunk
freepunk
dryspill (sounds more like a cleaning product?)
ludofree / freeludo (might already exist as a free Ludo (a board game) implementation)
ludo libre
regnumludorum (latin for "realm/kingdom of games")...
riffing off of steam:
steampunk
punk
anhydrous
dessicated
dry
autoclave
frost
riffing off of game:
play
spill (used to be synonymous with play)
game
ludo
riffing off of free software:
liberate
free
freedom
libre
source
just mashing some of the above words together:
freeplay (already a word, may be a good thing or bad)
gamepunk
librefrost
liberate ludo
sourcepunk
freepunk
dryspill (sounds more like a cleaning product?)
ludofree / freeludo (might already exist as a free Ludo (a board game) implementation)
ludo libre
regnumludorum (latin for "realm/kingdom of games")...
@HatkeshiatorTND I like Ludo gonna use that
@sun @HatkeshiatorTND "valorant" is not in the ludoers file. this incident will be reported
@sun godspeed, but you might be overloading the word: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludo"
also i just remembered i am a retard; ludo is a verb in latin, the noun form would be ludus, lusus, or iocus
also i just remembered i am a retard; ludo is a verb in latin, the noun form would be ludus, lusus, or iocus
@sun If what you are providing is the rich presence/friends/networking etc I've long thought it would be doable with p2p things like the dht. Very doable I think. Marketplace is harder to decentralize unless you're talking about like, p2p based file distribution and payments facilitated by e.g. crypto rather than cc's
@sun I guess the question is, what part of the problem are you trying to solve? The whole thing? a drop in replacement?
when daemons can code an app for you in an afternoon the real scarcity will be usable names that mean anything at all
there's already that meme that goes
>Working at any office is like “Ok we’re transitioning to Salarya, but payroll is still in Bullfrog—did you see my Noosecock post? Submit your timecard on Fireplayce then jizz me on Smackdog . Do NOT upload to Crackerz without Yammer approval
meanwhile a common noun/verb is going to refer to a dozen different apps on top of the dictionary definition
and it's only going to get worse
there's already that meme that goes
>Working at any office is like “Ok we’re transitioning to Salarya, but payroll is still in Bullfrog—did you see my Noosecock post? Submit your timecard on Fireplayce then jizz me on Smackdog . Do NOT upload to Crackerz without Yammer approval
meanwhile a common noun/verb is going to refer to a dozen different apps on top of the dictionary definition
and it's only going to get worse
@hakui i will not jizz you up on smackdog wtf
@lain ok well we won't be able to process your Glibcs on Maharaja then, just making sure you know that
@pwm tbh I want a platform that allows crypto games but enforces quality controls
@hakui let’s circle back once we have all asks locked in
@sun You're going to probably wind up just like steam, make a marketplace, make some games for yourself (high quality) and police it. You're probably not going to "decentralize" QC.
@pwm tbh I have a lot of goals and many of them are in conflict with one another. Add to this no body wants a crypto platform except grifters and naive idiots
@sun I think you'll need to pilot it with high-quality first-party games to showcase what's possible, teebeeaych. Whether that's slots, or genshin impact or fifa but spectators can bet on it eg. etc if you just build infra, it's not going anywhere. If you build a product that uses the infra you made then it's still a gamble but not a certainty that it will be disregarded, like building a railroad without trains.
@pwm if we did this we release first party games that don’t suck
@pwm reality: this is never seeing even a poc
@sun it would be a big undertaking.
@pwm please god give me the chance to build crypto steam that doesn’t suck
@sun let me know when you're hiring :^)
@lain ok i'll bungee you on rhodesia
@sun Not within but not without my wheelhouse either.
Man enough, sure.
Man enough, sure.
@pwm basically if you’re making a crypto game shithole you need super good sandboxing
@sun So you're planning on using the browser to sandbox them away from the system? You'll be in luck for like, anything written in C that can transpile but does for example, godot or anything have a webasm target?
@pwm both unity and godot I believe have browser targeting
@pwm this is still
Basically a niche system you’ll never get a aaa game on it
Basically a niche system you’ll never get a aaa game on it
@sun AAA isn't your market. More like souped up facebook/newgrounds type shit. Your target is basically candy crush and genshin impact players so I don't think that's a worry. if you could get pygame (I'm assuming what every visual novel is written in) running on it you'd have six kajillion weaboo dollars pouring in every 30 seconds.
Gamblers, coomers, people not trying to "game" really.
Gamblers, coomers, people not trying to "game" really.
@sun I guess I'm saying you're trying to use the game as a medium for something else, people who have extrinsic motivations to the thing itself,. even if it's "good" per se
@sun I mean it definitely sounds plausibly achievable. Would take capital, investors, all that crap.
@sun @HatkeshiatorTND dont use just Ludo it already is giga overused, transform the word somehow
@lebronjames75 @sun gnudo
@sun I can complain about things without providing any meaningful input
@sun @HatkeshiatorTND
LibreAutoclave seems to have the right degree of autism for a true opensource project name
LibreAutoclave seems to have the right degree of autism for a true opensource project name