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Hi

I think we'd all agree that games are culture here.

There is a "free culture festival" that is being suggested around my town (Lyon, France). Free (as-in-speech) cinema, music, software. I thought it'd be nice to have something about free videogames.

I have a couple of ideas on how to do that, but I thought maybe I'd bring it to this forum's expertise in suggesting kickass features

How would you go promoting free games in a festival on free culture.

Julien

PS: I'm 90% sure that if we don't do something, there will be nothing about games there.

give them free porn with that game

I'm in.

A booth with CDs with a collection of free games. The CDs would be a database of best free games, and the games would be categorized by both tags and genre.

Example games included (and suggested tags):

Nethack, Adom, DoomRL, Dungeon Crawl (randomized, long)
Desktop Dungeons, Spelunky (randomized, very short)
Beneath a Steel Sky, 7 Days A Stranger (plot, short)

Example games listed, with download links included (installers not included because the games take lots of space, or need internet connection to be played, or are updated frequently)

The Ur-Quan Masters (plot, long, local multiplayer)
League of Legends (micropayments, online multiplayer)
Dwarf Fortress (long)


Also lots of games from these lists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fr ... ideo_games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... s_freeware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_op ... ideo_games

Thanks for all the references. I'll look into all that.

Maybe I can also make a sort of presentation on Overgrowth, as it is not only open source but crowd funded. It would definitely ring a bell with free-culture people.

I'd like to do a sort of eye-candy video montage from the available overgrowth footage. Can I get the original videos from somewhere?

If I can get a computer, I could have a playable spot. If I can get many, we can make a tremulous tournament!