What I would like to see is a community forum. Almost every editor has one and see how it makes a vibrant, dynamic community! For instance, take egosoft forums (X2 and X3). That would also help find partners to play on PenguinPlay. Or for instance, provide more updates (such as an updater for X3 helping install XTM 0.7.5).

Thanks.

Application(s) Vendor

Variety of games Linux Game Publishing

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-10.04-for-software-vendors

I’d also like to see a bit more frequent updates from LGP, perhaps one post per month is not unreasonable.

Keep on doing the great job you do.

I agree with Andreas. I want to see more updates about what’s happening. I want to know which games are in development, I want to know when upcoming games are expected to be released. That’s how LGP makes me happy. I also got flashbacks to Loki. Such silence isn’t good. It’s better to keep your community up-to-date about what’s going on.

Why shouldn’t you just tell which games are in development? Why wait so long before making an announcement? Why doesn’t LGP say a single word. At least tell us what kind of games are in development (FPS, RTS, RPG, etc.) and which setting (a well-known war, a fictive war, fantasy setting, etc.) or every week a very small piece of a screenshot, so people can speculate for months about from which game the screenshot is. People are puzzling for months to paste those parts together to get to know to which game the screenshot belongs. After two or three monts all of those little images form a cathedral and someone regognizes this cathedral from a RTS-game he played on Windows, so he knows which game LGP has in development.

That’s a nice way to announce your games. It keeps the community busy and keeps them happy. Ans it’s also a free puzzle game from LGP which every visitor of LGP’s website can play.

This should help you define your “community” and as a result, the type of community activity required to keep users interested.

- Gilboa

I almost given up on LGP.
As for the question at hand, IMHO open betas (coupled with a continuous media noise @Phoronix and happypenguin) will generate far more interest (and revenue?) compared contests and free games. (Plus, it may draw people to wait for the beta to end instead of buying the Windows title and using wine)

You could combine the two (Limited number of free beta test passes), with the top participants getting free/discounts/etc.

- Gilboa

And yeah, all this silence got me worried as well, but …well.. if like according to Eskild everything is fine, then I’m just looking forward to all those new releases. :)