Talk:Armagetron Advanced
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This article was nominated for deletion on 2007-01-25. The result of the discussion was keep. |
[edit] Scheduled for deletion?
Why is this page scheduled for deletion? Does it have to have links to sites that have reviewed the game?
As a matter of fact, Armagetron Advanced provides a 3d light cycle game that is quite unlike any other light cycle game. GLTron is just a rip of the movie, armagetron provides networked play and numerous game modes that are quite challenging. non-notable means nothing else comes close. I suspect foul play.
- Non-notable refers to no reliable secondary sources as a general rule. If this game is distributed solely via the web then WP:WEB is the guideline to be looking at. Join in on the AFD discussion page (there's a link in the box on top of the article). QuagmireDog 16:37, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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- How about Gentoo, Mandriva Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE (therefore Novell), et al? --70.244.120.143 03:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- Am I the only one who believes that the web-notability metric is somewhat retarded when it comes to online games? By the logic of "cd-distribution", massively successful projects like Second Life and Runescape aren't "notable" because they don't have solid media... and would the frequent mention of Second Life in mainstream software press (but online) like Slashdot make it similarly ineligible? At any rate, Armagetron is frequently mentioned in both the very-noteworthy Penny-Arcade, and the paper world of gaming magazines (for example, 1up.com included it in it's "101 free games" article which is included in various other publications). Really, it's silly that a forgotten failure of a game on a forgotten console like, say, China_Warrior is not even considered for deletion simply because it had the dubious honour of being published... while a modern, popular game with an active playerbase is not.
Heh, it's late, and apparently I missed that part of the discussion. I guess I should register here sometime... Anyway, I participated in the Afd discussion and didn't manage to identify myself when asked mostly because I only just now came back. Now feeling a little guilty for not identifying myself when asked, I'm Lucifer, one of the project admins, wrote the comment listing Linux distributions I've seen carry it. Sorry. --70.251.188.3 07:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] OpenBSD
The article mentioned OpenBSD; when was it first available for OpenBSD? John Vandenberg 20:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 0.2.8.2.1 is officially available for OpenBSD as of a few days ago thanks to belenus. The packages are being added to the download page as we speak. --Luke-Jr 23:01, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Ok; once the beta OpenBSD port is uploaded, a note in the history section would be appropriate.
- If it had of been in the official OpenBSD ports collection, that would help with WP:SOFT. Now that I look, it was added to freebsd ports on November 13, 2005. My guess is that FreeBSD ports collection is less restrictive than OpenBSD, so its inclusion there is less notable. John Vandenberg 02:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
