Who’s who?

Interviews :

  • 2nd interview November 23, 2012, on the site LinuxFr (“Le Bottin des jeux linux : entretien avec le créateur du site”). Interview conducted by the Lanpower association, main contributor of the site jeuxlibres.net. 2nd publication of this interview on December 5th, 2012 on the JeuxLinux site. 3rd publication on the Lanpower association website
  • 1rst interview on July 20, 2008, on the JeuxLinux site.

Some articles published about “Le Bottin des jeux linux”:

  • November 2013, on the n°80 (November / December 2013, Page 5) of the “LINUX Pratique” magazine :

A nice fork of our site :

 

The Linux Games Book Team :

Active writers and testers :

  • Serge Le Tyrant, aka goupildb (initiator of the project) :

born in late 1965 in Brittany, France, computer enthusiast for a good bunch of years, I approached the subject with a Philips videopac with 99 instructions in hexadecimal and then I went to ZX81 (a great little thing at an unbeatable price at the time) and I finaly went to the PC, which I never left. After having hacked in BASIC language like everyone else at this time, I wrote some Z80 assembler routines and long listings of 8086/8088 codes (window graphics manager – on my Hercules card, with graphic mode management of a font – that of the Turbo Pascal, never completed but functional) on my first PC XT (in 1986), then I flew (without deepening) Pascal and C. Today I don’t write anymore (but I always make mistakes spelling).

My experience with operating systems was under DOS, then under Windows, eventually moving to GNU/Linux in 2003 (a short stint on Mandrake, a long one on Debian, and now on Manjaro – which Louis introduced me to) that fits my expectations, and that I will not trade for anything in the world (not even for 2 barrels of washing powder).

  • Louis Le Tyrant, aka Arkonanfr (the largest contributor of the Linux Games Book) :

born in May 2002 near Cherbourg, Normandy, passionate about video games, he tested a good part (30%?) of the games of The Linux Games Book. He has already contributed to writing a few dozen tests and provided many tips.
Young, always in a good mood and a good gamer.
Mr. Louis is a less active contributor today. After a stint on the dark side (translate: Windows) – originally so as not to be ignorant of what’s still predominantly used in the working world, then because he had a taste for blockbusters – he ended up back on Linux. He’s even a fervent advocate of it (much more so than I am), both at work (he lives in Lyon and works in computer networks) and in the community (installing Linux in his mother’s and grandfather’s homes, and in anyone else’s who wants it).

He opened his Youtube channel in April 2016 on which he talked about … games :), with Let’s Play on PC games he likes. For now, he’s disabled his videos. To be continued. To give him a little publicity, I too had created my Youtube channel (but without videos) with a subscription to his site :)

 

Inactive writers and testers:

  • François Serreau :

He worked on an old version of the site.

  • Syl :

Corrector of a large number of entries during a few weeks, it’s been a long time since he came to correct our bugs. He also added some entries.

  • Jonas ROCKENBAUER :

We owe him the addition / modification of a dozen entries.

We owe him interviews that made us better known (and a lot of encouragement for me).

  • Other punctual contributors :

They are listed in the Linux Games Book

 

You too can contribute if you wish :

We have made The Linux Games Book even more free (it is now under CC-BY license).

The offer in Linux games is now plethoric and a bilingual (French / English) catalog of Linux games is a useful tool for all.
It can be a promotional tool for the free, for some developers, which does not limit itself to the flagship titles.

If the tool (a Tellico file) is not to everyone’s taste, this format proved its effectiveness for the speed of creation of the entries and its ergonomics, and there are gateways for the creation of HTML pages.
You can contribute by creating new entries or sending us information, but you can also help by contributing with your technical skills.
Other tools could also be developed to further improve the situation: an XML export file to improve the appearance of HTML pages extracted from Tellico, a gateway allowing other input formats for refractories to Tellico, a new theme for this site, …

If you have ideas, wishes (but not necessarily) and / or if you have some time and the will to make things progress (especially), do not hesitate to contact us.