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Worklist for [[Games/GameDataPackager|Game-Data-Packager]]

This is arranged in an approximate difficulty order: items nearest the top are the easiest ones. Please feel free to open discussions about this on the debian-devel-games list.

=== play the games ===

 * just play the games, or let your 'Q.A. team' (=children/friends) do it, notice what doesn't work as expected and file bugs against GDP or the various game engines

=== advertise Game-Data-Packager ===

 * translate G-D-P homepage in your language. Please, don't translate '''this''' page.
 * explain the advantages listed there to your own little community
 * keep-up-to date the list of games at GOG.com & Steam. Make the individual game description something more interresting that ''"works with ScummVM"''.

=== draw or locate some DFSG-compliant icons ===

 * the package generated by GDP that provides .desktop files also needs icons, e.g.: wads for doom-like engines, ScummVM games
 * the single-game engines, like Tyrian, ROTT doesn't need extra icons

=== adding new games ===

 * have a look at [[https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/game-data-packager/blob/master/doc/adding_a_game.mdwn|adding_a_game.mdwn]] & the existing .yaml files to see how it works
 * please start with the English version for consistency
 * {{{game-data-packager make-template}}} will automate a lot of work; it can also directly process ''setup_...exe'' files provided by GOG.com
 * each individual requested game should have it's own bug Nr, with attributes wishlist & newcomer. Adding a new game is quite trivial, as long as no changes are needed to the python module.

=== adding demo versions to existing game ===

 * check first that the demo actually work with the engine !
 * check that the demo is not just a dumb "non-interactive" slideshow, but at least provides some of the full game functionality
 * the demo will likely share similar file names, you must rename the files in  size_and_md5 appropriately: ''make && make check'' will tell you which files were defined twice with different size/md5.
 * use install_as: instructions in files: dict for all rename files

=== adding translations to existing game ===

 * like for the demos, you'll have to check one-by-one that files got dubbed or not
 * all languages are welcome, not only the ones that some online seller found interesting to sell

=== QA ===

 * add annotations to the python code and try to make '''mypy''' happy
 * add a testsuite that builds everything available
 * check for regressions

=== Add a nice GUI ===

 * should likely uses Python-GI, as already used by the [[Games/MasterLevelsForDoomII|Master Levels for Doom II]] launcher provided by GDP
 * find a way to integrate seamlessly in populare graphical package mananager like Muon (KDE) or Synaptic (Gnome)

=== Hurt me plenty ===
   
 * reverse engineer patch.exe & patch.rtp (RTPatch by Pocket Soft)
 * reverse engineer Wise installer used by RTCW (several bits of code are floating around the web, some in Pascal)
 * port G-D-P to some other distribution

== External links ==

 * [[http://bugs.debian.org/game-data-packager|bts]]
 * [[http://packages.qa.debian.org/game-data-packager|pts]]
 * [[https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/game-data-packager|git repository]]
 * [[http://scummvm.org/demos/|trove of Scummvm demos]]
 * [[https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/game-data-packager/tree/master/data|list of all supported games]]
 * [[https://steamcommunity.com/groups/debian_gdp#curation|list of games sold by Steam]]