Hello,
I'm working with a few guys on a project for indie game developers. The two of them quit their jobs about a year ago to focus on building a marketplace for indie games that gives developers more freedom and opportunities to collaborate. We're now almost ready for an open beta, and we need both games and people to help us test the platform.

To that end, we thought we might hold a competition to find some noteworthy open source games. The goal of the competition would be to grant recognition to open source developers who have contributed to the community in a way you feel is important. Since our platform is based on indie game development, we're looking to celebrate the work of open source indies you love, granting their developers some recognition and allowing us to feature some favorite open source games from the community in our marketplace.

What do you think of this idea? Who are some people in the community with open source projects that you think deserve recognition?

Here's the blog with guidelines for the competition.
I'll be improving the site based on your feedback to make sure it's as awesome as possible, so feel free to drop your advice below. If you think the structure of the competition itself needs to be heavily modified I'll gladly take your suggestions. We'll be running more competitions in the future, so any input now would be great.

Thanks,
Samuel

PS - I don't know who is responsible for that trailer with the high pitched Queen raging in the background, but it's awesome.

What about create some short comic strips using game content, without any continous plot, but with a short story in each strip?
Something like that:

Just looking at this page and saw a screenshot of hedgewars. Nice.

In the post few weeks a got crushed under Ubuntu's boot. Latest release along with latest updates crippled my laptop as never before. Just wondering if you guys have the same bad experience as me. Note - preferably only people with laptops/netbooks should discuss this issues. I'm not looking for solutions of my problems here (for I'll wipe out Ubuntu in the next few days after I backup my data). Another opinion of mine (and not only as I see from many posts on the internet) - should Ubuntu have a longer release-cycle - not the usual 1 realease / 6 months but for example 1 release / 2 years? Omho the last release 10.4 is the worst release for me so far (playin' with Ubuntu since 6.06). Let's put it this way - I was brought back to the Stone Age.

WHy is thher ea pentagram and a eyecross in the game graphics!?!?!?!