The linked article is lean on details. Is this for "educational" games? Or regular games? Or for educational software that is not games?

I totally do not get what a teacher would use Steam int he classroom for. Anyone have any ideas? I've been out of school for a long time, so maybe I'm just missing something.

Thanks to you and everyone else for your kind (and even the not-so-kind) words. Lots of people are playing the game today. I've been a Slashdot reader since 1999, so I guess I should not be surprised the affect even a link in the comments can have on traffic.

The racing skeleton level is one of my favorites. :)

And that's bad, why?

I don't believe the point of The Liberated Pixel Cup is to come out with the open source Diablo III or Ghost Recon.

Casual games seem to be the focus of the topic at hand....

It is somewhat frustrating. But, as a programmer, I'm so happy to have a central open art repository, I'll deal with it. :)

For the love of it YES.

I just finished my first HTML5 game. Runestone Defense. I already posted it here, so I won't spam the link again. But I wrote it for the love of it. I won't make any money. If I wanted to make money I'd have made a flash game and gone for sponsorship, and Kongregate.com and all of that.

I spend 4 weeks making that game, several hours a day, after work. Everyone has a hobby. Some people make model trains. Some people drink. I make games (and drink). I also spend hours and hours a week playing bass in a rock band. I don't make any money off that, either.

I'm a programmer. I love games. I just finished my first HTML5 game: http://magigames.org/runestone_defense.html I used some OpenGameArt.org art in there, even.

I am SO looking forward to entering this contest as a programmer. Solo - HTML5. Oh yeah.

I wonder about the library rules. I used Jawsjs http://jawsjs.com/ in my last game, and it is open source, but I was looking at ImpactJS, (NOT open source) for my next game.

Anyway, more open art for people like me to use = good stuff in my book. Look for my entry when the programming phase opens.

That is the exact situation. An an amateur audio engineer, Pro Tools is my tool of choice. I'd much rather have the files be in Pro Tools format than any of the open source audio tools' format.

Also, to compare with the Photoshop - Gimp analogy, Pro Tools is cheaper than Photoshop. $699 full box, $295 full box Student Version (same as regular). You no longer need to use Digi hardware - it works with any audio interface these days.

The student version can be found on Ebay, no student needed. :)

Judging from the average hashrate, there are more than 5 of us. :)

I second this, and add the reason that stuff (sound, video) actually works with zero user effort on Mac.

Plus another reason: can't live without software like Photoshop, Pro Tools and Final Cut Pro.

All that AND I get the unix environment I know and love.

Actually, it's a copyright abuse story. The bitcoin part is just incidental.

Loose money *is* easy to lose.

^^ what he said.

If you don't mind, I'm going to use that response in the future.

Please explain to me how Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme. Oh, you can't, because you have not really thought about it, you are just parroting what others have said.

People are on it: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22426.0

Please don't start mining Bitcoin. You will not turn a profit. It's hard work. It's no fun. Don't do it.

(the difficulty is high enough, we don't need another influx of miners)