ggz(7)

🌈 ggz(7) — GGZ Gaming Zone 🎮

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to talk about ggz(7) — that's the manual page for The GGZ Gaming Zone — and it's lowkey iconic. ✨

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💖 NAME 💖

ggz — The GGZ Gaming Zone. that's it, that's the name, periodt. 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so. The GGZ Gaming Zone is a standards-conforming free online gaming infrastructure — and when I say infrastructure I mean it literally hands you a whole pile of applications and games for anyone who likes to play on the internet or on local networks. 🎀

GGZ — that's how the (recursive) acronym is called — is available for many computer systems. this doc right here is focused on the installations on Linux, BSD and Unix, iykyk. on those systems, GGZ-powered games often ship with the KDE and GNOME games packages, and most distributors also include all the components as released by the GGZ project. slay. 💅

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🎮 APPLICATIONS 🎮

GGZ is available on several platforms, and the way there's a multitude of programs for the user… and even more that operate on the system level or get used by developers and administrators. 😭

Users will most likely want to connect to a GGZ server on the internet — like ggz://live.ggzgamingzone.org — to play games against other people. that's the whole vibe. and the core clients are what you use to do that task. 🫶

Functional clients exist in the form of:

• kggz — for the K Desktop Environment (KDE)
• ggz-gtk — for GNOME or XFCE users
• ggz-txt — for people who prefer command-line applications

and bestie, of course the clients are not bound to a specific desktop — but the choices above will likely be influenced by the level of integration. 👀 in particular, the GNOME client is often found embedded in GGZ-enabled games of the GNOME project. not me getting emotionally attached to an embedded client.

a client under development is the SDL-based víbora. 🦋 furthermore, a Java-based client and applet exists as well.

and here's the cute part: running ggz will automatically select a suitable core client depending on the desktop environment. main character energy, honestly. ✨

Special clients exist in the form of:

• ggzap — a quick-launcher for the KDE panel
• ggz-wrapper — used for launching GGZ games from the command line and instant messenger applications

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🕹️ GAMES 🕹️

Games are usually launched by the GGZ server, with corresponding game clients running on the user's desktop. 🍓

Plenty of games are available for GGZ — most of them coming from the GGZ project itself, but several independent game projects do now provide GGZ support too. the range is giving eclectic. 💜

Game clients are implemented using multiple toolkits, some of which stem from certain desktop environments. however — and this is the important bit — all games work equally well under all desktops. it's just a matter of personal choice which of them are to be installed. having all of them is just fine. no gatekeeping here. 🌸

While some GGZ game clients are suited for online gaming only, others also run locally like normal games happen to do. those will be found in the desktop's application menu. 🔥

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📁 FILES 📁

the following layout can vary from site to site, depending on the completeness of a GGZ installation and the operating system distribution in use. it adheres to the File Hierarchy Standard (FHS) as much as possible. 💫

• /usr/bin — GGZ applications, tools, and the games which provide single player mode.
• /usr/lib/ggz(d) — GGZ game clients and servers.
• /usr/share/ggz(d) — Data files for game clients and servers.
• /etc/ggz.modules — Game module registry for game clients.
• /etc/ggzd — Configuration for the GGZ server, including rooms and game types.

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📜 CONFORMING TO 📜

GGZ is out here conforming to a whole syllabus, and honestly? academic weapon. 🎓

• GGZ Design Document, available at http://www.ggzgamingzone.org/docs/design/
• GGZ Main Client-Server Protocol Reference, available at http://www.ggzgamingzone.org/docs/design/mainspec/
• GGZ Client-Client Protocol Reference, available at http://www.ggzgamingzone.org/docs/design/clientspec/
• GGZ Server-Server Protocol Reference, available at http://www.ggzgamingzone.org/docs/design/serverspec/
• GGZ URI specification
• Freedesktop.org specifications for desktop integration of games and applications, more information at http://www.freedesktop.org/
• File Hierarchy Standard for unix-derived operating systems, at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

The GGZ Development Team <ggz-dev@mail.ggzgamingzone.org> — legends, fr fr. 💖

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

kggz(6), ggz-gtk(6), ggz-txt(6), ggz-java(6) — go read those next, bestie, the lore goes deep. 🌈

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and that's the whole page!! brought to you by The GGZ Development Team, version 0.0.14+, dated like the manual page ggz(7) it is. mwah, stay hydrated, go play some games. 💅🎀🦋✨