Blackwell: Multiple games in one pack

[Tea23]

Hey let's use the issue tracker.

The Blackwell pack is comprised of multiple games in a single installer, causing what could be a logistical nightmare. It's possible that some users will want to install all the games at once, others might only want one or two, leading to the first question: Do we facilitate this by having 4 separate packages or just stick to our guns and have one?

If we go for one package, how would the launcher work? Would it be a single launcher with some flags allowing the user to select their game? Would it be four separate launchers? Would a single launcher have a simple GUI or $1 and $2 calls? Both?

It's easy enough to facilitate the games in separate packages, but the extra padding created by this could skew search results and possibly be quite hard to maintain. But at the same time can we allow ourselves to take choice away from the user in which games they install?

I suppose what this actually forces us to consider is: Are we creating packages for games or products? If the former then we should be creating individual packages for each game, the latter then the user will have to put up with a single package.

Personally I am leaning towards a singular package even without the ethical argument. The four games are connected and combined, weigh in a smaller size than Resonance, making little logistical difference to the user.

I'm reluctant to start work on the Blackwell package(s) until we can reach a conclusion on exactly how to do it. For now, the Resonance package shows us how AGS packages can be done (on a related note, I've put in this issue on the AGS tracker so we can lose unionfs on this one). I'd like to get Gemini Rue done but I don't have the GOG version right now (although it should be fairly cookie-cutter).

[Xyem]

Easier to go from single package to multi-packages and that's how all the other -base packages are done (they install the "product") too. At the very least, we should start package-per-product and see if there is any demand for separate ones.