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FooBilliard

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:26:59 +0000

FooBilliard is a free and open source 3D pool game for Linux. Choose from a range of game play and difficulty levels in this superb version of a classic real world game.

Tux Paint

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:51:57 +0000

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, key stages 1 and 2). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.

Tux Paint runs on a variety of platforms, including all versions of Windows (including Tablet PC), Mac OS X 10.3 and up, Linux, BeOS and Haiku, FreeBSD and NetBSD. It works well on older, slower systems, as well as thin-clients such as LTSP, Citrix® and Windows Terminal Services. It even runs on some handheld computers!

ScummVM

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:27:28 +0000

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky and Broken Sword I & II; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.

Among the systems on which you can play those games are Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Dreamcast, PocketPC, PalmOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, OS/2, PSP, PS2, SymbianOS and many more…

Open Game Art

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:49:23 +0000

If you’ve ever browsed Free/Open Source game sites (such as The Linux Game Tome, you’ll notice that a fairly significant number of the games available suffer from what’s lovingly referred to as ‘programmer art’. There are, of course, some notable exceptions to this, but it’s clear that, for an open source game to produce good art, it has to become large and popular enough to attract artists.

Unfortunately, many fun and well-designed games never reach this point and are thus stuck with placeholder art, which ultimately detracts from their appeal and popularity. Furthermore, it’s not unheard of for open source projects to rip their placeholder art from commercial games, which is illegal and could conceivably result in a lawsuit.

The purpose of this site is to provide a solid (and hopefully ever-expanding) variety of high quality, freely licensed art, so that free/open source game developers can use it in their games.

Peces (Tangram game)

admin — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:48:27 +0000

PIECES is a program to play the traditional Tangram, game of Chinese origin. It consists on constructing shapes with some polygonal pieces. Traditionally the game has seven pieces, but there are also variations with 5,14 pieces and others.

The program PIECES allows you:

*To play the tangram in 18 different modalities.
*To create your own shapes.
*To elaborate more that 3000 shapes proposed by the program.
*To preserve your personal records.

Frozen Bubble

admin — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:16:06 +0000

Frozen Bubble is a superb open source rendition of the classic arcade title ‘Bust a Move’. This version features single and multiplayer modes as well as network multiplayer and level editor capabilities.

Secret Maryo Chronicles

admin — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:56:14 +0000

Secret Maryo Chronicles is an Open Source two-dimensional platform game with a style designed similar to classic sidescroller games.

It uses the platform independent library SDL and, since version 0.98, the OpenGL accelerated Graphics Renderer. The game is developed in C++.

Minimum Requirements
Processor: 500 MHz
Video Card: 64 MB OpenGL Compatible 3D Accelerated Graphics Card
256MB of RAM
800×600 Screen Resolution
16 Bit Color Display
Keyboard + Mouse

Recommended Requirements
Processor: 1 GHz
Video Card: 128 MB OpenGL Compatible 3D Accelerated Graphics Card
512MB of RAM
Sound Card
1024×768 Screen Resolution
32 Bit True Color Display
JoyPad

SuperTux

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:31:11 +0000

SuperTux is a classic 2D jump’n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original SuperMario games. The Milestone1 release of SuperTux features 9 enemies, 26 playable levels, software and OpenGL rendering modes, configurable joystick and keyboard input, new music and completly redone graphics.

Open Yahtzee

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:47:57 +0000

Open Yahtzee is an open-source version of the classic dice game Yahtzee. Open Yahtzee is built to be OS portable, that means you can run it on many kinds of different operating systems and platforms. The portability is mainly achieved via wxWidgets which also gives Open Yahtzee a native look on each platform.