Gifts for Gamers: Some End-of-Year Recommendations, Part 2
More games for Linux and open source - a large choice for every taste. Strategy, chess, and more.To be continued.
Strategy
Warzone 2100
GPL, activated 3D graphics, http://wz2100.net
Originally released 1999 as a commercial real-time strategy game from Edios Interactive, Warzone has been further developed by a horde of volunteers under the GNU license. Unlike its competitors in the same genre, Warzone 2100 allows for individual unit design with varied unit characteristics and tactics.
Originally Warzone 2100 was a commercial strategy game.
LordsAWar
Free, 2D graphics, http://www.nongnu.org/lordsawar
The turn-based strategy game is still in its early development stages. The object is to create armies in cities to conquer neighboring cities and send heros on quests for treasure.
Landscapes to discover in LordsAWar
LGeneral
Free, 2D graphics, http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LGeneral
Friends of the turn-based strategy game Panzer General would feel at home with the LGeneral clone. As general, you guide your troups across hexagonal battlefields.
MegaMek
GPL, 2D graphics, http://megamek.sourceforge.net
Likewise with a beehive playing field, MegaMek is an unofficial version of the BattleTech board game, with overdimensioned robots pulled into battle.
Massive robots moved in hexagonal fields are what make the MegaMek multi-player game.
Lux
Commercial, http://sillysoft.net
The strategy game is loosely based on the Risk board game, with some extensions. Taking over the world involves aligning your troops across 700 maps, including phantasy worlds
Lux is reminiscent of the Risk board game.
NAEV
GPL v3, activated 3D graphics, http://code.google.com/p/naev
Unlike Elite, this space trading and combat game has a bird's-eye view. The object is still to conquer large galaxies.
In NAEV, space trading is from a far-reaching perspective.
Privateer: Ascii Sector
Free, 2D graphics, http://www.asciisector.net
The game reduces the concept popular in Elite and Privateer to its graphic minimum. The space conquering simulation works exclusively with ASCII characters, with a considerable retro effect.
The graphics in Ascii Sector consist of ASCII and special characters.
Mechanical Tower
Free, activated 3D graphics, http://www.tdb.fi/mechtower.shtml
Robots gone haywire storm a tower and you must set traps to destroy them before they do the same to you.
BattleDuel
Free, 2D graphics, http://terstiege.de/battleduel
In a mountainous landscape, opponents try to out each other with fixed cannons. They take turns firing, but need to reckon with wind and ballistics.
BattleDuel is a new version of an old classic for the Commodore Amiga.
Tiffanys
GPL, 2D graphics, http://tiffanys.sourceforge.net
A simple chess game with multiple game modes.
The Tiffanys chess game has an opening database.
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http://lin-app.com/category/games
There are promising titles in development so linux games will come and then users will come and then big game companies will start to care for linux few percents more.
- Alex
still far away
HUH?? you call this a gift??
these are not games for gamers..
if you saw a playstation 3/xbox 360/new windows games than you should know these are not real games..
there are almost no games for linux.
some games works with wine but....
windows is still a must if you want games now dont put these games and say linux has games for gamers..
i didnt even read the post.. but i hate to see these posts with no real games and say games for linux..
who needs these games?????
do you really play them?
Gifts for Gamers
Here's another gift for you.
Fortmactux released a new live dvd games version (i.e. no install required).
It contains FlightGear1.9.0 , Alice3D , DukeNukem3D, etc.
Download from ibiblio linux distros (fortmactux) at
http://distro.ibiblio.org/p...inux/distributions/fortmactux/
Have Fun.
David Toms (fortmactux)