1.- XBoard is a very old chess interface, it's not very fancy, or flashy, but it has all the basic features of a modern chess program.
XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms, including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi (Japanese chess) and Makruk, in addition to many minor variants such as Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capablanca Chess.
It displays a chessboard on the screen, accepts moves made with the mouse, and loads and saves games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:
Chess engines that will run on your machine and play a game against you or help you analyze, such as GNU Chess, Crafty, or many others.
Chess servers on the Internet, where you can connect to play chess with people from all over the world, watch other users play, or just hang out and chat.
Correspondence chess played by electronic mail. The CMail program automates the tasks of parsing email from your opponent, playing his moves out on your board, and mailing your reply move after you've chosen it.
2.- 100 Best Free and High Quality Linux Games, Chapter 8.
Greedy Car Thieves is an action driving game that takes its cues from the classic top-down GTA games. Multiplayer action is the primary focus, allowing players to free roam around the city in a slew of game modes including Free For All, Bombmatch and Race. A map editor is also available.
Genre: Action, Driving, Third person
License: Proprietary/Closed Source
Cost: Free
Website: http://gct-game.net/
3.- Obsidian is an open source 3D virtual world for Linux and OpenGL.
Obsidian is an extensible virtual world system with a fullblown multiplayer client-server architecture.
It is NOT a VRML2 world system (there are fundamental computer graphics reasons why VRML worlds will always be slow), though there are plans to include VRML2 as a world data format.
Features include: Multiplayer Client-Server architecture, Editable worlds and textures, and projectile weapons.
Obsidian is now a parked project, and no further work will be done on it. Feel free to use this code and study the thinking behind it, but we do NOT advise using it as the basis for any virtual world projects you may have in mind.
Obsidian is an extensible virtual world system with a fullblown multiplayer client-server architecture. It is NOT a VRML2 world system (there are fundamental computer graphics reasons why VRML worlds will always be slow), though there are plans to include VRML2 as a world data format.
4.- 3D Chess, 3 dimensional Chess game for X11R6.
By default, Ubuntu comes with glChess, part of the GNOME game suite. It uses the venerable and solid GNUChess engine, but the 2D graphics, while functional, lack the flash common in modern computer chess games.
3 dimensional Chess game for X11R6. There are three boards, stacked vertically; 96 pieces of which most are the traditional chess pieces with just a couple of additions; 26 possible directions in which to move. The AI isn't wonderful, but provides a challenging enough game to all but the most highly skilled players.
3D Chess is an odd, yet interesting game. You have three boards upon which to play, a few new pieces, and no manual to tell me how the new pieces work!!! But this game looks quite cool though, a bit like chess in Star Trek. All it needs is a manual or a link to a website containing documentation. Also, there is no AI to handle this game, so you must have another person to play with. I also like the board names which are x, y, and z.
5.- 3D Chess, 3 dimensional Chess game for X11R6.
By default, Ubuntu comes with glChess, part of the GNOME game suite. It uses the venerable and solid GNUChess engine, but the 2D graphics, while functional, lack the flash common in modern computer chess games.
3 dimensional Chess game for X11R6. There are three boards, stacked vertically; 96 pieces of which most are the traditional chess pieces with just a couple of additions; 26 possible directions in which to move. The AI isn't wonderful, but provides a challenging enough game to all but the most highly skilled players.
3D Chess is an odd, yet interesting game. You have three boards upon which to play, a few new pieces, and no manual to tell me how the new pieces work!!! But this game looks quite cool though, a bit like chess in Star Trek. All it needs is a manual or a link to a website containing documentation. Also, there is no AI to handle this game, so you must have another person to play with. I also like the board names which are x, y, and z.
6.- World of Go is a physics based puzzle / construction game.
World of Goo is a physics-based puzzle game by 2D Boy, an independent game developer consisting of Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel, both former Electronic Arts employees, released for Linux, Android and WiiWare.
It was nominated for the Seumas McNally grand prize, Design Innovation Award, and Technical Excellence at the Independent Games Festival, and has gone on to win several other gaming awards since its release.
The game is built around the idea of creating large structures using balls of goo.The game is divided into five chapters, each containing several levels. Each level has its own graphic and musical theme, giving it unique atmosphere.
There is also a bonus meta-game called World of Goo Corporation, where the objective is to build the highest tower using goo balls which the player collected through the course of the game. Players from all over the world can compete, as the height of the tower and number of goo balls used are being constantly uploaded to the 2D Boy server.
7.- GNU Robbo is a famous atari XE/XL game ported to Linux.
GNU Robbo is a famous atari XE/XL game ported to Linux. Robbo the robot is trying to get out of the planet. He must collect all parts of capsule to move to next level.
GNU Robbo is a free open source reimplementation of Janusz Pelc's Robbo (->) for the Atari XE/XL (->) which was distributed by LK Avalon (->) in 1989.
Features.
Graphical skin support: Oily, Original and Tronic
Sound skin support: Default, Free and Oily
Support for user supplied music
1113 levels across 28 packs converted from Robbo and Robbo Konstruktor
A mouse/stylus driven level designer
Support for Alex (a Robbo clone) objects
Support for Robbo Millenium objects
8.- Adamant Armor Affection Adventure is a stealth / action game in 3D environment.
Adamant Armor Affection Adventure is a stealth / action game in 3D environment.
You will get an opportunity to explore the space inhabited by hostile creatures, wade through them hiding in the shadows or break through the enemy in fight.
The sequel of the famous AAA, the 2nd entry in the riot-tag competition and long awaited game is now available on
Port by sebt3 and Quasist (in a few hours ).
Changes since Caanoo release :
- support for both nubs
- disabled g-sensor
- disabled rumble
- added 800x480 support
The game has 11 additional secret extreme levels. (including one minecraft-like mode)
Alien Swarm is an overhead view tactical squad-based shooter for UT2K4. Set in the the distant future, the players take the role of a Commander in the Interstellar Armed Forces. They must guide their squad of marines through Swarm infested colonies, overrun bases and outposts, to achieve a variety of objectives. Featuring Assault Rifles, Heat Tracking Guns, Sentry Guns, Flamethrowers and more. Supports co-operative multiplayer.
Alien Swarm is a top-down shoot-em-up set at a 60-degree angle. Four players can join a single co-operative game, the aim of which is to progress through science fiction-themed levels while eliminating waves of aliens. Players can choose from 40 different pieces of equipment. The game includes persistent statistics, unlockable equipment, and achievements.
10.- Toribash is a ragdoll-physics, turn-based fighting game.
Toribash is a ragdoll-physics, turn-based fighting game. Create your own martial arts movies in single player sandbox mode, or join the competition in the multi player modes.
The focus is on tactics rather than reaction and button mashing. The game features physics, full dismemberment, decapitation and comic style blood. Lovely!
The basic aim of the game is to fight the opponent, scoring points for damage. Some limbs break easier then others, others give more points when hit. To get more points, each joint can be relaxed, contracted, extended or held. This makes the gameplay very open-ended as there are no set moves, although many people will copy a move which seems to work well.
XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms, including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi (Japanese chess) and Makruk, in addition to many minor variants such as Losers Chess, Crazyhouse, Chess960 and Capablanca Chess.
It displays a chessboard on the screen, accepts moves made with the mouse, and loads and saves games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including:
Chess engines that will run on your machine and play a game against you or help you analyze, such as GNU Chess, Crafty, or many others.
Chess servers on the Internet, where you can connect to play chess with people from all over the world, watch other users play, or just hang out and chat.
Correspondence chess played by electronic mail. The CMail program automates the tasks of parsing email from your opponent, playing his moves out on your board, and mailing your reply move after you've chosen it.
2.- 100 Best Free and High Quality Linux Games, Chapter 8.
Genre: Action, Driving, Third person
License: Proprietary/Closed Source
Cost: Free
Website: http://gct-game.net/
3.- Obsidian is an open source 3D virtual world for Linux and OpenGL.
Obsidian is an extensible virtual world system with a fullblown multiplayer client-server architecture. It is NOT a VRML2 world system (there are fundamental computer graphics reasons why VRML worlds will always be slow), though there are plans to include VRML2 as a world data format.
Features include: Multiplayer Client-Server architecture, Editable worlds and textures, and projectile weapons.
Obsidian is now a parked project, and no further work will be done on it. Feel free to use this code and study the thinking behind it, but we do NOT advise using it as the basis for any virtual world projects you may have in mind.
Obsidian is an extensible virtual world system with a fullblown multiplayer client-server architecture. It is NOT a VRML2 world system (there are fundamental computer graphics reasons why VRML worlds will always be slow), though there are plans to include VRML2 as a world data format.
4.- 3D Chess, 3 dimensional Chess game for X11R6.
By default, Ubuntu comes with glChess, part of the GNOME game suite. It uses the venerable and solid GNUChess engine, but the 2D graphics, while functional, lack the flash common in modern computer chess games. 3 dimensional Chess game for X11R6. There are three boards, stacked vertically; 96 pieces of which most are the traditional chess pieces with just a couple of additions; 26 possible directions in which to move. The AI isn't wonderful, but provides a challenging enough game to all but the most highly skilled players.
3D Chess is an odd, yet interesting game. You have three boards upon which to play, a few new pieces, and no manual to tell me how the new pieces work!!! But this game looks quite cool though, a bit like chess in Star Trek. All it needs is a manual or a link to a website containing documentation. Also, there is no AI to handle this game, so you must have another person to play with. I also like the board names which are x, y, and z.
5.- 3D Chess, 3 dimensional Chess game for X11R6.
By default, Ubuntu comes with glChess, part of the GNOME game suite. It uses the venerable and solid GNUChess engine, but the 2D graphics, while functional, lack the flash common in modern computer chess games. 3 dimensional Chess game for X11R6. There are three boards, stacked vertically; 96 pieces of which most are the traditional chess pieces with just a couple of additions; 26 possible directions in which to move. The AI isn't wonderful, but provides a challenging enough game to all but the most highly skilled players.
3D Chess is an odd, yet interesting game. You have three boards upon which to play, a few new pieces, and no manual to tell me how the new pieces work!!! But this game looks quite cool though, a bit like chess in Star Trek. All it needs is a manual or a link to a website containing documentation. Also, there is no AI to handle this game, so you must have another person to play with. I also like the board names which are x, y, and z.
World of Goo is a physics-based puzzle game by 2D Boy, an independent game developer consisting of Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel, both former Electronic Arts employees, released for Linux, Android and WiiWare. It was nominated for the Seumas McNally grand prize, Design Innovation Award, and Technical Excellence at the Independent Games Festival, and has gone on to win several other gaming awards since its release.
The game is built around the idea of creating large structures using balls of goo.The game is divided into five chapters, each containing several levels. Each level has its own graphic and musical theme, giving it unique atmosphere.
There is also a bonus meta-game called World of Goo Corporation, where the objective is to build the highest tower using goo balls which the player collected through the course of the game. Players from all over the world can compete, as the height of the tower and number of goo balls used are being constantly uploaded to the 2D Boy server.
7.- GNU Robbo is a famous atari XE/XL game ported to Linux.
GNU Robbo is a famous atari XE/XL game ported to Linux. Robbo the robot is trying to get out of the planet. He must collect all parts of capsule to move to next level. GNU Robbo is a free open source reimplementation of Janusz Pelc's Robbo (->) for the Atari XE/XL (->) which was distributed by LK Avalon (->) in 1989.
Features.
Graphical skin support: Oily, Original and Tronic
Sound skin support: Default, Free and Oily
Support for user supplied music
1113 levels across 28 packs converted from Robbo and Robbo Konstruktor
A mouse/stylus driven level designer
Support for Alex (a Robbo clone) objects
Support for Robbo Millenium objects
8.- Adamant Armor Affection Adventure is a stealth / action game in 3D environment.
Adamant Armor Affection Adventure is a stealth / action game in 3D environment. You will get an opportunity to explore the space inhabited by hostile creatures, wade through them hiding in the shadows or break through the enemy in fight.
The sequel of the famous AAA, the 2nd entry in the riot-tag competition and long awaited game is now available on
Port by sebt3 and Quasist (in a few hours ).
Changes since Caanoo release :
- support for both nubs
- disabled g-sensor
- disabled rumble
- added 800x480 support
The game has 11 additional secret extreme levels. (including one minecraft-like mode)
9.- Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.
Alien Swarm is an overhead view tactical squad-based shooter for UT2K4. Set in the the distant future, the players take the role of a Commander in the Interstellar Armed Forces. They must guide their squad of marines through Swarm infested colonies, overrun bases and outposts, to achieve a variety of objectives. Featuring Assault Rifles, Heat Tracking Guns, Sentry Guns, Flamethrowers and more. Supports co-operative multiplayer.
Alien Swarm is a top-down shoot-em-up set at a 60-degree angle. Four players can join a single co-operative game, the aim of which is to progress through science fiction-themed levels while eliminating waves of aliens. Players can choose from 40 different pieces of equipment. The game includes persistent statistics, unlockable equipment, and achievements.
10.- Toribash is a ragdoll-physics, turn-based fighting game.
Toribash is a ragdoll-physics, turn-based fighting game. Create your own martial arts movies in single player sandbox mode, or join the competition in the multi player modes. The focus is on tactics rather than reaction and button mashing. The game features physics, full dismemberment, decapitation and comic style blood. Lovely!
The basic aim of the game is to fight the opponent, scoring points for damage. Some limbs break easier then others, others give more points when hit. To get more points, each joint can be relaxed, contracted, extended or held. This makes the gameplay very open-ended as there are no set moves, although many people will copy a move which seems to work well.
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