Top 10 blog posts for July 2014 from Linux & The Planet Games.

1.- Escaping ghosts in a maze with Kapman.

Escaping ghosts in a maze with Kapman.

Kapman is a clone of the well known game Pac-Man. You must go through the levels escaping ghosts in a maze. You lose a life when a ghost eats you, but you can eat the ghosts for a few seconds when eating an energizer. You win points when eating pills, energizers, and bonus, and you win one life for each 10,000 points. When you have eaten all the pills and energizers of a level, you go to the

Read More ... »

2.- Bovo is a Gomoku-like game for KDE.

Bovo is a Gomoku-like game for KDE.

Bovo is a Gomoku like game for two players, where the opponents alternate in placing their respective pictogram on the game board. The aim of this game is to connect five of your own pieces in an unbroken row vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Objective: Bovo is part of the KDE project http://www.kde.org/. Bovo can be found in the kdegames package on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main FTP

Read More ... »

3.- KBounce is a single player arcade game with the elements of puzzle.

KBounce is a single player arcade game with the elements of puzzle.

Kbounce is a clone of the popular Jezzball game originally created by Microsoft. The game is very simple but it needs skill, timing and patience to finish it. You will win if you can fill at minimum 75% of the area with the bricks. You have to do it fast because you only have 90 seconds. Installation From Ubuntu Terminal screen (Applications > Accessories > Terminal), type: sudo apt-get

Read More ... »

 

4.- Mednafen is a multi-system emulator, driven from the command-line.

Mednafen is a multi-system emulator, driven from the command-line.

Mednafen is a multi-system emulator, driven from the command-line. Many of its cores are ports of other emulators, but many of them are also original. Its Playstation and PC Engine original cores are notable for their high quality, compatibility and accuracy. Mednafen only has a command line interface, so its interface might be hard to use to new users. The best cores in Mednafen are those that

Read More ... »

 

5.- Horror Adventure Game Serena Weaves A Haunting Marital Tale.

Horror Adventure Game Serena Weaves A Haunting Marital Tale.

If you’re a fan of adventure games, psychological horror and very-much-almost-peeing-yourself-in-fright, then Serena is the right game for you! A point-and-click self-described as a “twisted letter to the adventure gaming community,” Serena is by all means an interesting experience that keeps you on the edge of your seat. The labour of love of over forty contributors, including both developers

Read More ... »

 

6.- Babaliba is a video-adventure with fast movements and frenetic action.

Babaliba is a video-adventure with fast movements and frenetic action.

Babaliba is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer game programmed by Víctor Ruiz, founder of Dinamic, one of the great software companies of Spanish software "golden age", in 1985. It is part of the trilogy started with Saimazoom, followed by Babaliba and ended with the amazing Abu Simbel Profanation, starring Johnnie Jones. Babaliba is a video-adventure with fast movements and frenetic action.

Read More ... »

 

7.- Axis Runner project is a 3D game with a fast built-in graphics engine.

Axis Runner project is a 3D game with a fast built-in graphics engine.

Axis Runner is a 3D game inspired by the Apple II game "Lode Runner". It features a built-in graphics engine and runs fine without hardware acceleration. All direction is relative as characters climb up on the walls and ceiling, reminiscent of the fighting scenes in movies such as "The Matrix". This idea comes from some years ago; basically a 3D lode-runner type game with a weird topology: if

Read More ... »

 

8.- Atom Zombie Smasher is the perfect post-Iraq zombie game.

Atom Zombie Smasher is the perfect post-Iraq zombie game.

As a game, Atom Zombie Smasher is just a series of RTS matches. You’re harvesting resources from a map. Instead of fighting an enemy, you’re fighting time, because the resources go bad in a matter of seconds (these are very short matches). You get three or four units, which makes Atom Zombie Smasher a bit of a puzzle game. Sometimes you’ll get a perfect set of tools for the situation. Other

Read More ... »

 

9.- Top 10 indie games of 2013.

Top 10 indie games of 2013.

We don't need to tell you that the gaming industry is currently experiencing an 'indie boom' -- the evidence has been piling up throughout 2011, with numerous developers at AAA studios leaving their jobs behind to work on exactly the kind of games they want to make. You only have to look at the Independent Games Festival record number of entries to know indies mean business this year. This time

Read More ... »

 

10.- Asciiquarium is an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.

Asciiquarium is an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.

Asciiquarium is an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art. It includes multicolored fish, a whale, and a fish-eating shark. KDE Asciiquarium is a KDE screensaver based off of Kirk Baucom's FABULOUS asciiquarium program (http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/). Or in other words, it's a simulation of an ocean scene, but using ASCII art instead. NOTE This content is the KDE 3 version of

Read More ... »

If you liked this article, subscribe to the feed by clicking the image below to keep informed about new contents of the blog:

Share on Google Plus

About Giampaolo Rossi.

Fond of computer and video games. Stay informed of the latest news on games for Linux and Android. The future of gaming is in Linux. All you need to know about How to play Windows games on Linux.
    Blogger Comment
    Facebook Comment

0 commenti:

Post a Comment

Random Posts

  • Aspyr Media behind the success of Linux and SteamOS.
    15.11.2015 - 0 Comments
    Aspyr Media has revealed that it is betting its future on the success of Valve’s SteamOS project, and that despite the tiny minority of machines running Linux it is already approaching a break-even point. …
  • Obsidian is an open source 3D virtual world for Linux and OpenGL.
    29.03.2013 - Comments Disabled
    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…
  • Lugaru, The Rabbit's Foot, is a cross-platform 3D fighting game.
    02.07.2009 - 0 Comments
    Lugaru (pronounced Loo-GAH-roo) is is the first commercial third-person action title available for Linux. The main character, Turner, is an anthropomorphic rebel bunny rabbit with impressive combat skills. In…
  • Unreal Tournament 2004, also known as UT2K4 and UT2004, is a futuristic first-person shooter computer game
    09.11.2009 - 0 Comments
    Unreal Tournament 2004, also known as UT2K4 and UT2004, is a futuristic first-person shooter computer game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. It is part of the Unreal series of games and is the…
  • FreeNukum is an approach to rewrite the engine of the Duke Nukem 1.
    10.09.2012 - Comments Disabled
    FreeNukum is an approach to rewrite the engine of the Duke Nukem 1 (2D, EGA graphics) game. It will be possible to play the game using the original graphics and level data, as well as you can play using your…
  • Introductory to PayDay 2 Basics
    18.05.2022 - 0 Comments
    DISCLAIMER: Hello, my name is Shady. In this guide I will be showcasing a few tips for both veteran and newcomers alike. There will be many sections dedicated to particular types of tips, such as advice for…
  • GNOME Games is a collection of sixteen small
    05.07.2009 - 0 Comments
    GNOME Games is a collection of sixteen small "five-minute" games in a variety of styles and genres for the GNOME desktop. Here you can find useful information about playing the games, and can contribute…
  • Chocolate Doom is a Doom source port which aims to behave as closely as possible to the original DOS Doom executables.
    20.03.2012 - 0 Comments
    Chocolate Doom is a Doom source port which aims to behave as closely as possible to the original DOS Doom executables ("Vanilla Doom"). In 1998 the Doom source code was released. Since then, there have been…
  • Terraria Guide action-adventure sandbox video game: Starting Out.
    20.04.2017 - 4 Comments
    Welcome to Terraria! Whether you are a new player, or perhaps a returning player who can’t remember if it’s Blinkroot or Moonglow that goes in that Night Owl Potion, hopefully, this guide can be of some help…
  • The most popular games of the month: April 2013.
    28.05.2013 - Comments Disabled
    1.- 109 More of the Best Free and High Quality Linux Games Adventure. Some years ago a friend of mine told me that the Linux based operating systems were like arthouse films Iranians unintelligible, boring…