1.- 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
2.- 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
3.- 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
4.- 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
5.- 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
6.- 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.
7.- 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
8.- 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
9.- 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
10.- 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 ... »
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
2.- 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
3.- 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
4.- 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
5.- 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
6.- 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.
7.- 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
8.- 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
9.- 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
10.- 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 ... »
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