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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:48 am    Post subject: Good Looking *nix Games Reply with quote

*nix games that are both fun and visually attractive. By fun, I mean something that you actually enjoy playing. Pretty much anything other than FPS games (which have been covered ad nauseum on these forums) are eligible.

Puzzle
Anagramarama: Find anagrams, this is my favourite time waster.
Briquolo: 3D arkanoid (suggested by Aynjell).
Crack Attack: Similar to Tetris Attack (suggested by gaminggeek).
Fish-Fillets-NG: Guide two fish by moving obstacles. Weird.
Frozen Bubble: Group coloured balls. Looks really nice.
I Have No Tomatoes: 3D tomato squashing (suggested by JoseJX).
LBreakout2: An arkanoid clone. Really addicting.
LinCity-NG: Sim City type game. Looks really good.
Monsterz: Bejeweled clone. Great sounds.
Neverball: Monkey Ball type game. Bloody hard.
Pathological: Coloured marble puzzle game.

Racing
Planet Penguin Racer: Penguin sledding game (suggested by charlieg).
TORCS: 3D racing simulator (suggested by sirdilznik).
Trigger: 3D rally racing (suggested by sirdilznik).
VDrift: 3D driving simulator (sugested by charlieg).

Strategy
Battle for Wesnoth: Fantasy turn based game (suggested by Torangan).
Boson: Military RTS (suggested by charlieg).
FreeCol: Colonization clone (suggested by charlieg).
FreeOrion: Master of Orion clone (suggested by charlieg).
Glest: Fantasy RTS (suggested by charlieg).
Globulation 2: In depth RTS (suggested by BlackEdder).
Nexuiz: 3D death match (suggested by charlieg).
S.C.O.U.R.G.E.: Graphical NetHack type game (suggested by charlieg).
TA Spring: Sci-Fi RTS based on Total Annihilation (suggested by charlieg).
UFO AI: Sci-Fi turn based game based on the X-COM games (suggested by charlieg).
Vega Strike: 3D space exploration and trading (suggested by charlieg).

Apparently charlieg loves strategy games...
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

with wine:
http://frankscorner.org

old shcool:
http://games.linux.sk/index.php?group=&sort=&count=5&pos=24

Native and with Cedega
http://liflg.org/?catid=6&gameid=17

gentoo and games:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/games/
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

never knew about the sim city clone. will have to check that out now :)
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Blue-Steel wrote:
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Great links. I'd never heard of Frank's Corner or Gentoo Games before.

John5788 wrote:
never knew about the sim city clone. will have to check that out now :)

No me neither, I was quite surprised at how good it looks. I haven't had time to sit down and really play it yet though.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You may want to check out Briquolo.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 2:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Battle for Wesnoth (emerge wesnoth)
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A couple decent looking racing games:
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aynjell wrote:
You may want to check out Briquolo.

That is fun. Thank you. I added it to my list.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No problemo mate. Xjump may not be eye candy, but it's maddenly addictive.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

you also might wanna check out crack-attack
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How did that go unlisted, first off...
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

havnt a clue..
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

papal_authority, you have failed us.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Off the top of my head... (some are still a little under developed, but all are active - even UFO AI)

VDrift (www.vdrift.net)
UFO AI (www.ufoai.net)
Glest (www.glest.org)
FreeCol (www.freecol.org)
FreeOrion (www.freeorion.org)
SCOURGE (http://scourge.sourceforge.net)
Vega Strike (http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net)
Boson (http://boson.eu.org)
Nexuiz (www.nexuiz.com)
PlanetPenguinRacer (http://projects.planetpenguin.de/racer/)
TA Spring (http://taspring.clan-sy.com/)
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

glob2 http://epfl.ysagoon.com/wiki/
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I Have No Tomatoes
http://tomatoes.sourceforge.net/
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also:

Wormux (www.wormux.org/wiki/en/index.php)
Taurus Trooper (www.emhsoft.net/ttrooper)
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Aynjell wrote:
You may want to check out Briquolo.


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, lots of game suggestions. Thanks guys. My compiler's getting a good workout :D

One thing I've noticed about Linux games is the lack of instructions. For example, I can't figure out how to add roads in LinCity-NG and I have no idea how to even play I Have No Tomatoes. Battle of Wesnoth really stands out in this regard, the manual is very good.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
 
games-engines/scummvm
      Latest version available: 0.8.1
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 2,650 kB
      Homepage:      http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/
      Description:   Reimplementation of the SCUMM game engine used in Lucasarts adventures
      License:       GPL-2



dont forget thisss xD.Missed old adventures :/ Was playing a lot on my desktop gonna install again ;)
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OMG... how did I forget scummvm! Thank you so much!

For scummvm, you can't just merge scummvm, you need to do this:

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emerge scummvm fotaq bass

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pingus is also a nice game to pass the time with.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aynjell wrote:
OMG... how did I forget scummvm! Thank you so much!

For scummvm, you can't just merge scummvm, you need to do this:

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emerge scummvm fotaq bass



nice games thank you all so much !!

for what are these 2 packages : fotaq bass

scummvm doesnt show any dependencies.. ?

and dont i need still any old files ?
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