Visto que la gente principalmente tiene como primer problema para migrar a Linux es el tema de los juegos, os vamos a dejar una lista detallada de juegos en la que hacemos hincapié para demostrar que en Linux también se puede jugar y bien. Vamos a animar un poco el domingo entonces.
Los juegos que os proponemos son la mayoría 3D y nativos de Linux, sin necesidad de tener que correr Wine o similares. Son juegos de calidad y la mayoría ha ganado algún premio y salido en alguna revista.
La lista de los juegos es abierta, podéis aportar más juegos e iremos añadiéndolos poco a poco. Por ahora propongo los siguientes: Battle for Wesnoth, Nexuiz, America’s Army, Enemy Territories: Quake Wars, Tremulous, World of Padman, Tux Racer, Vendetta, Alien Arena 2007, Urban Terror, A Tale in the Desert, Second Life, Savage 2, Warsow, TrueCombat: Elite, Frozen Bubble, TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator), Flight Gear, Frets on Fire, Scorched 3D, ManiaDrive, WarZone 2100, Spring, Battle Tanks y para terminar por ahora: Excalibur: Morgana’s Revenge v3.0.
Vamos a dar una breve explicación de cada uno así como el enlace a las respectivas páginas oficiales, aclarando que el orden de ellos no indica una mayor o menor importancia:
- Frozen Bubble
Frozen Bubble is a full-featured, colorful animated penguin eyecandy, 50 levels of 1p game, hours and hours of 2p game, 3 professional quality 20-channels musics, 15 stereo sound effects, 7 unique graphical transition effects. Read more hot
- Penumbra: Overture Episode 1
(commercial) Penumbra: Overture is a first person adventure game which focuses on story, immersion and puzzles. Instead of using violence to progress the player has to use his/her wits to guide Philip on his quest to unravel the past. Read more
- The Last Sorceror
(commercial) The Last Sorceror is a fast-action game where you are the leader of a powerful Order of Sorcerors. Having defeated mankind's greatest enemy, the Demon Hordes, you retreat to Haven for a life of peaceful seclusion. hot
- 2Pong
2Pong is pong clone. However, there is one visible difference from the regular pong - it is played with two balls instead of one.
- Airstrike
Airstrike is a 2d dogfighting game being slowly developed by various people around the net. It is not yet playable although there is an old version which may be a bit fun to try.
- Ambassador of Pain
Aop is a curses based arcade game for Linux/UNIX with only 64 lines of sourcecode.
- Amphetamine
Amphetamine is a cool Jump'n Run game offering some unique visual effects.
- apricots
apricots is a game where you fly a little plane around the screen and shoot things and drop bombs on enemy targets, and it's meant to be quick and fun.
- Ardentryst
Ardentryst is an action/RPG sidescoller, focused not just on fighting, but on story, and character development. Strategy as well as reflexes will be needed to overcome the game.
- Armadillo
Armadillo is an SDL game with an armadillo dude shootemup world.
- ASCIIQuarium
Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!
- Atom Zombie Smasher
(commercial) Atom Zombie Smasher is an action-packed game that plays out across a number of missions where your goal is to evacuate zombie-infested cities with a helicopter and groups of mercenaries. Read more
- Axis Runner
Axis Runner is a 3D game inspired by the Apple II game "Lode Runner". It is a 3D lode-runner type game with a weird topology: if the runner bumps into a wall he climbs up (like the fighting scenes in "The Matrix" or "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") but if he reaches an edge he falls, in the current downwards direction. I.e. the direction of gravity changes.
- Babaliba
Babaliba is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer game with fast movement and frenetic action.
- Balloon Chase
In Balloon Chase you fly a hot air balloon and try to blow the other player out of the screen There is no AI in balloon chase (at least not yet), so you must have 2 players in order to play.
- battalion
battalion was a game written in 1994 on a Silicon Graphics Indy in GL for the Indizone-3 contest. This version also ran in the CAVE(tm) as a virtual reality game at the EVE 4 art show in May 1995.
- Battlemech
Battlemech is a game in which you pilot a mech from an overhead view, fighting other mechs with a variety of weapons in a struggle to gain points, capture the flag, or defend the base.
- Be The Wumpus
Be The Wumpus is a game with no graphics and no text, only audio. You are a wumpus, a blind, cave-dwelling creature who subsists on meals of unlucky cave wanderers.
- Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer
Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer is a 3rd person action shooter. With the apparent defeat of Galdov and the reclaiming of the Fire, Time, Space, and Reality Crystals, the Blobs' battle was only just beginning. Bob had rescued many Blobs and fought many battles, but now he had an ever bigger task ahead of him. The Blobs' homeworld is still littered with the alien forces and Bob once again makes it his task to lead the counter attack. But even without Galdov the aliens are still extremely well organised.
- Bobby
(commercial) The game is simple: knock all of the green balls into the spirals, and then proceed to the next dimension. A lot of bouncing around and swearing "Just one more try" later, and you could save the world!
- Bomba, Bechere!
Bomba, Bechere! pits you against terrorists who have penetrated a factory.
- Bug Squish
In Bug Squish, you must defend your arm from an onslaught of blood-sucking insects. Use your fly-swatter to squish them before they suck you dry.
- cave9
cave9 is a gravity cave-exploration game. It's a 3D version of the classic SF-Cave game. Your ship goes into a cave at constant forward speed, and you have to control two diagonal thrusts to keep it from hitting the walls. As the game progress, the cave will twist more and become more tight.
- Cavepilot
Cavepilot is yet another cave flying game in the spirit of the old legendary Amiga games Turbo Raketti and Gravity Force.
- CAVEZ of PHEAR
CAVEZ of PHEAR is a Boulder Dash / Digger like game for 80x25 consoles/terminals using ncurses.
- ChouXiang
ChouXiang is an abstract shooting game.
- Curses Lines
Curses Lines is a "Lines" game for the Unix terminal. It requires a certain terminal size, supports a mouse (curses or GPM), and works with various ncurses libraries.
- Cylindrix
Cylindrix is a polygonal 3D action strategy shooter. It was released for DOS in 1995, and is now ported to Windows and Linux.
- Dangen
dangen is a shoot 'em up game that attach importance to accuracy of shooting. With the combination of the cursor key and the shot button, you can shoot at your side or even at your back. Get the bonus point by hitting the enemy without a miss. You can choose stages of different difficulty.
- Dangerous Snowboarding
Run humans and bears with your snowboard down.
- Darwinia
(commercial) The world of Darwinia is a virtual themepark, running inside a computer network built by a computer genius named Dr Sepulveda. Darwinia is populated by a sentient evolving life form called the Darwinians. They are the product of a decades worth of research into genetic algorithms. Read more
- Deathchase 3D
Deathchase 3D is a remake of the Sinclair Spectrum game of the same name. It's a pseudo 3D game based on the light speeder sequence from "Return of the Jedi" where you have to shoot the bad guys' speeders
- Domino Blast
Domino Blast is a physics-based driving/demolition game with a children's toys theme.
- Dr. Sanity
Dr. Sanity is a fast-paced game where you must protect a brain from going insane for as long as possible. Armed with a special "sanity medication" and 5 über-pills, you must keep the insanity from reaching the brain in the center of the field.
- Dwarrendelf
Dwarrendelf is a fairy tale game, The fairy realms of Uldramar are being invaded. You start your quest on the shore of the Twilight Waters.
- Dynamite Jack
(commercial) Dynamite Jack is a stealth game featuring 28 levels, map editor, community sharing, and speedrun leaderboards.
- egg-O-shOOter
(commercial) egg-O-shOOter is a 2D first person shooter where players collect points by shooting the eggs, but never shoot at creatures.
- enemy lines
enemy lines is a simple abstract 2D shooter game. The goal is to shoot the lines coming from the right before they hit the left border.
- Epic Inventor
Epic Inventor combines side-scrolling, RPG, and RTS elements into a random ball.
- Escape of the Unicorn
Escape of the Unicorn is a 2D flying shooter game. The aim is to escape from the dangerous cave and save your life.
- Fight or Perish
Fight or Perish is a Dandy-inspired dungeon crawling action game. It utilizes cellular automata to allow for literally hundreds or thousands of enemies on the map.
- FlatFrag
FlatFrag is a multiplayer action shooter game. With its deathmatch fights it strives to be an entertaining arcade-style experience. The game is played from a bird's eye view and contains some 3D effects in order to make it not seem too flat. Currently only the game mode deathmatch is available, but others will probably be developed in the future.
- Free Fallin' Fred: Open His Chute Or He'll Be Dead
Free Fallin' Fred is a very simple clicking game. You see the airplane going across the screen and after a while, Fred jumps. You click on Fred to open his chute. If you fail to open the chute in time, poor Fred will be dead. Don't let Fred die.
- Genuts Snake
Genuts Snake is a remake of the popular classic snake game.
- Gillo
Gillo is a two-player game in a virtual reality environment. Players are cars with a magnetic director, able to attract or reject a ball in order to throw it through a goal placed in the center of the playing field. It sounds easy... but remember that reality is fuzzy! Read more
- GLSFcave
GLSFcave is a port of SunFlat's SFcave to UNIX/OpenGL. The objective of the game is to control a ribbon and avoid hitting walls.
- Gunroar
Gunroar is an abstract shooter, created by Kenta Cho. Read more
- Hanihani Operation Sanctuary
Hanihani Operation Sanctuary is a port and English adaptation of a Japanese visual novel game.
- I Have No Tomatoes
I Have No Tomatoes features solid game play with beautiful OpenGL API driven isometric 3d graphics and nice music. It also includes a MOD player, and you can use your own MOD-type music in the game background.
- irrlamb
irrlamb is a 3D game that probably involves a lot of physics and frustrating gameplay.
- Jet Ducks
(commercial) Jet Ducks is a shoot at ducks game.
- Kairo
(commercial) Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game. Developed by Richard Perrin the creator of the white chamber with music by Wounds (Bartosz Szturgiewicz).
- KInsectizid
KInsectizid is a KDE-based 2D shooter. Your goal is to kill ugly insects.
- Leiserieselt
Leiserieselt is a simple game where you throw snowballs at each other.
- Loose Cannon
Loose Cannon is a single player 3D action & adventure game.
- Magic Maze
Magic Maze is a simple and low-tech monster-bashing maze game. It was originally inspired by playing Gauntlet II on the Atari ST.
- Magnificent Gunbright
Magnificent Gunbright is an abstract shooter; kind of a cross between Warning Forever and Tumiki Fighters. Your blob cloud is at once your defensive shield and your ammunition, and more blobs are always raining from the sky.
- MoagG
Moagg combines several game types of other genres like races, search & rescue, seek & destroy et cetera into a 2D gravity game. You are pilot of a small space ship and have to navigate that ship through different levels. But beside the gravity that drags you down there are other obstacles like laser ports, magnets, black holes, cannons, rockets and grinders you have to master.
- Molecule Man
Molecule Man is a port of a 3D isometric maze game for the ZX Spectrum that was released in 1986.
- Monkey Bubble
Monkey Bubble is a game in which you must explode all bubbles in the game area. You explode bubbles by putting at least 3 of the same colour in contact. Any bubble that is connected to the top or the sides of the game area by bubbles you just exploded falls too.
- Monster Masher
Monster Masher is for the Gnome desktop environment. The basic idea is that you, as levitation worker gnome, has to clean the caves for monsters that want to roll over you. You do the cleaning by mashing the monsters with stone blocks.
- Moon-Buggy
Moon-Buggy is a simple character graphics game, where you drive some kind of car across the moon's surface.
- Noiz2sa
Noiz2sa is a shootem up game set in an abstract world. 10 stages plus endless mode.
- OpenClonk
OpenClonk is a free multiplayer action skill game where you control clonks, small but witty and nimble humanoid beings. The game is mainly about mining, settling and fast-paced melees. Read more
- OpenOrbiter
OpenOrbiter is a multiplayer game for up to 8 players on one computer. Each player controls an Orbiter which is affected by gravity and inertia. The goal is to kick all other Orbiters out of the map.
- Outgun
Outgun is a simple multiplayer capture the flag game in 2D top-view, to be played on a network. Servers up to 32 players are supported.
- PengSwim
PengSwim is a game of swimming and eating, a penguin's two favorite activities. The pbject of PengSwim is to eat as many fish as possible within the time limit. Once you've eaten all the fish on the level, you move to a new level with more fish to eat. What could be simpler?
- Pengupop
Pengupop is an online multiplayer clone of Frozen-Bubble/Bust a Move. The purpose of the game is to shoot colored balls so they form groups and thus fall down. Any balls that fall down will reappear on your opponent's playfield as a side-effect.
- Possible Worlds
Snowball Surprise is a strategic, action packed 3D team game that's so cool it's freezing! The penguin inhabitants of Avatarctica love playing games such as Snowball Fight, Capture The Flag, Tag, and Soccer! Made with Python and OpenGL.
- Project Ares
Project Ares is a science fiction-based game made with AresEd, a 3D game creation suite based on Crystal Space.
- Pslange
pslange is a small console based game. It is a clone of an old classic usually known as snake or nibbles.
- Psychopyretic
Psychopyretic is a dungeon-based platformer game. The eventual goal is to allow full extensibility through the editing or creation of map files, campaign files, and scripts.
- pyCave
PyCave is a clone of the game SFCave, but with 3D graphics. The goal of the game is to fly a damaged ship inside a tunnel, avoiding obstacles. Other games of a similar nature are the famous "Helicopter Game" Flash game or "Jetman" in Facebook.
- pydance
pydance is a dancing game similar to Dance Dance Revolution or Pump It Up, for GNU/Linux.
- pyDDR
pyDDR is a DDR clone for Python that needs a name. DDR stands for Dance Dance Revolution, a game that's slowly earning popularity in the states, but is tremendously popular in Asian countries.
- Rabid Rabbit
Rabid Rabbit is a game for one player. You play a rabbit which tries to rescue lost sheep from marauding creatures.
- rbCave
rbCave is a clone of the PalmOS game SFCave. The player has to guide a "ship" through a cave that gets smaller as time passes.
- reaper
reaper is an OpenGL based 3D-game, emphasizing stunning graphics and interesting algorithms. Similiar to Rogue Squadron.
- Robo Hunt
In Robo Hunt you must take all the plutonium and don't be caught. The robot hunters uses Partile Filters AI technique
- RoboTournament
RoboTournament is a RoboRally inspired game where players program their robots to vanquish their opponents. RoboTournament features: Multiple Game Types: Death Match, Rally, and Capture The Flag, Multi-Player through TCP/IP, six weapons including the BFG, a map editor, and integrated chat.
- Sarah-Maries Eierjagd
Sarah-Maries Eierjagd is a small game that uses the SDL library. Catch as much eggs as you can, but none of the old eggs. Catch five golden eggs to fix one mistake.
- SDL Asylum
SDL Asylum is a C/SDL port of Andy Southgate's 1994 game Asylum, originally for the Acorn Archimedes. In the game, Young Sigmund has a few problems. To help him resolve his mental instability, you must enter the surreal world of his inner mind and shut down the malfunctioning brain cells.
- SDL Sopwith
SDL Sopwith is a port of the classic flying game Sopwith to modern operating systems and toolkits. It was originally a port to the LibSDL toolkit, but there is now a GTK+ version as well.
- SdlZombies
SdlZombies is a clone of old zombie games where you attract zombies and make them fall in holes.
- Search and Rescue
Search and Rescue is a game where the player pilots rescue helicopters to rescue victims in various situations of distress.
- Sintel The Game
Sintel The Game is a video game adaptation of popular open movie Sintel by Blender Foundation.
- Siroi Danmakukun
Siroi Danmakukun is a distillation of what excites (or frightens, or terrorizes) many modern shmup players: insane patterns of bullets.
- ski
Imagine you are skiing down an infinite slope, facing such hazards as trees, ice, bare ground, and the man-eating Yeti!
- Slune
Slune is a 3D game which includes racing, car-crashing, and lots of action!
- Smiling Bubbles
(commercial) Smiling Bubbles is a cartoon style game with bright-colored bubbles, bubble-faces and tons of bonuses. The task of the player is to remove all the bubbles from the game field by shooting at them.
- Snowball Surprise
Snowball Surprise is a strategic, action packed 3D team game that's so cool it's freezing! The penguin inhabitants of Avatarctica love playing games such as Snowball Fight, Capture The Flag, Tag, and Soccer! Made with Python and OpenGL.
- Snowballz
Snowballz is a (hopefully) fun little game in which you engage your group of penguins in a snowball fight.
- StepBill
An evil computer hacker, known only by his handle 'Bill', has created the ultimate computer virus. A virus so powerful that it has the power to transmute an ordinary computer into a toaster oven. (oooh!) 'Bill' has cloned himself into a billion-jillion micro-Bills. Their sole purpose is to deliver the nefarious virus, which has been cleverly disguised as a popular operating system. As System Administrator/Exterminator, your job is to keep Bill from succeeding at his task.
- The Grind
The Grind is a simple game about escaping from work at a reasonable hour by avoiding responsibility.
- The Invasion of the Blobs
Take this blob repellent. Spray the can to play.
- The Real Texas
(commercial) The Real Texas is an action adventure game that plays like a mashup of Zelda: Link to the Past and Ultima VI.
- Tiny & Big in: Grandpa?s Leftovers
(commercial) Tiny & Big in: Grandpa's Leftovers is set in a land, where common physics apply but everything else looks different. You are Tiny, a little, technophile guy with a ray cutter, a gripping device, a bad habit and a fine attitude towards the world. Read more
- trailblazer
trailblazer is a version of the classic Commodore and Sinclair Spectrum game: bounce a ball down a track to the end, avoiding the holes. This game is for Linux and other operating systems, and uses SDL
- Transcend Game
Transcend can best be described as retro-style, abstract, 2D shooter. The graphics are geometrical, and the pace is sometimes frenzied. Two features set Transcend apart from other games. First, its dynamic graphical engine, which can smoothly morph from one complex shape to another, produces striking displays. Combining these dynamic shapes with subtle randomizations makes each play through a Transcend level visually different from the last. The second novel feature is Transcend's musical power-up system. As you play through a level, you are simultaneously assembling an abstract visual collage and arranging a unique piece of music. Transcend merges video games with pure art---it can be viewed either as a game or as a multimedia sculpture.
- Tunnel
Tunnel is a game in which you control a capsule going down a tunnel, shooting other balls in the way. Tunnel is free software released under the GPL. The game has been tested on GNU/Linux and Windows.
fuente: Linux & The Planet Games
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