Great Open Source Games
I've just completed a long article on the current state of open source software in general that will post tomorrow morning, but I wanted to split this small piece on games out into a separate post. Without further ado, I give you 4 great Open Source games which play on Windows and Linux.
- Battle for Wesnoth
- http://www.wesnoth.org
- The
Battle For Wesnoth is a turn based strategy game. Aside from
the default quest being quite entertaining and extremely
challenging, there is also a lively community producing tons
of downloadable quests and additional graphics.
Game-play is straightforward and fun, and figuring out how many troops to recruit, how to use them, etc, has kept me up late quite a few nights recently.
- Liquid War
- http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/
- This one is the most original games I've played in years. You really just have to play it to understand it, but you control an army of tens of thousands of units, which move towards your cursor. Lead them in the right direction, and they'll surround the enemy and win. Leave their back or flank open, and you're in hot water. There's so many troops, they really do flow like liquid.
- JDuplicate
- http://jduplicate.sourceforge.net/
- JDupilcate, a Java-based scrabble clone. Would be great if more (any) people were on their server to play against.
- Neverball
- http://icculus.org/neverball/
- Neverball, which is a clone of Super Monkey Ball. If you've never played it, it's like Marble Madness + one of those wooden labyrinth games you had as a kid on speed. Very addictive. Be warned that this is 3D on SDL, which means you'll need either a modern graphics card or a really beefy CPU to make it run well
