Linux, come tutti i sistemi Unix, è ben noto per le sue potenzialità di rete. Tutti sanno che una rete o un web server basati su Linux sono un'ottima soluzione, economica, affidabile, e che non necessita di hardware troppo potente; ciò ha fatto di questo sistema operativo una presenza importante nel settore dei server.
Tuttavia, negli ultimi tempi, Linux pare aver avanzato la sua candidatura anche quale sistema operativo per desktop, per sistemi, insomma, personali. Effettivamente le caratteristiche di velocità ed affidabilità (senza dimenticare il costo - o meglio, la mancanza di esso) di questo Unix ne fanno un concorrente temibile per ogni altro sistema operativo commerciale; i pregi sembrano essere maggiori dei difetti, il principale dei quali sembra essere, secondo i detrattori di Linux, la mancanza di applicazioni. Se può essere facilmente smentito che manchino applicativi di produttività generale o scientifici, è purtroppo vero che il settore videoludico del Linux è molto lacunoso.
Vediamo un po' di esempi per esaminare meglio qual è la situazione attuale e quali sviluppi vi potranno essere in seguito.
Magic Maze ti getterà all'interno di una prigione sotterranea in 3D, solo con la tua fedele arma da fuoco e il tuo fiuto per scovare tesori.
Dovrai esplorare i passaggi dei labirinti, scovando le ricchezze e uccidendo i mostri che ti stanno tra i piedi.
Le tue abilità si potenzieranno automaticamente, man mano che attraverserai i 12 livelli pieni di azione, nei quali potrai freddare i mostri e liberare gas tossici che ti faranno strada fino all'uscita. Non appena troverai le tre gemme di ciascun livello, potrai avanzare a quello successivo e, passo dopo passo, troverai sfide ancor più impegnative!
Tuttavia, negli ultimi tempi, Linux pare aver avanzato la sua candidatura anche quale sistema operativo per desktop, per sistemi, insomma, personali. Effettivamente le caratteristiche di velocità ed affidabilità (senza dimenticare il costo - o meglio, la mancanza di esso) di questo Unix ne fanno un concorrente temibile per ogni altro sistema operativo commerciale; i pregi sembrano essere maggiori dei difetti, il principale dei quali sembra essere, secondo i detrattori di Linux, la mancanza di applicazioni. Se può essere facilmente smentito che manchino applicativi di produttività generale o scientifici, è purtroppo vero che il settore videoludico del Linux è molto lacunoso.
Vediamo un po' di esempi per esaminare meglio qual è la situazione attuale e quali sviluppi vi potranno essere in seguito.
Una delizia per gli appassionati di grafica cartoon
trendy e mix classico sparatutto arcade. Il compito del cacciatore è
semplice: uccidere più anatre possibile!
Un sacco di nuove caratteristiche vi aspettano in questo gioco arcade incredibile. Questo gioco è promesso di diventare una delizia per gli appassionati di grafica cartoon alla moda e classico arcade / shooter mix. Oltre ai livelli tradizionali competenze dei Novice, Expert, e il Maestro, il gioco ha diverse modalità di gioco: Blitz, Sniper, Crossfire e CliKil.
Un sacco di nuove caratteristiche vi aspettano in questo gioco arcade incredibile. Questo gioco è promesso di diventare una delizia per gli appassionati di grafica cartoon alla moda e classico arcade / shooter mix. Oltre ai livelli tradizionali competenze dei Novice, Expert, e il Maestro, il gioco ha diverse modalità di gioco: Blitz, Sniper, Crossfire e CliKil.
- 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 ti getterà all'interno di una prigione sotterranea in 3D, solo con la tua fedele arma da fuoco e il tuo fiuto per scovare tesori.
Dovrai esplorare i passaggi dei labirinti, scovando le ricchezze e uccidendo i mostri che ti stanno tra i piedi.
Le tue abilità si potenzieranno automaticamente, man mano che attraverserai i 12 livelli pieni di azione, nei quali potrai freddare i mostri e liberare gas tossici che ti faranno strada fino all'uscita. Non appena troverai le tre gemme di ciascun livello, potrai avanzare a quello successivo e, passo dopo passo, troverai sfide ancor più impegnative!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tux vs Clippy Tux vs Clippy is a top view shooting game that lets you play the OS battle.
- Twisted Life Twisted Life is a video game that uses a variant of John H. Conway's Life cellular automaton in which life forms twist around the center of the universe.
- uxTank The objective of the game is to shoot everything that you can see and to capture all bonuses possible.
- Wings 2 Wings 2 is a 2D multiplayer network game. You fly small and agile ships in varied maps, choosing from a wide variety of different weapons and devices to use against your opponents. The game offers several game modes with different styles of play, and supports internet, LAN and splitscreen games. A free edition is also available.
- Wok In Wok the game objective is very simple. Catch the falling balls by the wok(a flying pan) and throw them to the right. You can control the wok by mouse.
- XBill XBill pits you as a sysadmin. Stop the enemy from trying to destroy your computers.
- XEvil XEvil is a 3rd person, side-view, fast-action, kill-them-before-they-kill-you game. Fight against either computer-controlled enemies, or another player.
- YaRP YaRP is a third-person shooter based upon an '85 anime series called Mospeada. Uses OpenGL for rendering, NL for networking, SDL for graphics initialization MS3D for models, FMOD for (3D) sound, and is programmed in C/C++.
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