linux games

[miriam_e]

I don't play games. I don't know why. Some part of me is missing, perhaps. Sports, board games, card games, gambling, arcade games, role-playing games, computer games... it doesn't matter. They just don't seem to hold my interest. I know how brilliant many games are. I have tried some text-adventure games in the past, and probably due to their similarity to books, I have enjoyed some of those, but even then they don't hold my attention for long.

Dan, my nephew, shows me some jaw-dropping games whenever I visit my family. The graphics, the backstory, the immersion, are all quite amazing. Because Dan blew my mind with "Dear Esther" I posted about it here recently.

I'm visiting my family at the moment and I'd just watched my Mum playing a puzzle game and wondered what stuff might be out there, so on an impulse I did a quick search to see what Linux games exist. Boy, was I in for a surprise!

http://www.penguspy.com
http://www.lgdb.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_games
http://icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php

...a couple of blogs with game lists and reviews
http://www.dedoimedo.com/games/linux-games-best.html
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080510052539217/Games.html

...and a commercial game publisher
http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com