linux games
Mar. 23rd, 2012 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eI 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
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
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Date: 2012-03-24 01:54 pm (UTC)Except he games.
(He has a server set up for Battlefield Game of War 3 or something, and I think a bunch of his fun is writing C code and such to stop script kiddies. And learning from script kiddies. And he likes the challenge of gaming for some reason.)
I've always been more interested in how computers work and how the games are made than in playing them.
As a kid I had that in spades. Apparently I was always taking stuff apart. I got trained out of it. I taught myself a smattering of html years ago by using WHYSIWYG editors and reverse engineering the code, but mostly I am an end user.
That's pretty awesome. Of the subset of people who would have done that, I'd say the number of women worldwide would have been minimal. Tens, maybe hundred-odd best.
Lastly, I most recently got an Android (which is Linux) handheld computer which uses an ARM processor.
I look at my phone and and I am amazed every day.
What a pity $100 million (its budget) is being invested in a killing-game though.
You may have posted about this (I have a sense you did) but you should check out WarCo:
http://defiantdev.com/2011/09/12/first-look-at-warco/
They're still looking for funding, sadly. You might not be interested in playing it but it seems like a thing you would enjoy watching become real.
I hope you can get Transport Tycoon running. It sounds like a fascinating premise for a game.
Sadly, by Ubuntu is too old and I can't add old packages (or, if I can, I haven't looked into a workaround. It's not worth it for a Railroad Tycoon clone. Some day I'll spend some time setting up my new machine. But the coders at Canonical and Mozilla don't make it easy.