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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.
Played from a first person viewpoint, Penumbra is very different from other adventure games. Not only is it powered by a 3D engine utilising cutting edge technology, it also has an advanced physics system which allow for a never before seen environment interaction. The player can open drawers, pull levers, pick up objects and more using natural mouse movements creating a highly interactive and immersive game world.
The weapon system differs from your average game; swinging a melee weapon is done using the mouse which increases the realistic feel of combat. Fighting enemies is not something best done with brute force though, in most situations fighting is a last resort and the player is often better of using his/her wits. The AI of the enemies will also do its best to hunt and scare the player. The creatures encountered can break down doors, use group co-ordination, interact with the physics and more.
Download: Penumbra: Overture
Slingshot a new game created by and released by couple of Ubuntu users.
Slingshot is a two dimensional, turn based simulation-strategy game set in the gravity fields of several planets. It is a highly addictive game, and never the same from round to round due to its randomly generated playing fields.
It is a deceptively simple game, the goal is to shoot the other spacecraft through the field of planets, but their gravity makes it tricky. The effects of the gravity mean that although it's easy to learn how to play, and to enjoy playing, it could take a lifetime to thoroughly master.
In order to hit your opponent, you can rotate you ship to aim in any direction, and you can change the power with which your projectile is launched - the initial speed at which it flies.
Download : Downloads/Linux - Slingshot
@ Shirish: As u say Sir
But the list won't be complete without adding good games like UT. Quake and all...
Dark Star said:@ Shirish: As u say Sir
Ok, what I was saying is you can add games, and the idea that there are good games in the GPL world. Of course sooner or later commercial games will have to come to linux otherwise they will lose market-share. GNU/Linux is only going to get bigger not smaller. What would be cool is to find games which are good, not mainstream....yet but still provide a whole-some experience. There is lot of development happening in Europe on free GPL games (being socialist communist style ideology helps there) where we are going to see lot of content being happening. Just look at whole lot of stuff for edubuntu which has come from France for instance.
Warsow is a standalone first person shooter for Windows and Linux. It is under the GPL and based on the 3D Engine Qfusion (a modification of Quake 2's engine). It offers eSport oriented FPS, fast-paced gameplay focused on trix (trick jumps) and the art of move. It offers a complete Power-up System including Weak and Strong fire mode for each weapon. The graphics are in a cartoonish style with celshading-like_but_not_Manga style, mixing dark, flashy and dirty textures, matching the action full of fun and speed.
Changes in 0.31:
- Added BattlEye Anti-Cheat Engine, supporting both Windows and Linux (special huge thanks to Sable for his work)
- Added Team auto-balance
- Added possibility to save stats to a file after match has been finished
- Made Riotgun's shot denser, Plasmagun damage upped slightly, EB damage increased, RL splash radius increased/min damage decreased
- Made bots reaction time slower
- Changed CA scoreboard damage-based
- Fixed missing spawn sounds
- Fixed Win32 couldn't rename downloaded pk3 files
- Fixed fatal error on a configstring overflow
- Wdm11 remixed, with brand new textures and theme, and slightly changed other maps
- etc. You'll find final 0.31 changelog here
Home Page:Warsow – A Fast Paced First Person Shooter Game
Download: Warsow / Warsow 0.31 mirrors
ScreenShot: Warsow – A Fast Paced First Person Shooter Game
X-Moto is a 2D motocross platform game where the goal is to complete various levels as fast as possible by collecting all the strawberries. Physics plays an all important role in the gameplay. You need to control your bike to its limits, if you want to have a chance to finish the most difficult challenges.
- Now uses libsqlite, libcurl, sdl_ttf, utf-8
- Translated to: en, sk, fr, no, de, fi, ca, es, pl, ru, it, sv
- Hotseat multiplayer mode
- Code has been cleaned somewhat and bugs have been fixed
- New maintainer is Nicolas Adenis-Lamarre
Download:XMoto
Screenshots :XMoto
"It's been 8 months since the last release and they've done a lot of stuff for this release, so much it's suddenly 250mb which was way past our 177mb goal. This is biggest release ever, to state the obvious
Significant Changes:
- 10 new player models
- 26 new maps
- ce1m7, oa_bases3, dm4ish, dm6ish, and cbctf1 also had several changes
- Bloom (activated by r_bloom 1)
- New announcer voice
- New gibs
- Quake's DM maps converted, from dm1 to dm7
- uses ioquake3 revision 1107
- more menu graphics, i.e. the player model button is actually there!
- lots of other stuff like redone sounds and textures
Download: OpenArena - Files
Home Page :http://openarena.ws/
An Open Source Futuristic Action Flight Simulator Game.
Thunder&Lightning is the new name of a rather old project by Jonas Eschenburg. What started in 1999 as a technology demonstration has become quite an advanced flight simulator. There will be multiple Islands to conquer, each with its own defense strategy. Thunder&Lightning will not be mission oriented, but there will be scripted events for each island. TNL has been released to the public, under the GPL, an Open Source license. While it is already playable, Thunder&Lightning is by no means a finished game.
Changes in this release:
- An aircraft carrier that serves as take-off and landing platform for the Lightning aircraft, capable of self-defense with a deck turret.
- Water rendering: A GLSL shader renders realistic waves on machines with hardware shader support.
- A new cockpit with multi function display.
- AI drones can now take off and land on the carrier after performing their mission.
- Reworked missions that make use of the aircraft carrier and an extended tutorial mission.
- Enhanced flight model.
- Autopackage installation.
- Various bugfixes.
Download: Thunder&Lightning
irrlamb - 3D Physics Game
irrlamb is a 3D game that probably involves a lot of physics and frustrating gameplay.
Changes (version 0.0.4):
- Added level unlocking
- Added high score list
- Added support for constraints/joints
- Added a lose screen
- Added stats tracking
- Added another level
- Hit F12 to take screenshots
- Added more Lua functions
- Added basic replay controls
- Added fonts for various resolutions
- Fixed some compile/scons issues
- Upgraded to GPL version 3
Download: irrlamb - Google Code
Home Page : irrlamb - Google Code
Screenshot: Youtube
Here is a massive on line Game list 
Just for Ubuntu 
hyeah: Alphabetically Game List - Ubuntu Document Storage Facility
Just for Ubuntu hyeah: Alphabetically Game List - Ubuntu Document Storage FacilityDark Star said:Here is a massive on line Game list
been there, seen that :bleh:
"The only thing we require is that you fight for your realm."
Regnum Online is a free MMORPG with clients for both linux and ***dows based systems. There are 3 realms to choose from, if you are familiar with other MMORPGs this term is a bit different than you are used to. Instead of refering to the server you are playin on the term "realm" in Regnum is used to designate which legion or side you are choosing. These are called Alsius, Ignis and Syrtis. There are currently: 9 player characters, hundreds of quests, the ability to capture forts and castles, and beautiful expansive lands to explore.
- Regnum offers 3 realms to choose from.
- 9 fully customizable player characters.
- An ever expanding number of quests.
- The ability to capture forts and castles.
- Expansive lands to explore.
- Glorious graphical environments in DirectX and OpenGL.
- Support for Windows and Linux platforms.
- Community driven development, meaning we develop the game based on players' feedback.
- Premium content is available for enhanced game play.
Regnum has left beta after 5 long years of development. From what I can tell Regnum is still free (correct me if I'm wrong) but they have now implemented paid content/services as well. All current players are being reset >.< but accounts will remain active.
Download : Regnum Online official site
Home Page : Regnum Online official site
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Better graphics for a lot of items. Border graphics improved. Buttons for going up/down in Maps visible again, Help screen does not change font size anymore, Skill selection without pressing mouse button sometimes, Second page for selecting playing piece visible again.
Lost Labyrinth is a roquelike roleplaying computergame with a Zelda like graphics engine licens under GPL. It has very high replayability because everything is created at random.
Relatively short gameplay (between 10-40 Minutes). Very high replayability because everything is created at random! Many different skills to choose from (every player needs another tactic!). No experience gain for killing monsters (only for reaching new levels!). Zelda like graphics and Smooth scrolling. You can be up to 4 players at the same machine. Control with mouse, keyboard and joystick. Online Highscore and more...
Download : Lost Labyrinth ~ The best Roguelike on the Net
Home Page: Lost Labyrinth ~ The best Roguelike on the Net
Frets on Fire is for you to wail on your keyboard with!
Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers.
The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible.
Originally released as an entry to the Assembly 2006 Game Development Competition by Unreal Voodoo, the game has continued to progress at a decent rate, even spawning several mods created by the user base of the game.
Home Page: Frets On Fire
Secret Maryo Chronicles :The Elite of Arcade Games!
A jump-and-run game in the style of Super Mario World. Secret Maryo Chronicles is a two-dimensional, sidescrolling jump-and-run platform game which utilizes the platform independent multimedia library, SDL. It features a built-in level editor which can be used to easily create your own levels.
Download: Maryo Chronicles
Home Page : Maryo Home
Download: Maryo Chronicles
Home Page : Maryo Home
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