Open-Source Games

[laura_seabrook]

Found a new list of open source games while looking for a "first person" racing game.

It had ones I've seen and tried before, like FlightGear Flight Simulator, LBreakout2, and TrackBalls. There's lots more that I'm not familiar with though, like Torcs (a 3D car racing simulation where you don't drive), Spice Trade (where you play the role of an Arab Trader in the 14th century and colonise Europe!), and OpenTTD (a Transport Tycoon Clone). Strangest are the Worminator and Unmanned Lunar Expedition (I'll leave you to figure out what they're about).

 

 

Comments

[rashelleym.livejournal.com]

I mostly don't like how "gaming" makes me feel, frankly. Sometimes even lbreakout irritates me beyond words ("what a worthless and wonderful game!!!")

Currently I'm enjoying Kbounce (though I'm not using KDE, oddly) and SameGnome. I'd be highly amused and at the same time slightly interested (oddly) to discover if a game called "SameGnome" could possibly be compatible with a proprietary operating system.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

In that case, you might be interested in Neverball (http://icculus.org/neverball/) and Trackballs (http://trackballs.sourceforge.net/)!

[rashelleym.livejournal.com]

Both apparently have time limits. Which reminds me...

4m 32s with one restart.
3m 8s
2m 16s

Three successive games of FreeCell. Decided to do a restart on the first one (normally simply "undo last move" successively back to the last major decision-place).