While I was downloading the point n click adventure game called Lilly Looking Through, I checked the people behind this independent project and saw a guy who worked for the Myst series, an animator and a music composer.
0 A.D., the free and open-source ancient warfare real time strategy game, has just released it’s tenth Alpha which comes with many new features and material.
It’s a plane…It’s a boat…It’s a truck…It’s Rigs of Rods!
Rigs of Rods is one of the best open source simulation projects in existence, with thousands of fans and contributors around the world. The project started as a truck simulator, but evolved into being an advanced physics sandbox. Rigs of Rods gives you the opportunity to get into the cockpit of various aircrafts and helicopters, haul trucks and off-road cars, boats, ships and even tractors.
With only a month away from Euro 2012, things are starting to get extra hot for football fans. While sports is the Linux gaming category with the biggest shortage, there are some fun projects that can offer amusement and fun to Linux users. On this article we will check out the best available football games for the GNU/Linux platform.
Yoda Soccer
License: Open Source
Price: Free
Latest Version/Release Date: 0.76 / January 1, 2011
Yoda Soccer is one of the oldest efforts to bring a nice football game into the world of Linux gaming. It started at the summer of 2002, aiming for the style and gameplay of the famous Sensible World of Soccer. Yoda Soccer goes a step further, offering some features missing from SWoS. If you want to feel the nostalgia of a “classic” football game, then Yoda Soccer is the game to play.
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Awesome Soccer
License: Commercial
Price: 6.99 USD
Latest Version/Release Date: 1.0 / June 10, 2010
Awesome Soccer is the creation of Red27 studios, an independent games development company based in the UK. It may not be the most realistic and sophisticated football game you’ve ever played, but it offers pure gameplay fun to the player. There are national and club teams from all over the world, but you can always create your own team using the Team Editor, Kit Designer etc. Play one of the many national leagues available, or win a cup competition that you created! This game is awesome!
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Slam Soccer 2006
License: Open Source
Price: Free
Latest Version/Release Date: 1.0.3 / July 18, 2006
Slam Soccer is not a new game at all, but it is the funniest sports game you’ll play on linux. I don’t know why this small team of talented developers stopped the development of this fantastic game but it really worths your time no matter what. Slam Soccer offers 80 different teams to play, 2-player mode for pure fun with a friend, commentators, career mode where you start from zero and build your own stadium and much more! Definitely try this one.
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Tux Football
License: Open Source
Price: Free
Latest Version/Release Date: 0.3.1 / April 9, 2012
Tux Football is another Sensible Soccer type football game. The gameplay is designed to be quick, responsive and fun and may remind you of the classic game Kick Off! This game is like having a classic with better-more up to date graphics on your hands. The physics are quite good, and the status of the game is half-finished but very enjoyable. There are a lot of things on the to-do list like transfers, injuries and network play. Nice!
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Master Kick
License: Commercial
Price: 4.95 USD
Latest Version/Release Date: 1.5.4 / March 3, 2009
Master Kick is a virtual table-soccer that offers a complete football match experience with replays, crowd cheering, weather visual effects, different formations to choose from and so much more! This is more of a virtual evolution of the table soccer that will keep you amused for hours.
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Project Football
License: Open Source
Price: Free
Latest Version/Release Date: 0.2.1 / June 2, 2010
Project Football is a football management simulation game which allows you to manage the football club of your dreams. You’ll have to deal with financies, adjust tactics, buy players and watch matches in 3D. So if you are not into playing with the ball at your feet, and you found the above games pointless, maybe this one will make your day!
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Bygfoot Football Manager
License: Open Source
Price: Free
Latest Version/Release Date: 2.3.2 / July 8, 2009
And if you want something simpler than Project Football then Bygfoot is the answer for you. Bygfoot allows you to manage a team by training the players, buying and selling them, contracting loans, maintaining the stadium, etc. You can be promoted or relegated, even become a champion if you’re a skillful manager. The game is deliberately kept simple and you only have to keep one eye at your players and another at your stadium.
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Happy scoring weekend to everyone!
A new Humble Indie Bundle is out and this time it is quite adventurous! The games included are the well known from the past Machinarium and Samorost 2, plus the new Amanita design studios creation named Botanicula. Those of you who will pay more than the average, will get the movie Kooky directed by Jan Sverak, and the magnificent Windosill - a point and click puzzle game with toy like graphics and design. This week I laid hands on Botanicula which is the highlight of this bundle, so I prepared a brief review of this great game.
One of the biggest advantages of the open source world is the ability to freely fork whatever you want, with no limitations on what you are going to make out of it.
The Great Jitters: Pudding Panic is a unique action puzzle game developed by the Berlin-based indie game developers team called Kunst-Stoff GmbH. This game has already received many praising critics and awards for a variety of things and platforms. Time to get our hands on the linux version, and see why this game has caused so much positive hum around it.
Trine 2 is the continuation of the magnificent side-scrolling puzzle platform adventure game named Trine. This game is one of the best games that you’ll see this year for the linux platform, and it surely is one of the most unforgetable stories that you’ll “witness” in front of your computer screen. Thanks to the kind people at Frozenbyte, I had the chance to play and evaluate a “beta” linux version of the game this week, so note that some technical problems or unpleasing details mentioned on this article, will not be present on the final version hopefully.
Another week comes to an end, another weekend arrives with plenty of free time to spent hopefully. 2 new great games for the linux platform (and not only) seek for your attention this weekend. The one is threatening to consume your brain’s gray matter, and the other is promising to give you a ride you’ll never forget. Let’s check them out!
Linux Games are going main stream now. Wasteland 2 follows the greatly successful 1988 version of the role playing game, by the same name. Wasteland follows the success of Double Fine Adventure developed by game producer of Brian Fargo of InXile Entertainment.
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