[Techtalk] wanted: Linux gamez

[Andrea Landaker]

> Anyone out there in linuxchix land playing games on Linux? Any kind at all,
> online multi-player, all alone on an non-connected machine, a hacked
> XBox.... what games, and where do you find them?

Ooh, games!  One of my favorite topics . . .

My hubby and I have been playing Neverwinter Nights together on our LAN -- 
that's a lot of fun, especially since there's lots of great fan-made modules.  
I also have been playing Slime Forest Adventures (http://www.lrnj.com) to 
help me learn Japanese (it's an NES-style RPG quiz game).  

Whenever the Nethack tournament (http://nethack.devnull.net) comes around 
(November of every year), I like to play that (there's also nice GUIs, such 
as Falcon's Eye and QTNethack if you're not a fan of ASCII graphics).  

Frozenbubble is good for a few minutes of puzzling (it includes a level editor 
now, which is nice), and PowerManga (has nothing to do with Japanese comics) 
is a fun arcade-style spaceship game.  

Sometimes I get into Freeciv mood and play that for a while, though I tend to 
lose . . . 

Armegatron is a fun Tron game with 3D graphics that I like, especially if you 
play it multiplayer.

FlightGear is a flight simulator (not really a game yet), but it's fun to play 
around with.

Then, there's always Solitaire and Mahjongg...

I think one great way to find games is to look in your distributions RPM/APT 
repository under "Games".  (aptitude for Debian, rpmdrake for Mandrake)  Just 
install a bunch and try them.  :-)

-- 
Andrea Landaker
http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/