![]() You can't make Weapons of Mass Destruction like you can in Stratagus", "Some of the weirdest sound effects you've ever heard!" "Game where you select people and you know things they can do", "Pretty fun game in which you can control all sorts of units and make them go off and kill guys. The only pity is that there's apparently no-way to save per-user game scenarios (I had to hack a common scenario location with wide-open permissions for the kids to use this-I'm not entirely sure if it works right). "Can you add music?", "Why don't villages act like they have people in them?" FreeCraft Freecraft has a nice level editor. What would you like to say to the developers? "You can recruit teams and attack other teams", "You can edit how much gold you have, what kind of group, and you can 'level up'", "Realistic looking weird fantasy creatures" (whatever that means). (Alan Berg and his son Nelson have already written a nice article about Wesnoth in FSM#11, which has some screenshots). Flying a ballistic vehicle through all kinds of obstacles-how could a space fan refuse? CommentsĪfterwards, I asked them together to offer some comment on each of the top-mentioned games: Wesnoth The "Mother of all Gravity Games" (MOAGG) is a pretty complete extension of what I used to play as "Thrust". Interactive fiction, whether textual or graphical, has long been my favorite game genre, though I have less time for involved games than I used to (I haven't gotten very far in Amazon Queen, but it's fun so far). Flight of the Amazon Queen is a SCUMMVM graphic adventure game that was published some years back and recently released as free software. *Flight of the Amazon Queen, a commercial SCUMMVM game donated to the digital commons by its developers, and now part of the Debian distribution. We also agreed on a number of "honorable mention" games that we all enjoy playing, even though they didn't make our "Top 5" lists: It's a simple drawing program with a huge stamp library and sound-effects that play when you draw. It's not strictly-speaking a game, but Tux Paint is a terrific creative play toy. Planet Penguin Racer(formerly Tux Racer) is still one of the 'coolest' free software games. She couldn't rate them, of course, but my 3-yr old daughter, Ariel enjoys Planet Penguin Racer (formerly Tux Racer), Tux Paint, and the "Screen hacks" (also known as "screen savers", although it's been a long time since you actually needed these to save your screen from burn-in). One of the smoothest playing versions, with nice graphics (which are not hard to customize). People interested in a greater challenge might want to try 'Four Winds' or 'Onsoo'. It's mindlessly simple, but I find it relaxing. I particularly like this simple Hanafuda game, called 'Pagoda'. Terry's Favorites PySol has one of the most complete sets of solitaire card games I've seen. Sylvan, 10 yrs old, gave me the following ratings: Then I asked them to rate each of these games on four criteria: "gameplay", "music", "art", and "editability" on a 0-5 scale (5 being a perfect score). Ratingsįirst of all, I asked each of my sons to tell me what their "top 5" games would be. ![]() ![]() (Screenshots!) Neverball has excellent 3D OpenGL graphics and beautifully composed sound engineering. Afterwards, I decided to figure out my own favorites, and my daughter's (she's too little to answer for herself, but it's not hard to figure out what she likes to play with). So, it seemed like a pretty natural thing to ask them, as the local expert game testers, what they liked the most. ![]() My sons play these things for hours at a time, and spend more hours creating new game levels for them (a favorite activity, which free software games are particularly suited to, since level editors are almost always included). Midsummer seems like a perfect day for a posting on GNU/Linux games! I decided to talk to my family about their favorites. ![]()
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