Awale or Oware is a game of great antiquity, and has been played around
the world in various forms for millenia. Currently it is the official
board game of Africa.
Wikipedia Oware
Member of the Mancala family of board games. There are many variants
to the rules of this game, which is for two players. This version is
between a player and the computer.
Wikipedia Mancala
Crrcsim is a model-airplane flight simulation program. Using it,
you can learn how to fly model aircraft, test new aircraft designs,
and improve your skills by practicing on your computer.
It rules! The flight model is very realistic. The flight model
parameters are calculated based on a 3D representation of the
aircraft. Stalls are properly modelled as well. Model control is
possible with your own rc transmitter, or any input device such as
joystick, mouse, keyboard.
PySpaceWar
Two ships duel in a gravity field. Gravity doesn't affect
the ships themselves (which have spanking new anti-gravity
devices), but it affects missiles launced by the ships.
You can play against the computer, or two players can play
with one keyboard. There is also a Gravity Wars mode, where
the two ships do not move, and the players repeatedly
specify the direction and velocity of their missiles.
Reaper Bot is a Quake 1 modification that adds bot support to the game.
Things the Reaper can do, that you cannot include:
- Ability to grab the rocket or grenade launcher without being physically
near it.
- Faster rate of fire. From rockets to nails the Reaper has you beat on
quantity, so you better be focusing on quality shots.
- Perfect aim. A Reaper bot will never miss its target when firing the
shotgun.
This is a modification for Quake II which adds lights and lots of effects
for the weapons shots.
This mod is intended to play it with Quake2Max supported binaries because
the lights and effects are better saw compared to original Quake2 binaries.
This mod introduces a lot of new commands, scanner, flashlight, decoys,
defense laser, chasecam, hook, etc. Some keys in the autoexec.cfg are set
by default.
Single player game is also playable with this mod.
ScummVM is an 'Virtual Machine' for playing several classic graphical
point-and-click adventure games developed by LucasArts, Revolution
and Adventure Soft.
See http://www.scummvm.org/compatibility.php for a full list of Games.
The following freewared games are available via ports at the time of writing:
Beneath a Steel Sky: games/bass
Flight of the Amazon Queen: games/fotaq
-Alex Trull (alexander@trull.com)
Rescue! Max is an Action Adventure in Space written in java.
It is based on an old mac game called Rescue! by Tom Spreen.
A 2D space real-time, action/strategy game. You are in control of a ship that
you fly around space fighting enemies and making friends on your way.
The main objective is to rescue people from planets and take them to star bases.
BZFlag is a free online multiplayer 3D tank battle game. The name
originates from "Battle Zone Capture The Flag". It runs on Windows,
Mac OSX, Linux, BSD, and other platforms. It was one of the most
popular games ever on Silicon Graphics machines and continues to
be developed and improved to this day.
At its heart, the game is a 3D first person tank simulation where
opposing teams battle for dominance.
Simsu is a basic Sudoku game. You can switch between filling in notes
(pencil mode), or filling in answers (pen mode).
To make it easier to see where to place numbers, you can highlight
all instances of a number. You can also check your answers for
correctness while playing. The game stores your current notes and
answers, so that you can pick up where you left off the next time you
play.
Tesseract is a first-person shooter game focused on instagib deathmatch
and capture-the-flag gameplay as well as cooperative in-game map editing.
Tesseract provides a unique open-source engine derived from Cube 2
Sauerbraten technology but with upgraded modern rendering techniques.
The new rendering features include fully dynamic omnidirectional
shadows, global illumination, HDR lighting, deferred shading,
morphological/temporal/multisample anti-aliasing, and much more.