sentientgames group

"Smokin' Guns is intended to be a semi-realistic simulation of the "Old West's" great atmosphere & was developed on Id Software's Quake III Arena Engine." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

What are the features or style lacking in current Linux games compared to something like COD? There are several fun and good-looking goods including Saurbrauten, Smokin Guns, and Alien Arena. Maybe there is a good military style FPS available too? - Mike Chelen

"The gamers edition of Ultimate Edition 2.8 is based on Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" and features 27 pre-installed games, including the Warzone 2100 real-time strategy game, Grid Wars 2 (similar to Geometry Wars), the Urban Terror first person shooter and Armagetronad, a 3D Tron Clone. Several card and board games are also provided in Vgacard games (4 card games) and Gtkboard games (32 board games). The release includes a new repository that provides access to an additional 48 games – many of these games are not available from Ubuntu's standard repositories." - Mike Chelen

"Add ppa:timo-wingender/ppa to your system's Software Sources" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"The Quake II GWT port brings the 3d gaming experience of Quake II to the browser. In the port, we use WebGL, the Canvas API, HTML 5 <audio> elements, the local storage API, and WebSockets to demonstrate the possibilities of pure web applications in modern browsers such as Safari and Chrome. The port is based on the Jake2 project, compiled to Javascript using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Jake 2 is a Java port of the original Quake II source code, which was open sourced by id software." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"Historically based Real Time Strategy game focusing on the years 500 B.C. to 500 A.D. It is a war/economy strategy game allowing you to recreate or rewrite the ancient history of western civilisations." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"The image is autogenerated with the bellow description using the command fdp from the Graphviz package." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

#freegamer on irc.freenode.net http://webchat.freenode.net/... - sentientgames

#OpenGameArt on irc.freenode.net http://webchat.freenode.net/... - Mike Chelen

"This page contains newer or experimental charts, that may not be as frequently updated, and might be low on formatting quality or annotations. There may also be duplicates or variations of the main charts. Charts will come and go off this page as I fiddle with them." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

The 60-day logins chart is probably the best for gauging long term trends, seems to show a few peaks and troughs. - Mike Chelen

"Productivity games are a sub-category of serious games designed to improve the productivity and morale of people doing "regular work"." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"Unknown Horizons is a FREE and open-source, real-time 2D strategy game for Windows and Linux. The game emphasis on economy and city building: Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy. Unknown Horizons is loosely oriented on Sunflowers Anno series however not a clone of these comercial games nor an engine to play the original content." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

you could always play a city builder game of OpenTTD where you have to build the transport infrastructure and supply the needed materials to get your town to grow - alphaxion

"Smokin' Guns is intended to be a semi-realistic simulation of the "Old West's" great atmosphere & was developed on Id Software's Quake III Arena Engine." - sentientgames from Bookmarklet

"Phun is an educational, entertaining and somewhat addictive piece of software for designing and exploring 2D multi-physics simulations in a cartoony fashion." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

really addicting, could spend hours playing with springs, motors, and water simulation - Mike Chelen

"Grid Wars2 is basically a PC version of the popular Xbox 360 game, Geometry Wars. Made by Mark Incitti, this release features less special effects compared to the original but also new controls to cater for players who do not own a dual analog joypad." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

fast paced fun, playing with mouse is fine - Mike Chelen

"Ubuntu gaming made easy" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

so many games ^_^ - Mike Chelen

firefox is confused about the apt urls, the packages install fine from command line though - Mike Chelen

"In this game, you control a squirrel with the keyboard and, if you win an object, you can then add it with the mouse." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

fun, just can't get past the second challenge! - Mike Chelen