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Matanza is a multiplayer game (with no hard-coded limit to the number of players) where each player has a ship and attempts to take down all others. All the animations are rendered to ASCII art using algorithms from AALib. The game is a telnet server, players need nothing other than a standard telnet client. Teams mode is supported. Known to work on BeOS, Windows, GNU/Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD.

License: free

Matchball is a little puzzle game written in C++, using the Simple DirectMedia Layer.

You have to click to remove all adjacent balls with the same color and reach as many points as possible.

Matchball supports different ballthemes, sound, fx and levels and a highscoresystem.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf

MathWar is more or less like playing with flash cards, with the exception that there is a computer player who can attempt to answer if the human player is too slow. A game of MathWar consists of a set number of rounds. A round consists of two cards and a mathematical operator (add, subtract, or multiplication). The first player to guess an answer for a round gets that rounds point if the guess is correct. Otherwise, the correct answer is displayed, and no points are awarded.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

You have a bad feeling about this: For only one brief moment you let your attention slip, and suddenly, you find your spaceship heading right into a vast asteroid field. Though it does not seem very dense at the outskirts, your board computer readouts make you doubt you will ever see the other side of it - and did your radar just pick up traces of pirate activity!?
Keep control of your spaceship as you go ever deeper into the asteroid field and the gameplay reaches breakneck speed. Shoot asteroids and containers and collect power-ups, shield energy and special weapons. And last but not least - beware of the pirates!

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

• OpenGL
• libsdl
• libsdl-image
• libopenal
• libexpat
• libpng
• libogg
• libvorbis
• libvorbisfile

MazeRunner is a puzzle game made to be highly extensible but still playable and fun. It includes everything from music to a scripting system to cheats, and it is also open source and actively supported. The current objective is to simply get through all of the levels, but later on in development there will be everything from mini games to bonus levels.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Java (6 for binary, 5 for self-compile)

mChess is a simple and (hopefully) nice cross-platform email chess program. The aim is to be able to play chess with your friends via email using a nice user interface without having a chess board standing in your living room for weeks.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: FLTK 1.x