Linux Games Ubuntu Downloads Open Source Free

I wrote Cosmic Assault as my little homage to my coming of age in the early 1980s. It started life as one of the tutorials supplied for teaching programmers the fundamentals of pygame and I used that tutorial to hack together a little shoot-em-up game to see how all the components worked together.

One thing led to another, and the program was built on many layers of "Wouldn't it be neat if...", "I wonder what this does..." or "How do I do this..." As a result, this game is no paean to modern software engineering practices. Even though it uses classes, inheritance, and aggregation, the OO misfeatures are so numerous that it is guaranteed to make enterprise Java developers openly weep in their Gang of Four books.

But, in spite of all that (or likely because of it), this game is addictive, mindless fun. Your job is to fly your spacecraft into the unknown and mow down hordes of ruthless enemies in a noble effort to... Oh hell, quit listening to me babble, look at the screenshots, and download and play this bad boy already.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Source requires python with pygame

Up to 4 players, you play a line that gets longer and longer and your goal is to stay alive by not crashing into your own or other lines and trying to crash the other players.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: gtk, python, pygame, libglade??, courier font

Critical Mass (Critter) is an SDL/OpenGL space shoot'em up game. Your world has been infested by an aggressive army of space critters. Overrun and unprepared, your government was unable to defend its precious resources. As a last effort to recapture some of the 'goodies', you have been placed into a tiny spacecraft and sent after them.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

Dangen is a simple-looking vector-graphics shoot 'em up game that attaches importance to accuracy of shooting.
With the combination of the cursor key and the shot button, you can shoot at your side or even at your back. Get the bonus point by hitting the enemy without a miss. You can choose stages of different difficulty.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: libSDL
libSDL_image

This game is similar to Duke Nukem.

Most the basic functionality is in now; you can walk, jump around, collect stuff, open doors with keys, shoot monsters etc. You can download it, try run it, have a look at the source etc, but don't expect to play a proper game or anything. There is also a level editor.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

• SDL
• SDL_mixer

Welcome to the exciting world of DCSquares! This fast-paced puzzle game is now available for linux. Collect all the black squares for points and combos, but watch out for the red ones! Compete with players world-wide in the online high score ladder!

License: free

Additional System Requirements: The Linux version requires glibc 2.1 and a 3D accelerated X server