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KTuberling is a "potato editor" game intended for small children and adults who remain young at heart. The game has no winner; the only purpose is to make the funniest faces you can.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Qt4, kdelibs4, libkdegames4

Little Wizard is a development environment for children. It is intended to be used by primary school children to learn about the main elements of real computer languages. Using only the mouse, children can explore programming concepts such as variables, expressions, loops, conditions, and logical blocks. Every element of the language is represented by an intuitive icon, making it easy to learn. Little Wizard works under Linux and Windows 2000/XP.

This software may be freely copied, modified, and redistributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License

License: free

Additional System Requirements: GTK (version 2.4 or higher)

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:

"This game pack a wonderful collection of four brain twisters, including Mosaic, Builder, Pair and Jigsaw. While being amazingly addictive and fun to play, these games can be used to improve your child's memory, brainpower, thinking and reaction. Five difficulty levels from normal to obscene plus the timer mean that the challenge will never run away. Joyful music and brightly-colored visuals maximize the excitement from the gameplay." [Viewizard]

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Runtime dependencies:
libSDL (ver 1.2.6+), libsdl-image (ver 1.2.4+), libsdl-mixer (ver 1.2.6+), libogg (ver 1.1+), libvorbis (ver 1.1+), libvorbisfile (ver 1.1+), libjpeg (ver 6b+). Requirements: Linux OS with 2.6+ kernel. CPU 300+ MHz, 64 MB RAM, 3D acceleration video card with OpenGL, mouse. Recommended: sound card.

Multiplication, addition, and subtraction with configurability.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: PyGame, wxPython

Platinum Arts Sandbox is Educational Software that enables kids to design their own 3D worlds quickly and easily. Through the program kids can make their own mazes, castles, forts, cities, etc in minutes. Kids are also a part of the world when they are creating it, so they can watch the results of their changes as they are happening. The main mission of the project will be to add more features and ways for the children to add their own custom content and to make it as easy as possible for them to do so. Also Platinum Arts will be providing custom content such as mazes, playgrounds, forts, jumping levels, forests and natural terrains to explore, etc.

The project is to remain open source and free so that developers and kids can help add new content and features to help make Platinum Arts Sandbox the most fun and easy world creation tool possible. Platinum Arts Sandbox will be easy enough for kids to use but also powerful enough for full game projects.

Main Feature List:
• The ability to map edit in game in real time and cooperatively with other people.
• The ability to immediately play with and interact with map editing changes
• Several custom maps that will feature slides, jumping levels, mazes, amusement park rides, etc
• The pursuit of making it as easy as possible to add map features and content. Also the addition of new entities to add even more features and capabilities.

For the current features being worked on please check the forums

Upcoming Features, a list I hope and want to have in:
• A tutorial video
• Audio tutorials
• Vehicles
• New models
• A way to scroll through the models much like how you can already scroll through the textures and easily add new models such as trees, plants, and other objects
• New maps
• New entities. I really want to create a "move" entity so players can make moveable platforms, rollercoasters, etc.
• Working water needs to be added.
• Any other features I can think of to make the creation process as easy as possible.

Any new members and/or contributors would be more than welcome! Please sign up in the forum!

I want to give a big thanks to Wouter van Oortmerssen who is the creator of the Cube 2 engine which powers Platinum Arts Sandbox. Also a big thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Cube 2 project and made it the great engine that it is. Take care and enjoy the program. Please let me know what you think!
-mike

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Needs to be compiled for linux using the included makefile