Linux Games Ubuntu Downloads Open Source Free

Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: 128 MB of RAM, a fairly fast OpenGL graphics card (shader support not necessary, antialiasing support recommended)

GL-117 is an OpenGL- and SDL-based action flight simulator written in C++. It provides a random terrain generator, lighting effects, sounds, and joystick support.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

• OpenGL
• GLU
• GLUT
• SDL (recommended)
• SDL_mixer (recommended)

glAnts is a combination game and simulation loosely based on Battlezone or SpectreVR. It supports third and first person views. Drive your mech and kill the bots. Windows and Linux versions are available.

License: free

A 3D clone of the arcade classic 'Asteroids' coded in C using OpenGL and SDL. Features sound effects, menu system, highscore table, fuel drops and you can 'fly' around in outerspace blowing up chunks of spinning space rock with a high power dual plasma cannon until you get smashed to pieces, run out of fuel or save the earth from being pulverised!

License: free

Additional System Requirements: SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, OpenGL

Elite was a space combat/trading game on c64 and amiga. It can be seen as the precessor of Wing Commander Privateer. Very Popular game these days ! glElite is the first game written with the help of the Teddy graphics library from which it has lately been seperated.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: SDL SDL_image SDL_mixer libjpeg libpng libz

This program is an attempt to emobdy the rules that are found in artificial life. artificial life is a subset of artificial intelligence.

Artificial Life is the representation of biological phenomenon on the computer. A well known field of this is "Cellular Automata". This is basically just the simulation of cells. They live, they reproduce, they move, and they die. A good simulation that embodies this is "Conway's Game of Life".

This program is similiar to "Conway's Game of Life" but yet it is very different. It takes "Conway's Game of Life" and applies it to a society (human society). This means there is a very different (and much larger) ruleset than in the original game. Things need to be taken into account such as the terrain, age, sex, culture, movement, etc.

Artificial Society is a new term that was given to this new field. This program is an "Artifical Society" program. The rules are placed in the program (and are somewhat customizable). You then observe trends of what occurs (how the animals on the terrain move, for example). You can also find information on the individual animals or watch specific trends such as "wealth distribution". It is a bottom-up approach to anthropology. You place the rules and watch the trends and structures emerge.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: GNOME Libraries LibGlade