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Follow our Hero Tux the Penguin in a quest for eight golden herring.

Game is in full 3rd person perspective, It's written in OpenGL - and ports to several other OS's.

Initial release has only a handful of playable levels - but it's all OpenSourced under GPL and hopefully enough people will want to help with the development to turn this into something very special.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

• You'll NEED a 3D accelerator.
• A six button gamepad is recommended but a two-button joystick or just the mouse will do at a pinch.
• The PLIB >= 1.4.0 library

A top view shooting game that lets you play the OS battle. You can choose your champion to be either the Tux or Clippy mascot.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Runs on x86 linux only. Requires libsdl.

TuxMath is a math practice game for elementary-level children. Comets are falling from the sky, and Tux must solve their math equations to shoot them before they destroy his cities.

License: free

Tux-n-Run is a 2D platform jump-n-run shooter. Basically you play as Tux and jump around. The game is not yet fully playable, however you are able to move around and jump a lot. It's built in C++ using the SDL library for graphics. Check the website for project status.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: The SDL Library.

Each player controls a tux on a screen-sized playing arena shown from above, with obstacles, and tries to shoot the other player.
Similar to czech game Bulanci.

License: free

Boulder Dash was a wide spread game for different plattforms and first released about 1984. It is an arcade / puzzle like game in which you have to gather diamonds while defending against enemies and solving other problems.

This is a remake that utilizes SDL and was primarily developed for Linux. One goal of the remake was to catch the feeling and gameplay of the original game.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: libSDL