cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/6819337
Mon 04 December 2023 by R.L. Dane
There’s a lot of talk about gaming in Linux these days, and that’s exciting, because it’s drawing attention to Linux’s capabilities. While the games being spoken of are mostly proprietary (and pretty awful, from a software-freedom perspective), it’s good to see people getting interested in Linux, even when for only pragmatic reasons.
But beyond the attention-grabbing AAA titles, there are many FOSS games worth checking out.
Admittedly, I am not much of a gamer, and never have been. I’m hoping to draw attention to the possibilities of FOSS gaming, but what will follow is hardly exhaustive. But I have tried to gather the names a few FOSS games on Android I’ve enjoyed burning time with, and a few desktop games I’ve heard of or played with occasionally that are worthy of more attention from the gaming community:
https://rldane.space/foss-games-are-actually-pretty-good.html
I got so stuck on Fruity Game for over an hour, before I could even get up off toilet. :'-)
I’ve just installed this from your recommendation and it’s brilliant. I love the amateur graphics, it just adds to the charm.
Yep just can’t stop once you start, but find it dad you get an end game while the fruits are still moving. I think I did ok as a first time.
yes and no
FOSS games are good and fun, but to deliver a AAA game with a near-realistic 3D Graphics and a good several hour-lasting story, you kinda need some funding. I would be all for a concept where a game is open source, but you need to pay for the textures, meshes, voiceovers, in game dialog strings and similar stuff that is not code.
As a student I’m very glad that super tux cart exists. This helped me so much to get through free lessons. It takes a bit of time to get a feeling for the controls, but once you figured it out its great.
Another game worth mentioning is Unciv. A beautiful 2D turn based strategy civilisation development strategy game.
