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Fedora Games WishList

  • AmiGoGtp - Text based (GTP) Go player. Best together with GoGui.
  • aleph one - GPL first person shooter, full data can be freely (gratis) downloaded (use autodownloader)
  • Blackvoxel - a new sandbox game based on a voxel engine
  • CRRCsim - rc model flight simulator (GPL)
  • Doom3 - now opensourced! (GPLv3)
  • Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - very popular modern roguelike game. (There's a previous attempt at packaging this from a few years back: Bug 570803)
  • fgrun - A graphical frontend to run FlightGear Flight Simulator. srpm spec (builds in mock in F12 x86_64)
  • freeorion - moo rewrite
  • Fuego - Text based (GTP) Go player using Monte-Carlo tree search. Best together with GoGui.
  • GoGui is a graphical user interface to programs that play the board game Go and support the Go Text Protocol, such as gnugo and Fuego.
  • levelhead - Augmented Reality logic game using webcam and printed out cubes. Check out video: youtube
  • Nikki and the Robots - Cute non-violent gameplay with wall-jumping and remote robot controlling
  • oolite - elite remake - under review
  • Pachi - Strong text based (GTP) Go player. Best together with GoGui.
  • PainTown - a free and open source 2-d fighting game
    • propably not packable cause of heavy legal issues (Review)
  • Pathological - Marble Puzzle Game
  • pax-britannica - one-button real-time strategy game
  • Pioneer - space adventure game. Under GPL v3 and CC-BY-SA; seems packageable. (Packed for Fedora >= 24)
  • Quake 3 based games that uses bundles a early version of the Xreal engine
  • Race into Space - full opensource release of a once closed source game, including vorbis sounds / music and theora videos!
  • Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is a collection of one-player puzzle games.
  • tyrquake - Conservative Quake 1 engine (initial SRPM, needs desktop entry/icon, integration with autodownloader for data files)
  • UFO2000 is free and opensource turn based tactical squad simulation multiplayer game.
  • Unknown Horizons Unknown Horizons is a 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy. (The game engine "FIFE" is already in fedora, but it is useless, because the clients are shiping nonfree content)
  • Unvanquished - Fork of Tremulous that is getting active development. Probably requires this NaCl issue to be resolved first... and also depends on librocket (unpackaged).
  • Vacuum - Vacuum Magic is a fast-paced action game. The point of the game is using your magical vacuum field to collect food and defend against monsters. Food and certain monsters can also be spat out and used as a projectile against other monsters. (Dead project ? )
  • Xreal is baseed on Quake 3. Just a engine for now
  • danger from the deep 3d submarine simulation
  • openterritory xreal / rtcw:et fork
  • ryzom free 3d mmorpg client/server
  • Zero-K free, multiplatform, open-source RTS game based on the Spring engine
  • Warsow Warsow is set in a futuristic cartoonish world where rocketlauncher-wielding pigs and lasergun-carrying cyberpunks roam the streets. It is a completely free, fast-paced first-person shooter
  • Wyrmsun A strategy game which features elements of mythology, history and fiction.
  • Tales of Maj'Eyal Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME) is a free, open source roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
  • Violetland In this game the player should help a girl by name of Violet to struggle with hordes of monsters. For this purpose the various weapon, and also the special abilities of the heroine which are opening with experience can be used. In game there are elements of RPG in the form of strength-agility-vitality and derivatives. Also there is an unique feature: dynamic change of day and night.
  • Jag Simple puzzle game
  • Zero Ballistics Zero Ballistics is a unique blend of first person shooter and tank combat, focusing on multiplayer gaming exclusively.
  • PipeWalker This is a puzzle game in which you need to combine the components into a single circuit:connect all computers to a network server, bring water to the taps, etc.
  • TripleA TripleA is a turn based strategy game and board game engine, similar to Axis & Allies or Risk. Free to play online
  • Blood Frontier Blood Frontier was a single-player and multi-player first-person shooter game, built as a total conversion of Cube Engine 2 (Sauerbraten).
  • Rigs of Rods Rigs of Rods is a sandbox-style vehicle simulator.
  • Micropolis Micropolis is one of the oldest and grandest of city simulation games.
  • MegaMek MegaMek is an unofficial, online version of the Classic BattleTech board game. MegaMek is open source, free software. It is licenced under the GPL.
  • Zod Zod Engine is a remake of the 1996 classic game by Bitmap Brothers called Z. Z is a capture the flag style RTS. In this game you command robots and vehicles with the purpose of destroying the enemy's fort.
  • Xmahjongg Xmahjongg is a simple implementation of the popular solitaire Mah Jongg game. The object is to remove all 144 tiles from the playing area by matching them two at a time. Xmahjongg is the classical version with little in the way of requirements and enough aesthetical and gameplay features to provide hours and hours of fun.
  • Spring 1944 Spring:1944 is a WWII themed game based on the open source Spring Engine. Our goal is to create four fully functional sides (US, Germany, USSR, Britain) with period-accurate units and strengths. Realism is a primary design goal, second only to creating a game that is fun and accessible to play.
  • Freeminer Freeminer is a Minecraft-inspired sandbox game.
  • Terminal Overload Free and open-source first person shooter / spiritual successor to Revenge Of The Cats: Ethernet

Games no longer packaged

  • poker2d - 2-D poker client for poker-network servers
  • poker3d - OpenGL poker client to play on a poker-network server

Games with Dead upstream or other issues

The packaging of the following games is not recommended. The packager should be able to fix any reported bugs. In some cases upstreaming them may not possible so a lot of downstream patches will have to be included in the package, revival or forks of the projects are other options.


  • automaniac - 3d car deathmatch game
    • Last Release: August 2006
    • Last Commit: July 2008
  • Battles of Antargis - goodlooking free RTS Upstream is not dead, but it's not very active
    • Last Release: December 2007
    • Last Commit: July 2009
  • Bloodmasters - Arcade, oldschool multiplayer and bloodshed.That's what the game Bloodmasters is about. Play with friends on your LAN or online and experience this oldschool top-down shooter. The game supports Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture The Flag and Scavenger game modes. The game is completely freeware and without ads, spyware or other unwanted garbage.
    • Last Release: February 2008
    • Last Commit: No public VCS
  • Biniax-2 puzzle game with higly original game mechanics (will need to be patched to look for datas elsewhere than beside the binary, preliminary spec here, feel free to grab)
    • Last Release: v1.30 released in May 2009
    • Last Commit: No public VCS
  • brickshooter - puzzle game
    • Last Release: May 2008
    • Last Commit: No public VCS
  • ClanShip - battleship game (source)
    • Dead Upstream
  • Dungeonhack - Ambitious RPG that never got past a minimal demo state.
    • Dead Upstream
  • Dave Gnukem - platform game inspired by Duke Nukem 1 (might be too similar)
    • Last Release: August 2004
    • Is this fully GPLv2+ and only?
  • gillo is a two player game in a 3D ellipsoid playground
    • Last Release: July 2005
  • Go Ollie Nice platform game using TuxCap
    • Last Release: June 2009 - Upstream active
    • Last Commit: No public VCS
    • May not compile on x86_64 No longer true. It compile fine under x64_64 with TuxCap 1.4.0.
  • Kraptor is a classic shoot 'em up scroller game, where you must fight against tons of bad dudes (will need to be rebranded, raptor is a trademark for a very similar game).
    • Last Release: April 2004
  • Operation Citadel - Operation Citadel is a WWII, turn based platoon, company level war game on the Eastern Front. The game is somewhere in between CLose Combat® and Steel Panthers®.
    • Last Release: Unknown. Seems old
    • Last Commit: No public VCS
    • source is distribute as MSVC 6.0 project, I guess it will not compile, upstream seems dead
  • Open Quartz Free GPL data combined with the Quake 1 GPL engine
    • Last Release: Aug 2004
  • Open Raider. Not sure if it'd qualify, but it's a Tomb Raider clone.
    • Last Commit: 2004
  • Peg Solitaire - A simple peg-jumping game similar to Hi-Q. No idea if Hi-Q has trademark protection.
    • Last Release: Jan 2008
  • Race - 3D top view racing game
    • Last Release: Jan 2003
  • VoR - Dodge rocks until you die. "it's fast-paced, difficult and addictive." -- Linux Format
    • Deesn't seem active I may be wrong


References

* http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Suggested