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Free games are computer games assembled out of free software and open content. Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, is software which can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restriction. ...
Open content, coined by analogy with open source, (though technically it is actually share-alike) describes any kind of creative work including articles, pictures, audio, and video that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying of the information. ...
All these titles are free software that are under a license such as the GNU General Public License or other similar licenses. Because the source code is available and modifications can be freely (re)distributed, most of these titles will run on many platforms. Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, is software which can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restriction. ...
The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is the most popular free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ...
For freely available games without a public license, see List of freeware games. Freeware refers to software that can be used, downloaded, or distributed free of charge. ...
List of free game software
0-9 - 0 A.D. is a multi-platform RTS currently being developed by Wildfire Games, taking place between 500 BC and 500 AD.
0 A.D. is one of the two projects Wildfire Games is working on. ...
RTS may refer to: Ryan Copley, A super awesome guy Jacob Fischer, A . ...
Wildfire Games (formerly WildFire Studios) is an international interactive entertainment company established in January 2001 that is notable for the development and production of the highly acclaimed modpack for Age of Empires II, Rome at War. ...
A - Ace of Penguins is a set of solitaire games (freecell, mastermind, minesweeper, solitaire etc.) for Unix/Linux/X written by DJ Delorie Homepage
- Advanced Strategic Command is a turn based strategy based on the Bluebyte Battle Isle series. Homepage
- Arianne is an open source MMORPG in development and a framework to develop new online games.
- Armagetron is a multiplayer, 3D Tron lightcycle racing game.
- Atlantik is a multiplayer clone of Monopoly, in which players can pick some of their own rules and use different and uncommon boards.
- Avanor is an open source roguelike game.
Blue Byte Software is a developer of computer games based in Düsseldorf, Germany. ...
This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, tone, style, and voice). ...
Armagetron Advanced running in windowed mode. ...
Tron is a 1982 Walt Disney Productions science fiction movie starring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (and his counterpart inside the electronic world, Clu), Bruce Boxleitner as Alan Bradley (and Tron), Cindy Morgan as Lora Baines(and Yori) and Dan Shor as Ram. ...
Atlantik is an open source computer game clone of the classic board game Monopoly. ...
Monopoly is one of the best-selling commercial board games in the world. ...
Avanor is yet another roguelike game. ...
A roguelike is a computer game that borrows some of the elements of another computer game, 1980s Rogue. ...
B - Bird Park Tycoon a 2D isometric open source game where the player gets to design and manage their own Bird Park. Similar to games such as Zoo Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Battle for Wesnoth is a cross platform, turn based strategy computer game programmed in C++. The game is free software licensed under the GNU GPL. It runs on AmigaOS 4, BeOS, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Windows. ...
Beats of Rage Beats of Rage is a homebrew freeware video game made by Senile Team and inspired by the classic SEGA Streets of Rage game. ...
Streets of Rage (known in Japan as Bare Knuckle) was a popular beat em up series developed by Sega. ...
Blockland is a non-competitive, multiplayer, freeware computer game built on the Torque Game Engine in which you build with interconnecting LEGO-type bricks to construct anything you desire in a virtual online world. ...
From the Boson website: Boson is an open source OpenGL real-time strategy computer game programmed in C++, with the feeling of Command & Conquer or StarCraft. ...
OpenGl official logo OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a specification defining a cross-language cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 3D computer graphics (and 2D computer graphics as well). ...
Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
Strategy games are typically board games, video or computer games with the players decision-making skills having a high significance in determining the outcome. ...
Command & Conquer is a real-time strategy series of computer games released by the game developer Westwood Studios, now a part of Electronic Arts. ...
StarCraft (SC) is a real-time strategy computer game by Blizzard Entertainment. ...
Wikibooks has more about this subject: Guide to UNIX Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ...
Tux is the official Linux mascot. ...
The neutrality of this article is disputed. ...
Qt or QT may stand for: QuickTime a multimedia technology from Apple Computer A quart, a measure of volume within traditional systems of units, equal to 2 pints A quarter, a unit of mass in Imperial units, equal to 2 stones or a quarter of a long hundredweight; one quarter...
The kdegames packages contain games written for the K Desktop Environment (or KDE). ...
Bygfoot is a open source football (a. ...
Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
BZFlag (an abbreviation for Battle Zone capture the Flag) is an open-source OpenGL multiplayer 3D tank battle game, with development led by Tim Riker. ...
C Scorched Earth was a popular shareware computer game from the PC-DOS era, originally written by Wendell Hicken, in which tanks do turn-based battle in two-dimensional terrain, with each player adjusting the angle and power of his or her tank turret before each shot. ...
ClanBomber is a free (GPL-licensed) multiplayer computer game developed using ClanLib, a free, multi-platform C++ software development kit designed for games. ...
Crack Attack! is a free OpenGL games based on Tetris Attack for the Super Nintendo. ...
OpenGl official logo OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a specification defining a cross-language cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 3D computer graphics (and 2D computer graphics as well). ...
Tetris is a puzzle game invented by Alexey Pazhitnov (last name sometimes transliterated Pajitnov) in 1985, while he was working for the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia during the days of the Soviet Union. ...
Crimson Fields is an open source turn-based strategy war game inspired by Battle Isle. ...
Crossfire Client 1. ...
Cuyo screenshot of the level The Four Seasons (click image for details) Cuyo is a Tetris_style puzzle game for up to two players. ...
Puyo Puyo is a computer puzzle game made in 1991 by Compile. ...
D The village of Stoneglow at night (Linux) Daimonin is an open source, multiplayer online computer role-playing game that is based on Crossfire. ...
DarwinBots screenshot DarwinBots is an artificial life simulator, providing a virtual environment in which a number of agents -called bots - interact, fight for resources, and eventually reproduce. ...
Artificial life, also known as alife or a-life, is the study of life through the use of human_made analogs of living systems. ...
Devet is a Puzzle game, invented by Jordan Tuzsuzov in 2002. ...
Dink Smallwood is a humorous computer role-playing game. ...
The Legend of Zelda series (often shortened to just Zelda or LoZ), first published on February 21, 1986 by Nintendo, is a series of video games created by the celebrated game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. ...
A first-person shooter (FPS) is a computer or video game where the players on-screen view of the game world simulates that of the character, and there is some element of shooting involved. ...
Dnafight is a programming game in which bacterials fight aggainst each other. ...
A programming game is a computer game, where the player has no direct influence on the course of the game. ...
Seed7 is a general-purpose programming language designed by Thomas Mertes. ...
E - Enigma, an Oxyd clone where the player has to maneuver a marble around a "landscape" to touch matching pairs of "Oxyd"-stones.
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Oxyd is a computer puzzle game released for the Amiga, Atari, Macintosh, PC, and the NeXT platform by Dongleware Verlags GmbH [1]. It is a game of puzzles and tests that challenge you to restart all the oxygen generators (called Oxyds) on your home planet. ...
F Freeciv CVS snapshot from September 27, 2005, with the new Amplio tileset. ...
Civilization is a computer game created by Sid Meier for Microprose in 1991. ...
FreeDoom is a Doom WAD file intended to be used instead of the copyrighted file from the original Doom and Doom II. The idea is that since the source to Doom is released as open source you can combine the free game engine with the free WAD to create an...
Doom (or DOOM) is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is among the landmark titles in the first-person shooter genre. ...
FreeOrion screenshot from December 18, 2005: research system new to 0. ...
Master of Orion (MOO or MoO) is an intergalactic turn-based computer strategy game that was released in 1993. ...
Frozen Bubble is a free Puzzle Bobble style computer game which is available on several operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X and Windows; There is also a single player Java applet version. ...
FlightGear is a collaborative project that aims to create a sophisticated free software flight simulator framework. ...
G - GGZ Gaming Zone develops game servers and clients and provides online gaming services
- Glest is an Real-Time Strategy [RTS] game like Warcraft or Command & Conquer. Linux: http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uxsm/glest/ Windows: http://www.glest.org/
- Globulation 2 is an innovative Real-Time Strategy RTS, which minimizes micro-management by automatically assigning tasks to the units.
GGZ logo The GGZ Gaming Zone project was founded in the year 2000 in order to develop a free online gaming infrastructure. ...
Glest is a project for making a open-source 3d real-time customizable strategy game. ...
Globulation 2 screenshot Globulation 2 is a real-time strategy game, which minimizes micro-management by automatically assigning tasks to units. ...
RTS may refer to: Ryan Copley, A super awesome guy Jacob Fischer, A . ...
I Iter Vehemens ad Necem (IVAN) is a free graphical roguelike game, which currently runs in Windows, DOS and Linux. ...
A roguelike is a computer game that borrows some of the elements of another computer game, 1980s Rogue. ...
K - Several games are included in KDE; for instance:
- KAsteroids
- KAtomic
- KBounce
- Kolf
- KSokoban
The neutrality of this article is disputed. ...
// Overview KBounce is a clone of the computer game JezzBall. ...
L Lentilwars is an open source, multiplayer computer game. ...
Free Pascal (or FPK Pascal) is a 32-bit and 64-bit Pascal compiler. ...
Liquid War in play Liquid War is a multiplayer wargame based on an original concept by Thomas Colcombet: you move a cursor in a single screen 2D battlefield with some obstacles, and your army of liquid particles follow it using the shortest path. ...
M MegaMek is an Open Source, turn-based strategy computer game. ...
20 Year Anniversary of BattleTech logo BattleTech is a science-fiction universe akin to Star Trek or Star Wars. ...
N NetHack is a roguelike computer game originally released in 1987. ...
A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create narratives. ...
Nexuiz is a free/open source (engine, gamecode and data) 3D first-person shooter computer game developed by Alientrap Software. ...
O OpenArena is a free/open source 3D computer game that belongs to the first-person shooter genre. ...
Doom, one of the games that defined the first-person shooter genre. ...
The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is the most popular free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ...
The Quake 3 Engine was developed by id Software and is used in many games today. ...
Openglad is a crossplatform port (using SDL) of the early 1990s-era DOS game Gladiator. ...
Gauntlet is a 1985 arcade game by Atari Games. ...
Screenshot of OpenRTS from development version. ...
P - Panic - A rewrite of the Apple_Panic game in the Seed7 programming language. http://seed7.sourceforge.net
- Pingus, a Lemmings clone with animated penguins.
- Project: Starfighter - A two-dimensional, non-linear space shooter with an intricate plot. http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/starfighter.php
- Project Xenocide - Game inspired by X-Com: UFO Defense (also known as UFO: Enemy Unknown), strategy game in which you take the seat of the commander of a secret organisation to fend off an Alien Invasion. Home at http://www.projectxenocide.com
Apple Panic is a 1982 game for the Apple II programmed by Ben Serki of Broderbund Software. ...
Apple Panic is a 1982 game for the Apple II programmed by Ben Serki of Broderbund Software. ...
Seed7 is a general-purpose programming language designed by Thomas Mertes. ...
Pingus screenshot Pingus is an open source computer game inspired by Lemmings and created by Ingo Ruhnke. ...
If you are looking for the warm-blooded rodent, view Lemming. ...
Alien Concept Project Xenocide is an open source game inspired by X-Com: UFO Defense (Also known as UFO: Enemy Unknown). ...
R - Raptor is a space shoot-em-up game at http://raptorv2.sf.net
A fixed shooter game, also known as a 2-D shooter or shoot-em-up (shmup for short), is a video game where the player has limited control of their character and the focus is almost entirely on annihilation of their enemies. ...
S - Scorched3D, a game based loosely (or actually quite heavily now) on the classic DOS game Scorched Earth. Available for both Microsoft Windows and Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris etc.) operating systems. http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
- Smoothris is a tetris game, featuring vector graphics, smooth movements and rotations of the figure, sub-pixel accuracy and motion blur, all done with software rendering. It is written in Free Pascal.
- Spice Trade is an open source (LGPL), Java based adventure/rpg game that can be downloaded (with source code) from http://www.spicetrade.org/download.html
- The Ur-Quan Masters is an open-source free port of Star_Control_II based on the source code and media files of the 3DO version of the game - http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
- StepMania simulates dance games, mainly Dance Dance Revolution.
- SuperTux classic 2D jump and run game.
Scorched Earth was a popular shareware computer game from the PC-DOS era, originally written by Wendell Hicken, in which tanks do turn-based battle in two-dimensional terrain, with each player adjusting the angle and power of his or her tank turret before each shot. ...
Free Pascal (or FPK Pascal) is a 32-bit and 64-bit Pascal compiler. ...
GNU logo The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) is an FSF approved Free Software license designed as a compromise between the GNU General Public License and simple permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the MIT License. ...
The Star Control series is a trilogy of computer games with a cult following. ...
This article contains weasel words, which may compromise its neutrality. ...
The Star Control series is a trilogy of computer games with a cult following. ...
StepMania playing Spin The Disc from Dancing Stage EuroMix 2 & DDR Max 2 StepMania is a free, open source simulator of Konamis popular arcade and console video game series, Dance Dance Revolution. ...
The main gameplay screen of Dance Dance Revolution. ...
Screenshot of SuperTux 0. ...
T TA Spring, or Total Annihilation Spring, is a program started by the Swedish Yankspankers as a 3D Total Annihilation demo viewer, now a full 3D rts engine that is being developed by the SY and TA Spring community and with the eventual goal of being a commercial quality game engine...
Screenshot of Sopwith, an example of abandonware Abandonware is computer software which is no longer being sold or supported by its copyright holder. ...
Total Annihilation, known internally as Really Cool Wargame during production, is a futuristic real-time strategy (RTS) videogame, created in 1997 by Chris Taylor and Cavedog Entertainment. ...
Tile World is tile-based, puzzle free game software designed to emulate the game Chips Challenge. ...
Screenshot of the first level in MS CC. The exit is the blue tile 4 tiles above Chip (boy at center); the chip socket is right below the exit. ...
Tux Racer is a 3D computer game starring the Linux mascot, Tux the penguin. ...
OpenGl official logo OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a specification defining a cross-language cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 3D computer graphics (and 2D computer graphics as well). ...
Tux is the official Linux mascot. ...
Tyrant screenshot Tyrant is a Roguelike computer game written in Java and is playable online. ...
A roguelike is a computer game that borrows some of the elements of another computer game, 1980s Rogue. ...
U - UFO: Alien Invasion is a 3D, turn-based strategy game that pits humans against aliens. http://ufo.myexp.de/
V - Vega Strike is a 3D space shooter/strategy game. http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/
Vega Strike is an Open source first person space flight simulator, developed for Windows, POSIX U*x and Mac OS X systems in C, C++ over the OpenGL 3D graphics API and scripted internally through Python and XML. Gameplay Many of the core game mechanics of Vega Strike are inspired...
W - Warsow is a 3D fast-paced first person shooter based on the qfusion engine. http://www.warsow.net/
- Warzone 2100, A RTS very different from the standard C&C or Starcraft approach. Developed by Pumpkin Studios and released to the open source community in 2004.
Warsow is a standalone first-person shooter game for Microsoft Windows and Linux; it uses a 3D Engine based on Qfusion (a modification of Quake II GPL engine). ...
Warzone 2100 is a real-time strategy game, developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. ...
X - XEvil, a 2D side scroller with an excessive amount of violence. http://www.xevil.com/
- XPilot, a multiplayer asteroids like game, one of the first multiplayer games with good gameplay. http://www.xpilot.org/
- XPilot-ng, a modern version of xpilot with high frame rate, polygons, and opengl support. http://xpilot.sf.net/
Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
XPilot is a heavily improved multiplayer able Asteroids-like clone. ...
Screen capture of xpilot-ng running under fvwm on linux It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Xpilot. ...
Frame rate, or frame frequency, is the measurement of how quickly an imaging device produces unique consecutive images called frames. ...
See also - List of free first-person shooters
Free first-person shooters are games of the first person shooter genre available with no cost. ...
External links - DebianLinux.Net games section
- The Free Games Wiki
- Open Source Gaming
- The Linux Game Tome
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