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Here are links to various resources which could potentially help in making Debian a better distribution for gaming.

News Sites

• Gaming On Linux

  • Linux gaming site covering Free and non-free linux games.

• Linux Games

  • Another news site for Linux games, both free and non-free.

• Free Gamer

  • A commented compendium on Free Software Games.

• Root Gamer

  • Yet another news site on linux games. Remember folks, gaming as root isn't a good idea.

• http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/tag/games/

  • OMG! Ubuntu games articles

• http://ubuntugames.org/blog

  • Ubuntu Games blog

• https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming

  • Linux gaming community on reddit, see also the wiki

• https://www.reddit.com/r/opensourcegames

  • Open sources gaming community on reddit

Game Directories

• Linux Game Database

  • Database for native Linux games, with Debian package information.

• List of Games - ArchWiki

  • Large list of games and related links on Arch Linux wiki

• The Directory of Linux Games (aka Le Bottin des Jeux Linux)

  • Database for native Linux games (3100 games, 490 tools) & resources, with Debian package information.

• Libregamewiki

  • The free gaming encyclopedia, including a large List of games

• Ubuntu Community Games Page

  • Games list and other resources maintained by the Ubuntu community.

• Linux Gamers' Game List

  • A listing of games that run on Linux, hosted at icculus.org.

• playdeb.net

  • Games packaged by the playdeb.net team.

• PenguSpy

  • Directory of free and non-free Linux games

• itch.io Linux Games

  • Indie free and non-free Linux games

• ./play.it - Supported games

  • List of games supported by ./play.it

• https://www.humblebundle.com/

  • Humble indie bundle (some games are free code with non-free data)

• Pandora Apps - Games

  • Games for the ?OpenPandora gaming device

• OpenMoko games

  • Games for the ?OpenMoko smartphones

• GameRunner distro games

  • Gaming distribution for the ?OpenMoko smartphones

• Fedora games spin games

  • The Fedora gaming spin

• Linux games on Steam

  • List of Linux games available on Valve's DRM platform

• Open source games list

  • List of open source games, game frameworks and game creation tools

See also the Games/Suggested Debian Wiki page.

Game Development Communities

• Allegro Game Developing Community Network

  • Resources on games using the allegro library, some working on Linux, some being Free.

• Games using OpenAL

  • Games using the OpenAL library.

• Projects using Lightweight Java Game Library

  • Games using the Lightweight Java Game Library.

• Games/Projects using Ogre

  • Wiki page of games and other projects that use the Ogre engine.

• Projects using Crystal Space

  • A list of projects that use Crystal Space.

• Projects using Irrlicht

  • Screenshots of games and other projects that use the Irrlicht engine.

Game Engines / Libraries

• SFML

• http://www.sfml-dev.org

  • Cross platform multimedia library. Similar to SDL but C++ focussed. Bindings are also available for many other languages.

• OpenAL

• http://openal.org/

  • Cross-platform 3D audio API appropriate for use with gaming applications and many other types of audio applications.

• OpenAL Soft

• http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html

  • OpenAL Soft is an update/replacement to the OpenAL SI library hosted by Creative.

• ALURE

• http://kcat.strangesoft.net/alure.html

  • Utility library to help manage common tasks with OpenAL applications.

• OpenAL Links

• http://openal.org/links/

  • Links to game engines, libraries, bindings, and other resources for OpenAL.

• Lightweight Java Game Library

• http://www.lwjgl.org/index.php

  • Solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality games to be written in Java.

• Ogre 3D Engine

• http://ogre3d.org/

  • OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce applications utilising hardware-accelerated 3D graphics.

• G3D Engine

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/g3d-cpp/

  • G3D is a commercial-grade C++ 3D engine available as Open Source (BSD License).

• Crystal Space

• http://www.crystalspace3d.org/main/Main_Page

  • A free cross-platform software development kit for realtime 3D graphics, in particular games.

• Irrlicht Engine

• http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/

  • An open source high performance realtime 3D engine.

• ioquake3

• http://ioquake3.org/

  • ioquake3 (or ioq3 for short,) aims to build upon id Software's Quake 3 source code release.

• SLUDGE

• https://opensludge.github.io/

  • Cross-platform adventure game engine

• The Emulator Zone

• http://www.emulator-zone.com/

  • Website which is mainly aimed at providing information about console emulators.

• 3D engine tutorials

• http://www.squidoo.com/3D-engine-tutorials

  • Side by side comparasion of the major open source engines like Ogre, Crystal Space and Irrlicht

• Allegro

• http://liballeg.org/

  • Cross-platform, open source, game programming libraries, primarily for C and C++ developers.

"Sister" Projects

• Fedora Project Games Page

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games

• OpenSuSE games wish list

• https://en.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Games

• The Gentoo Games Project

• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Games

Reverse engineering

• http://rewiki.regengedanken.de/wiki/Main_Page

Other languages

• (French) Jeux Libres point net

• (German) Holarse's OSS games list

• (Spanish) LinuxJuegos is probably one of the most important blogs about games in Linux written in Spanish.

• (Portuguese) http://ubuntugames.org/ - nice matrix of games, split by genre

CategoryGame | ToDo: merge with Game