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= Dwarf Fortress =

 * Home page: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
 * License: Non-free. Unmodified binary can be redistributed.
 * Download page: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
 * Description: A game focusing on the creation and survival of a Dwarfish settlement
 * Comments: Was originally a Windows only game, the Linux release is fairly recent.
  * Development is ongoing. Currently playable but listed as Alpha.
  * Full name is: Slaves to Armok: God of Blood, Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress

This page lists games that appear suitable for Debian, but which were not packaged either because nobody had the time or because nobody heard about it yet. After processing one of these games (evaluation of license, packaging), please move the corresponding entries to the appropriate wiki page: Games/[package_name] or Games/Unsuitable.

Please keep the list alphabetically sorted!

See Games/Links if you are looking for other possible new games. Also, don't forget to check Games/WNPP.

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Aleph One

AstroMenace

Battles of Antargis

  • Home page: http://antargis.berlios.de/

  • Comments:
    • ?FlorianLudwig 14.05.07: "bresser [AT] informatik uni-bremen de" created a debian package already. If you gonna build one please contact him to avoid doubled work. He is no dd and so I guess he needs a sponsor.

    • Are his packages online somewhere? I'd like to try them...
    • From the website: " I appreciate any helpful feedback, but please note, that this game is far from being stable or even playable." - bddebian

Crystal Entity Layer

Dwarf Fortress

  • Home page: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

  • License: Non-free. Unmodified binary can be redistributed.
  • Download page: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

  • Description: A game focusing on the creation and survival of a Dwarfish settlement
  • Comments: Was originally a Windows only game, the Linux release is fairly recent.
    • Development is ongoing. Currently playable but listed as Alpha.
    • Full name is: Slaves to Armok: God of Blood, Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress

Ecksdee

ezQuake

FreeLords

FreeRA

  • Home page: http://www.freera.org

  • License: GPL
  • Download page: http://www.freera.org

  • Description: Free engine to play the "Command & Conquer: Red Alert" game from Westwood under Linux.

  • Comments: Requires original game media files, so will need to go into contrib.

Freesynd

  • Home page: http://freesynd.sourceforge.net/

  • License: GPL
  • Download page: http://freesynd.sourceforge.net/

  • Description: Free engine to play the "Syndicate" game from Bullfrog under Linux. The first level is already roughly playable.
  • Comments: Requires original game media files, so will need to go into contrib. It actually ncludes the game media files in the 0.1 download tarball, but as the license status is unclear, they'll need to be removed and repackaged as .dfsg.tar.gz

Iris2

  • Home Page: http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Main_Page

  • License: GPL-2
  • Description: Iris2 is a highly customizable cross-platform open-source 3D client for playing the MMORPG "Ultima Online" (tm) on Freeshards.
  • Comments: Uses the Ogre3D engine and Lugre, a middleware to use the Lua scripting language.

irrlamb

Jammer The Gardener

Lure Of The Temptress

Maniadrive

  • Home page: http://maniadrive.raydium.org/

  • License: Code & Art (GPL-2), Music (Creative Commons 2 ????)

  • Download: http://maniadrive.raydium.org/index.php?downloads=yes

  • Description: a free clone of Trackmania
  • Screenshot: http://maniadrive.raydium.org/index.php?screenshots=yes

  • comment: (Quote from the official faq) Two dependencies are automatically downloaded from configure script:
  • * ODE (Open Dynamics Engine)
  • * PHP (v5) The problem here is that a lot of Linux distros do not provides PHP as a library, but only as a CLI program and an Apache module. ODE is released by distros in a lot of various versions (0.3x, 0.5, 0.6, CVS), wich makes things very complex for us. As a packager, you must know that Raydium "configure" script does not generates anything (no config.h nor Makefile) and is only here to download ODE (from our server) and PHP (from www.php.net) and checks all other dependencies, so it's possible to package the game without calling configure script and provide these libraries in another way.
  • * Update: ODE 0.7 is in experimental and is maintained by the team. Things will be easier.

Memonix

MTP-Target

NAEV

No Gravity

  • Home page: http://www.realtech-vr.com/nogravity/

  • License: GPL (source code and data)
  • Download page: http://www.realtech-vr.com/nogravity/download.html

  • Description: Polished 3D space shooter
  • Comments: This game used to be commercial, but was freed under the GPL in 2006. Thus, it's complete and polished. Integrating would require some work on the buildsystem. Right now the download tarballs lack Makefiles.
    • CVS has configure and make files. Game is actually kind of fun. I may work on it. - bddebian

OpenAstroMenace

  • See ?AstraMenace

OpenMortal

  • Home page: http://openmortal.sourceforge.net/

  • License: GPL
  • Download page: http://openmortal.sourceforge.net/download.html

  • Description: Open Mortal is a parody of the once popular coin-up fighting game, Mortal Kombat.
  • Comments: Packages available at debian-unofficial.org. RFP/ITP is #248751.

  • This package is work-in-progress by the Debian Games Team. Hopefully it'll be uploaded, soon.
    • Already in games svn
    • 2008-09-29 - bdefreese: Unknown license issues with graphics and other content.

Pacifi3d

Project Football

REminiscense

Ryzom

Slime Volley

  • Home page: http://slime.tuxfamily.org/

  • License: GPL
  • Download page: http://slime.tuxfamily.org/down.php

  • Description: Unrealistic 2D volleyball simulation using SDL, similar to Blobby Volley
  • Comments: On of the 2 upstream maintain a Debian package that is 99% ready to enter Debian. I suggested him to join the DGT.

Spring

  • Home page: http://taspring.clan-sy.com/

  • License: The core game is released under GPL License and there is completely free content available. However several mods of the game are still under copyright by their owners. Therefore you need to own the original TA game if you want to play these. At this moment there's a mod (content package) called NanoBlobs which is licensed under a combination of GPL & CC. "Spring 1944" is another open-source mod currently available: http://www.spring1944.com/.

  • Download page: Berlios or SVN. The game engine is fully ported to Linux. As of version 0.74b1 also Linux vs Windows multiplayer will be supported. There is a lobby server now: http://spring.clan-sy.com/dl/TASServer.jar

  • Description: a free Total Annihilation engine designed to be compatible with original materials.

  • Comments:
    • Being packaged by ScottRitchie in a third party repository. Will be moving into Debian soonish after 0.96 release.

    • ITP in

Thunder & Lightning

  • Home page: http://tnlgame.net/

  • License: GPL
  • Download page: http://tnlgame.net/content/view/37/57/

  • Description: futuristic action flight simulator and real-time strategy game
  • Comments: I've tried to build this but it requires the Io programming language. There is an ITP for Io but last I checked it was not complete.

ufo2000

UFO: Alien Invasion

  • Home page: http://ufo.myexp.de/

  • License: GPL and Creative Commons
  • Download page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157793

  • Description: strategy game featuring tactical combat against hostile alien forces which are about to infiltrate earth at this very moment.
  • Comments: a 3D remake of the clasical turn based strategy game called UFO (Terror from the deep, Enemy unknown). game engine is based on the GPL version of quake2. This package has an ITP (#244582) by Yann Dirson already (anyone willing to check the status?).

    • This package is already being worked on. Their sources tarball contains a debian folder.
    • Point of contact is Yann Dirson < dirson@debian.org > or < dino@phidev.org >

uhexen2

Ultrastar Deluxe

Unknown Horizons

  • Home page: http://unknown-horizons.org/

  • License: code licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 and the graphics as CC-BY-SA 3.0
  • Download page: http://unknown-horizons.org.org/site/index.php?page=download svn://unknown-horizons.org.org/openanno/trunk

  • Description: Realtime economy simulation game with strategy elements in an isometric 2D engine loosely oriented towards Sunflower's Anno series
  • Comments:
    • currently in the early development phase
    • setup.py , installability on it's way
    • non-free bits all over the tree ...
    • depends on fife: http://www.fifengine.de/ which is not yet in debian

    • Quick&Dirty packages for fife, openanno on their site

    • christoph-guest involved upstream to fix the licence issues

World of Padman

  • Home page: http://worldofpadman.com

  • License: GPL for the source code, non-free license for game data (see below)
  • Download page: http://worldofpadman.com

  • Description: Polished, complete, comic-style first-person shooter
  • Comments:
    • The game engine and source code are free software (GPLed), but the license for the game data doesn't permit commercial use, so the game could go into contrib with the game data into non-free
    • 2008-09-29 - bdefreese: Already in games team SVN.
    • ITPed: 481286

Wormsofprey

  • Home page: http://www.wormsofprey.org

  • License: GPL2 + some non-free parts
  • Download page: http://www.wormsofprey.org/download.html

  • Description: Worms like multiplayer, realtime game
  • Comments: An ITP was opened in 2006 but closed due to inactivity (#353545).

    • 2008-09-29 - bdefreese: And upstream hasn't seemed active since 2006.
    • 2008-11-28 - eddyp: the package hasn't been touched in a while, hasn't been uploaded and has been moved into the attic by goneri in r4300

Xmris