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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.
Other games that are missing from Debian can be found in the games blend tasks and in the list of packages removed from Debian.
Note: If you want to see the status of a bug, move your mouse over the bug number (e.g. RFP or ITP).
On the site Open Source Game Clones are some informations about open-source reimplementations of great old games.
Contents
- Aleph One
- Berusky2
- Black Shades Elite
- CoreBreach
- CorsixTH
- Crystal Entity Layer
- Daimonin
- Dawn
- DccNiTghtmare
- Domination
- Dwarf Fortress
- ET: Legacy
- ezQuake
- FAR Colony
- Force: Leashed
- FreeLords
- FreeOrion
- FreeRA
- Freesynd
- GemRB
- Glamour
- Goblin Camp
- Haxima
- Holyspirit
- Iris2
- Irrlamb
- Jammer The Gardener
- Jose Chess
- jRPG Valyria Tear
- Kernel Panic
- Liberal Crime Squad
- Lips of Suna
- Maniadrive
- ManicDigger
- M.A.R.S.
- Mari0
- Mega Mario
- Memonix
- MTP-Target
- Mystic Mine
- NAEV
- No Gravity
- Open World Soccer
- OpenLieroX
- OpenMW
- OpenRA
- OpenXcom
- Pacifi3d
- Paintball
- Paintown
- Penumbra Overture
- Pushover
- Puzzle Moppet
- Reaction
- Red Rogue
- Rigs of Rods
- Ryzom
- Smoking Guns
- Speed Dreams
- Spring:1944
- Stepmania
- Stunt Rally
- Stendhal
- Summoning Wars
- Terasology
- The Dark Mod
- The Legend of Edgar
- Thunder & Lightning
- TurtleArena
- ufo2000
- UFO: Alien Invasion
- Ultrastar Deluxe
- Unvanquished
- Urban Terror
- VDrift
- Vega Strike
- Vertigo
- Vulture
- Warsow
- World of Padman
- Wormsofprey
- Xonotic
- Yoda Soccer
Aleph One
Home page: http://marathon.sourceforge.net/
License: GPLv3 (engine); data files non-distributable but free to download.
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/marathon/
- Description: first person shooter (fps)
- Comments:
- The current package doesn't download the game data files automatically, but I'll work on it.
- Please upload your package to mentors.debian.net. The package files can be found on the debian bug.
Debian Bug: 119911
Berusky2
Home page: http://anakreon.cz/en/Berusky2.htm
- License: GPLv2
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/berusky2/
- Description: 3D open source sequel of Berusky1 game, aimed to Linux/Windows.
- Comments: Bart Martens has already created a debian package. Now he needs some help in testing.
Black Shades Elite
Home page: http://home.gna.org/blackshadeselite/
- Source Code License: GPLv2
- Media Content License: ?
- Description: First person shooter with simplistic graphics
Debian Bug: 691415
CoreBreach
Home page: http://corebreach.corecode.at/
- License: Source Code (GPL), 3D Engine (MIT)
Description: ?CoreBreach is THE brand-new futuristic "anti-gravity" racing game with combat-based gameplay.
- Comments: The game data is closed source, but there a some important data as freeware to compile the game.
CorsixTH
Home page: http://code.google.com/p/corsix-th/
- License: MIT
- Description: This project aims to reimplement the game engine of Theme Hospital, with the capability of loading assets including graphics and levels from the original game.
- Comments: You must own Theme Hospital to use CorsixTH. So this game engine should go into contrib.
Debian Bug: 610087
Crystal Entity Layer
Home page: http://www.crystalspace3d.org/
- License: LGPLv2
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cel/
- Description: Crystal Entity Layer (CEL) is a game entity layer based on Crystal Space. It makes it easier for game developers to create games based on Crystal Space. CEL can optionally be used together with Python or other scripting languages.
- Comments: It has been in git of Games Team.
Debian Bug: 282666
Daimonin
Home page: http://www.daimonin.org/
- License: GPLv2
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/daimonin/
- Description: Daimonin is a fantasy MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game) which features a large gameworld with engaging background, and is developing many fun and unique features.
Debian Bug: 638808
Dawn
Home page: https://github.com/frusen/Dawn
- Source Code License: GPLv3
- Media Content License: GPLv3
- Description: Dawn is a 2D RPG set in a fantasy world. Able to choose a race, class and alignment to create a unique player experience. Gain experience through quests or slaying monsters, in order to level up and gain new skills, spells and more!
Debian Bug: 691416
DccNiTghtmare
Home page: http://dnt.dnteam.org
- Source Code License: GPLv3
- Media Content License: GPL, CC BY and CC BY-SA
Description: DccNiTghtmare (aka DNT) is a project to make a Free (as in free speech) 3D single player RPG in a satirical post-apocalyptical world.
Debian Bug: 610875
Domination
Home page: http://domination.sourceforge.net/
- License: GPLv2
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/domination/
- Description: Domination is a board game that is a bit like the well known game Risk
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
ET: Legacy
Home page: http://www.etlegacy.com/
- License: GPLv3; gamedata (non-free)
Licence issues: http://www.etlegacy.com/projects/etlegacy/wiki/A_short_introduction_to_the_current_status_quo_of_this_Wolfenstein_Enemy_Territory_thing
- Description: ET: Legacy is based on the source code of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory which was released under the GPLv3 license. The main goal of this project is to fix bugs, remove old dependencies and make it playable on all major operating systems while still remaining compatible with the ET 2.60b version and as many of its mods as possible....
- Comments: Perhaps we can put a package into contrib, with an auto-downloader for the non-free gamedata inside.
Skript for the non-free gamedata: http://debianer.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/etlegacy-unter-linux-spielen/
See also: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Unsuitable#Wolfenstein:_Enemy_Territory_.5BJun_2007.5D
ezQuake
Home page: http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/
- License: GPL for the engine and unclear for the data materials
Download page: http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/build/
- Description: a modern Quakeworld engine
Comments: A package is mostly ready BUT there is copyright infractions in the current release. Upstream fixed these issues on the CVS: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1630211&group_id=117445&atid=678559.
FAR Colony
Home page: https://code.google.com/p/farcolony/
- License: GPLv3
- Description: FAR Colony (First Autonomous Remote Colony) is a game of exploration and space colonization being held in the 23th century. It has 2 phases: a Colonization Phase, where the player must make the colony viable in 365 days max, and a Sandbox Play.
- Comments: This project is in ALPHA STAGE so not fully playable yet!
Force: Leashed
Home page: http://www.kepuli.com/force_leashed/
- License: GPL
License (assets): http://www.kepuli.com/docs/force_leashed_asset_lisences.txt
Engine: ?DarkPlaces (GPL) - http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/
- Description: Force: Leashed is a free first person gravity fiddler. To advance, you need to guide rockets to their targets using spherical potential fields. And no, it's not like Portal. That much.
- Comments: Sources can be found in the linux package.
Debian Bug: 694639
FreeLords
Home page: http://freelords.sourceforge.net/
- License: GPLv2
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freelords/
- Description: Free reimplementation of the Warlords II game
- Comments: Upstream is in flux. They want to move to Java. I have packaged LordsAWar on svn which uses the Freelords code as a base - bddebian
FreeOrion
Home page: http://www.freeorion.org
- Source Code License: GPLv2
- Media Content License: CC-BY-SA 3.0
Description: FreeOrion is a free, open source, turn-based space empire and galactic conquest (4X) computer game being designed and built by the FreeOrion project. FreeOrion is inspired by the tradition of the Master of Orion games, but is not a clone or remake of that series or any other game.
Debian Bug: 593339
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.
Superseded by http://sourceforge.net/projects/openredalert/ ?
Freesynd
Home page: http://freesynd.sourceforge.net/
- License: GPL
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freesynd/
Description: ?FreeSynd is a cross-platform, GPLed reimplementation of the classic Bullfrog game, Syndicate.
Comments: Requires original game media files, so will need to go into contrib. It actually includes 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. Support for the syndicate game files could be added to Games/GameDataPackager.
GemRB
Home page: http://www.gemrb.org/
- License: GPLv2
?GitHub: https://github.com/gemrb/gemrb
- Description: GemRB is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware's Infinity Engine.
- Comments: This game engine should be go into contrib.
Debian Bug: 477376
Glamour
Home page: http://ocastudios.com/videogame/glamour
- License: Public Domain
Download page: http://launchpad.net/glamour
- Description: A game for girls age 8 to 12. You play with a princess on her sweet sixteen and you have to walk around the town to talk to other princesses and check out what they will wear at the ball. This way you can go to the stores and find an original look to earn the most glamour points at the dance.
Goblin Camp
Home page: http://www.goblincamp.com/
- License: GPLv3
- Description: Goblin Camp is a roguelike citybuilder, inspired by Anno 1404, Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper.
Debian Bug: 691417
Haxima
- License: GPLv2
- Description: A game based on Nazghul engine with Ultima V-like gameplay and graphics.
Debian Bug: 691418
Holyspirit
Home page: http://www.holyspirit.fr/index.php?lang=_en
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lechemindeladam/
- License: GPLv2
- Description: Holyspirit is a 2D isometric hack'n'slash game (action-rpg). You play a Holyspirit, which is an old corrupted soul who's been enlisted in God's army. You must redeem the country from the evil who's been unleashed against the living ones.
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
Home page: http://code.google.com/p/irrlamb/
- License: GPLv3 (engine); CC-BY-SA 3.0 (content)
- Description: 3D game that probably involves a lot of physics and frustrating gameplay.
- Packages: Look at a getdeb.net-Mirror.
- A preliminary irrlamb package is in the svn and irrlicht, the main dependency is ready to be uploaded thanks to Christoph Egger.
Jammer The Gardener
Home page: http://jammers.sourceforge.net/
- License: GPL
Download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jammers/
- Description: Live the life of a aspiring gardener. A 3D comic game for kids.
Packages: Ubuntu package available: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jammers/jammer-thegardener_1.0_i386.deb
Jose Chess
Home page: http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/
- License: GPL
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jose-chess/
- Description: jose is a graphical Chess tool.You can store chess games in a database.You can view and edit games (including variations and comments).You can play against a plugged-in chess engine and use it for analysis. Features 3D board view.
Debian Bug: 702696
jRPG Valyria Tear
Home page: http://valyriatear.blogspot.in/
- License: GPLv2; CC
Screenshots: http://valyriatear.blogspot.in/p/what-is-this.html
- Description: Valyria Tear is an attempt at creating a free (as meant in the Gnu Public License) J-RPG game.
Kernel Panic
Home page: http://springrts.com/wiki/Kernel_Panic
- License: GPL, Public Domain, 2 maps are non-free.
- Description: SpringRTS mod.
- Comments: Official package in Ubuntu Natty.
Debian Bug: 554153
Liberal Crime Squad
Home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lcsgame/
- License: GPLv2
- Description: A satirical console-based political role-playing/strategy game in which you recruit a team of Elite Liberal radicals and try to save the United States from a descent into Arch-Conservatism. Gameplay based loosely on the classic 1983 RPG Oubliette.
Debian Bug: 533051
Lips of Suna
Home page: http://lipsofsuna.org/
- Source Code License: LGPLv3
- Media Content License: CC BY-SA 3.0
- Description: A tongue-in-cheek dungeon crawl game that takes place in the chaotic dungeons of Suna.
Debian Bug: 691419
Maniadrive
Home page: http://maniadrive.raydium.org/
License: GPL (code&art); CC 2.0 (music) [license can be found on the linux binary package]
- Description: A free clone of Trackmania.
- Comment: Two dependencies are automatically downloaded from configure script:
ODE (Open Dynamics Engine) -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/opende/
- PHP (library; v5)
See: Maniadrive FAQ
ManicDigger
Home page: http://manicdigger.sourceforge.net/
- License: Public Domain
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/manicdigger/
- Description: Manic Digger is a public domain 3d block-building game similar to Minecraft.
M.A.R.S.
Home page: http://mars-game.sourceforge.net
- License: GPLv3
Launchpad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mars-core/+archive/ppa
- Description: This is a first attempt to create a game in OpenGL with SFML. It is a game for two players, flying with ships in a two-dimensional space setting, governed by the laws of gravity.
Mari0
Home page: http://stabyourself.net/mari0/
- License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
- Description: A complete from scratch recreation of Super Mario Bros. with a focus on perfectly imitating the feel the 1985 classic gave us. Then give Mario a portal gun, add puzzle game mechanics from Portal and there you go. And if that wasn't crazy enough, play 4-player coop, with everyone having their own Portal gun!
Comments: Needs the LOVE 2D game engine: http://love2d.org/
- TODO: Check the source files in the the source archive.
Mega Mario
Home page: http://mmario.sourceforge.net/
- License: GPLv2.1
- Description: Mega Mario is a Super Mario Bros. 1 clone.
Memonix
Home page: http://www.viewizard.com/games.php
- License: GPL-3
Download page: http://www.viewizard.com/download.php
- Description: Brain teasers, puzzle and memory games for kids in one pack!
- Comments: Good image and music. Easy to build and play.
MTP-Target
Home page: http://www.mtp-target.org
- License: GNU GPL
Download page: http://mtptarget.free.fr/download.php
- Description: The best pinguin rolls down a ramp game ever
Comments: only client is opensource. Fork of older version with server is here: http://code.google.com/p/tux-target/
Mystic Mine
Home page: http://www.koonsolo.com/mysticmine/
- License: MIT
- Description: A mining game
- Comments: This source code release not includes music and sounds.
NAEV
Home page: http://code.google.com/p/naev
- License: GNU GPLv3 Code, GPLv2/3, CC-By (and -SA) 3, PD Media.
Download page: http://code.google.com/p/naev/downloads/list
- Description: 2D space shooter influenced by Ambrosia Software's Escape Velocity.
Debian Bug: 523834
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
Open World Soccer
- License: GPL
- Description: Open World Soccer is a funny, easy to play and nice looking football game. It wants to take the inheritance of great games of the past, like Sensible Soccer, Kick Off and others.
Debian Bug: 576138
OpenLieroX
Home page: http://www.openlierox.net/
- License: LGPL
Download page: http://www.openlierox.net/downloads/
- Description: A fun realtime worms clone with multiplayer support
- Comments: Upstream releases Ubuntu packages themselves.
Debian Bug: 445850
OpenMW
Home page: https://openmw.org/
- License: GPLv3
- Description: OpenMW is an attempt to reimplement the popular role playing game Morrowind. It aims to be a fully playable, open source implementation of the game.
- Comments: You must own Morrowind to use OpenMW. So this game engine should go into contrib.
OpenRA
Home page: http://openra.res0l.net/
- License: GPLv3
Description: OpenRA is a Libre/Free Real Time Strategy game engine supporting early Westwood games like Command & Conquer and Command & Conquer: Red Alert.
- Comments: Is there a connection between FreeRA and OpenRA or is that the same engine?
OpenXcom
Home page: http://openxcom.org/
- Licence: GPL
Description: ?OpenXcom is an open-source clone of the original UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-Com: UFO Defense in USA), licensed under the GPL and written in C++ / SDL. It was originally founded by ?SupSuper in February 2009, and has since grown into a small development team surrounded by a very supporting community.
Comments: You must own vanilla version of the original UFO: Enemy Unknown / X-COM: UFO Defense to use ?OpenXcom. It is not compatible with other games in the X-COM series. So this engine shound go into contrib.
Pacifi3d
Home page: http://pacifi3d.retrogames.com/pacifi3d/index.html
- Licence: Open Source
Download page: http://pacifi3d.retrogames.com/pacifi3d/index.html
- Description: A proof-of-concept pacman emulator that replaces the original pacman sprites and tiles with OpenGL 3D graphics.
- Comments: Source is GPL but requires "Puckman" MAME rom images to work. - bddebian
- Dead upstream, last release was in 2005
Paintball
Home page: http://www.digitalpaint.org/
- Licence: GPL
- Description: With its high-value team objectives, limited range projectiles, and intense maneuvering, Paintball 2 offers a very unique experience that will appeal to both hardcore and novice players. It only takes one shot to eliminate somebody, but the fast-paced, arcade-style movement from Quake 2 allows for quick dodging, insane jumps, and breakneck speeds. Best of all, the game is completely free, and it's a small download, so just try it out!
Paintown
Home page: http://paintown.org/
- Licence: BSD
- Description: Paintown is a free and open source 2-d fighting game.
Penumbra Overture
Home page: http://www.penumbragame.com/
- License: GPLv3
Download page: http://github.com/FrictionalGames
- Description: An episodic first person horror game.
- Comments: Was released as part of the recent Humble Indie Bundle.
See Games/PenumbraOverture for a beginning look at licensing and packaging. Everything is good for main but nvidia cg SDK. --showard
Pushover
Home page: http://pushover.sourceforge.net/
- Licence: GPLv2
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pushover/
- Description: Pushover is a fun puzzle game originally published by Ocean in 1992. In this game you control an ant that can walk along platforms that are connected with ladders. On those platforms are dominos that need to fall according to some rules.
Puzzle Moppet
Home page: http://garnetgames.com/puzzlemoppet/
- Licence: Source Code (WTFPLv2); Assets (freeware)
- Description: Puzzle Moppet is a serenely peaceful yet devilishly challenging 3D puzzle game.
Comments: There are a community release with fully open source assets: https://bitbucket.org/Knitter/puzzlemoppet
Debian Bug: 694701
Reaction
Home page: http://rq3.com/
- Licence: GPL
- Licence: Reaction is available freely and the content is licensed under the Creative Commons.
Engine: ioquake3 - http://ioquake3.org/
- Description: Reaction (formerly called Reaction Quake III) started out life as a total conversion mod for Quake III Arena but has since morphed into a standalone game built atop the open-source Quake 3 engine code-base in the form of ioquake3.
Build instructions: http://www.holarse-linuxgaming.de/node/2787
Debian Bug: 694645
Red Rogue
Home page: http://redrogue.net/
- Licence: GPLv3
- Description: A computer game, a side-scrolling roguelike-like
Rigs of Rods
Home page: http://www.rigsofrods.com
- License: GPLv3
Download page: http://download.rigsofrods.com/
- Description: open source vehicle simulator based on soft-body physics.
Debian Bug: 692438
Ryzom
Home page: http://dev.ryzom.com/projects/ryzom
- License: code - AGPLv3, art CC-BY-SA
Download page: http://dev.ryzom.com/wiki/ryzom/Getting_Source
- Description: massively multiplayer online role-playing game
Comments: replace NeL package http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/nel
Smoking Guns
Home page: http://www.smokin-guns.org/
- License: GPLv2
Engine: ioquake3 - http://ioquake3.org/
Download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smokinguns/
- Description: Smokin' Guns is a GPLv2 licensed first person Western style shooter based on the Quake 3 engine (Id Tech 3) developed by a loosely knit team of developers and artists. This project represents the game engine.
Debian repo (unofficial): http://forum.smokin-guns.org/viewtopic.php?p=24468#p24468
Debian Bug: 694640
Speed Dreams
Home page: http://speed-dreams.org/
- License: GPL
- Description: Speed Dreams is a 3d cross-platform, open source motorsport simulation and racing game.
- Comments: TORCS-Fork
Launchpad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~speed-dreams/+archive/ppa
Debian Bug: 599884
Spring:1944
Home page: http://spring1944.net/
- License: GPL
- Description: A WWII themed game with four fully functional sides (US, Germany, USSR, Britain), period-accurate units and strengths. Realism comes second only to creating a game that is fun and accessible to play.
Stepmania
Home page: http://www.stepmania.com/
- License: MIT
Description: ?StepMania is a free dance and rhythm game for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It features 3D graphics, keyboard and "dance pad" support, and an editor for creating your own steps.
Debian Bug: 200715
Stunt Rally
Home page: http://code.google.com/p/vdrift-ogre/
- License: GPLv3
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/stuntrally/
- Description: Stunt Rally is a racing game with Track Editor, based on VDrift and OGRE.
Debian Bug: 694967
Stendhal
Home page: http://stendhalgame.org/
- License: GPLv2
- Description: Stendhal is a fun friendly and completely free multiplayer online adventure game with an old school feel.
Debian Bug: 691420
Summoning Wars
Home page: http://sumwars.org/
- License: GPLv3
- Description: Summoning Wars is an open source role-playing game, featuring both a single-player and a multiplayer mode for about 2 to 8 players.
Debian Bug: 597857
Terasology
Home page: http://blog.movingblocks.net/blockmania/
- License: Apache
- Description: Terasology is a game that pays ample tribute to Minecraft in initial look and origin, but stakes out its own niche by adopting the NPC-helper and caretaker feel from such games as Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper, while striving for added depth and sophistication.
Debian Bug: 702695
The Dark Mod
Home page: http://www.thedarkmod.com/
- License: GPLv3; CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (gamedata)
License: https://svn.thedarkmod.com/svn/darkmod_src/trunk/LICENSE.txt
- Description: THE DARK MOD is a total conversion for Doom 3, turning it into a dark and moody stealth game inspired by the Thief series by Looking Glass Studios. More like a professional game release than a mod, it includes creative new gameplay features, dozens of unique AI, and a complete set of custom art assets, allowing players and mappers alike to enjoy missions in a gothic steampunk universe. The Dark Mod was officially released on October 17th, 2009.
- Comments: There are some work left, before they release a standalone release of this game.
The Legend of Edgar
- Source Code License: GPLv2
- Media Content License: ?
- Description: The Legend of Edgar is a platform game, not unlike those found on the Amiga and SNES. Edgar must battle his way across the world, solving puzzles and defeating powerful enemies to achieve his quest.
Debian Bug: 653813
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.
Debian Bug: 691423
TurtleArena
Home page: https://code.google.com/p/turtlearena/
- License: Turtle Arena source code is licensed under a modified version of the GNU GPLv3 (or at your option, any later version), the license is also used by Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Doom 3.
Engine: Spearmint (GPLv3) - http://code.google.com/p/ioq3ztm/
- Description: Turtle Arena is a free and open source cross-platform third-person action game using a modified version of the Spearmint engine, which is based on ioquake3.
Launchpad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~zturtleman/+archive/turtlearena-stable
Debian Bug: 694704
ufo2000
see /ufo2000
UFO: Alien Invasion
Home page: http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/
- 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 classic turn based strategy game called UFO (Terror from the deep, Enemy unknown). Game engine is based on the GPL version of quake2.
- 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 >
Debian Bug: 244582
Ultrastar Deluxe
Home page: http://ultrastardx.sourceforge.net/
Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultrastardx/
Support forum: http://forum.ultrastardeluxe.org/
- License: GPL
- Description: The best free Singstar clone for your PC
Comments: It can be probably compiled with Free Pascal and Lazarus, already in Debian.
Debian Bug: 487216
Unvanquished
Home page: http://www.unvanquished.net/
- License: GPLv3 (?)
License: https://github.com/Unvanquished/Unvanquished/blob/master/COPYING.txt
- Description: Alien vs. Human Shooter
Comments: Inspired by Tremulous, uses the Daemon engine (OpenWolf fork).
Debian repo (unofficial): http://www.moreofthesa.me.uk/unv.xhtml
Debian Bug: 694703
Urban Terror
Home page: http://www.urbanterror.info/
- License: GPLv2 (ioquake3); gamedata (freeware)
- Description: free multiplayer first person shooter (fps)
Ubuntu Games Repository: http://www.urbanterror.info/forums/topic/27329-ubuntu-games-repository-urban-terror/
- Comments: Main packaging problem seems to be that data is rather large.
Debian Bug: 468325
VDrift
Home page: http://www.vdrift.net/
- License: GPLv2
- Description: VDrift is a cross-platform, open source driving simulation made with drift racing in mind. The driving physics engine was recently re-written from scratch but was inspired and owes much to the Vamos physics engine.
Debian Bug: 694966
Vega Strike
Home page: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/
- License: GPL
- Description: 3D action-space-sim allowing player to trade and bounty hunt in a vast universe.
Debian Bug: 691424
Vertigo
Home page: http://www.vertigo-game.com/
- License: GPLv3
Download page: https://github.com/amireh/Vertigo
- Description: Vertigo is an arcade game that puts your reflexes to a test.
Comments: The game is written in C++, and built with Ogre3D, BulletPhysics, and OpenAL.
Vulture
Home page: http://www.darkarts.co.za/vulture
- Source Code and Media Content License: Nethack GPL
Description: Vulture in an isometric graphical interface for NetHack, Slash'EM and UnNetHack.
Debian Bug: 691425
Warsow
Home page: http://www.warsow.net/
- Licence: GPL
- Description: fast-paced first-person shooter (FPS)
- Reminder: The last Warsow release was in Debian Squeeze but the maintainer was not responding for a Wheezy release. Now, the maintainer prepares a new release for Debian Jessie.
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.
Debian Bug: 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:
- 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
Debian Bug: 353545 (closed due inactivity)
Xonotic
Home page: http://www.xonotic.org/
- License: GPL v2
Engine: ?DarkPlaces (GPL) - http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/
- Description: Xonotic is a free and fast-paced first person shooter for Linux, Mac, and Windows. It combines addictive, arena-style gameplay with rapid movement and a wide array of weapons.
- Comments: Nexuiz-Fork
xonotic-autobuild.deb: http://fernmannblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/aktuellen-autobuild-von-xonotic-uber-die-paketverwaltung-installieren/
Debian Bug: 646377
Yoda Soccer
Home page: http://yodasoccer.sourceforge.net/
- License: GPL
- Description: A game with the gameplay and the style of Sensible World of Soccer (SWOS) or Kick Off
Debian Bug: 691426