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.
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Aleph One
Home page: [http://source.bungie.org/]
License: Engine under GPL; data files non-distributable but [http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/ free to download].
Download page: [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1997]
- Description: First Person Shooter
Comments: [http://robots.org.uk/debian/ Packages] ready, looking for a sponsor. ITP is [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=119911 #119911]. The current package doesn't download the game data files automatically, but I'll work on it.
DreamChess
Home page: [http://www.dreamchess.org/screenshots.html]
- License:
Download page: [http://www.dreamchess.org/downloads.html]
- Description: a 3d chess game
A package had been created for Ubuntu: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=269351] by "ubuntu AT dpb DOT org DOT uk". (Gonéri)> I sent a mail to invit him to join the team.
Ezquake
Home page: [http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/]
- License: GPL
Download page: [http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/build/]
- Description: a modern Quakeworld engine
- The game package is work in progress by the Debian Games Team
FreeCol
Home page: [http://www.freecol.org]
- License: GPL
Download page: [http://www.freecol.org/index.php?section=6]
- Description: Free reimplementation of Sid Meiers Colonization
- Comments: It should be evaluated, whether this runs with Free Java
Freedroidrpg
Home page: [http://freedroid.sf.net/]
- License: GPL
Download page: [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54521]
- Description: An isometric RPG influenced by Paradroid
Comments: [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2006/04/msg00007.html Initial review by Ben Armstrong]
FreeLords
Home page: [http://freelords.sourceforge.net/]
- License: GPL
Download page: [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11939]
- Description: Free reimplementation of the Warlords II game
Fuhquake
Home page: [http://www.fuhquake.net/]
- License: GPL
Download page: http://www.fuhquake.net/download.html
- Description: a modern Quakeworld engine
FunnyBoat
Home page: [http://funnyboat.sourceforge.net]
- License: GPL2
Download page: http://funnyboat.sourceforge.net/download.php
- Trip on the Funny Boat is side scrolling arcade shooter game on a steamboat equipped with a cannon and the ability to jump.
Comments: The game participated in the second ?PyWeek competition held in April 2006, and placed first in the team category.
Glest
Home page: [http://www.glest.org/]
- License: GPL
Download page: [http://www.glest.org/en/downloads.html]
- Description: Glest is a 3D fantasy realtime strategy game.
Comments: Nice graphics but no multiplayer mode yet. ITP is [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350391 #350391]. Some good [http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=2692 game] and [http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=2694 data] packages exist in Ubuntu's REVU. It seems there is a small non-free-nes issue with the [http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=2694 data] package which needs a closer look, although it seems to be fixed.
The game package is work in progress by the Debian Games Team. [http://nana.rulezlan.org/~goneri/pkg-games/debian/glest/ You can download and test the still unreleased package].
Maniadrive
Home page: [http://maniadrive.raydium.org/]
- License: ?
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.
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
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: [http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian/pool/main/o/openmortal/ Packages] available at debian-unofficial.org. RFP/ITP is [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248751 #248751].
- This package is work-in-progress by the Debian Games Team. Hopefully it'll be uploaded, soon.
Sauerbraten
Home page: [http://strlen.com/sauerbraten/]
License: [http://www.opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php zlib/libpng License]
Download page: [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=102911 Sauerbraten engine]
Description: Experimental engine based on [http://cube.sourceforge.net/ Cube], can be seen as "Next-Gen Cube", or "Cube 2". The main issue here is that Sauerbraten need to have r/w access in its data directorys. We need a patch to be able to use the $HOME directory for such things.
TA Spring
Home page: [http://taspring.clan-sy.com/]
License: The core game is released under GPL License. However, some parts of the game are still under copyright by their owners. Therefore, today, you need to own the original TA game if you want to play. However the community is working hard in order to offer completely free alternatives. At this moment there's a mod (content package) called [http://taspring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=8089 ?NanoBlobs] which is licensed under a combination of GPL & CC.
Download page: [https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4358 Berlios] or [https://taspring.clan-sy.com/svn/spring/tags SVN]. The game engine is fully ported to Linux. As of version 0.74b1 also Linux vs Windows multiplayer will be supported. However, a lobby (to set up & start multiplayer games) is not finished yet.
Description: a free [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Annihilation Total Annihilation] engine designed to be compatible with original materials.
Comments: there are [http://fbo.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Linux/DebSpring Packages] of version 0.72b1 available (deb http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/people/fbo/debspring/[distri]/ /). Many of the workarounds implemented in these packages have been obsoleted by game engine fixes though.[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367883 RFP].
uhexen2
Home page: http://uhexen2.sourceforge.net/
- License: GPL
Download page: http://uhexen2.sourceforge.net/download.html
- Description: Hexen2 GPLed engine. It needs the commercial paks from the cdrom or shareware. Maybe we can provide an installer like with quake2.
Warsow
Home page: [http://www.warsow.net/]
- License: engine is GPL, materials are not licensed
Download page: [http://www.warsow.net/?p=download]
- Description: A first person multiplayer shooter based on the GPLed Quake2 Engine (with cellshading).
- Comments: An ITP has been opened (#375430). Warsow engine is packaged and pending. Game content is non-free.
goneri: I tried to contact mappers team without success ( http://www.warsow.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1101476905 ). I sent mail to project leader about this issue without answer.
eddyp: I started a new thread in the developer section of the forum for better visibility (pointing to the initial thread) - it tries to explain better the problem and proposes a starting place (http://www.warsow.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=11854)
Wormsofprey
Home page: http://www.wormsofprey.org
- License: GPL2 + some non-free parts
Download page: http://uhexen2.sourceforge.net/download.html
- Description: Worms like multiplayer, realtime game
- Comments: An ITP is open (#353545) is open.
Xmris
Home page: [http://www.planetfall.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/xmris/]
- License: GPL since v4.05
Download page: [http://www.planetfall.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/xmris/xmris.4.0.5.tgz]
- Description: Mr Is is a version of the Mr Do video arcade game for the X Window System. Mr Ed is an editor with which you can create your own gardens.
- Comments: Seems to be available on OpenBSD, Mandrake and SuSE already.