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Linux users can get their paws on physic-based platform game BEEP ahead of its launch in the Ubuntu Software Centre through Gameolith – a new online games store for Linux.

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Detailed Description

The spin is based off the live desktop spin (minus wine). There is not room on a DVD for all of the games in Fedora. The intention is to try to include the best games from various genres. Included games should be playable without third party downloads. For some very large games or games that can use downloaded data, just a demo version might be included.

Below is a list of games included:

Package Name Web site Summary

abe http://abe.sourceforge.net/ Scrolling, platform-jumping, ancient pyramid exploring game
abuse http://abuse.zoy.org/ The classic Crack-Dot-Com game
alex4 http://allegator.sourceforge.net/ Alex the Allegator 4 - Platform game
alienblaster http://www.schwardtnet.de/alienblaster/ Action-loaded 2D arcade shooter game
amoebax http://www.emma-soft.com/games/amoebax/ Action-Puzzle Game
armacycles-ad http://armagetronad.sf.net A lightcycle game in 3D
asc http://www.asc-hq.org/ Advanced Strategic Command
astromenace http://www.viewizard.com/ Hardcore 3D space shooter with spaceship upgrade possibilities
auriferous http://auriferous.sourceforge.net/ Game inspired by the classic Loderunner
ballbuster http://www.patrickavella.com/ballbuster.shtml Move the paddle to bounce the ball and break all the bricks
ballz http://code.google.com/p/db-tins07/ Platform game with some puzzle elements
beneath-a-steel-sky-cd http://www.revolution.co.uk/_display.php?id=16 Beneath a Steel Sky - Adventure Game - CD version
blobwars http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/blobWars.php Mission and Objective based 2D Platform Game
bombardier http://packages.debian.org/stable/source/bombardier The GNU Bombing utility
boswars http://www.boswars.org/ Bos Wars is a futuristic real-time strategy game
btanks http://btanks.sourceforge.net/ Funny battle on your desk
bygfoot http://www.bygfoot.com Bygfoot Football Manager
bzflag http://bzflag.org 3D multi-player tank battle game
cdogs-sdl http://lumaki.com/code/cdogs/ C-Dogs is an arcade shoot-em-up
celestia http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ OpenGL real-time visual space simulation
childsplay http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/ Suite of educational games for young children
clanbomber http://clanbomber.sourceforge.net/ Lay bombs and Blast the other players of the field game using ClanLib
colossus http://colossus.sourceforge.net/ Allows people to play Titan against each other or AIs
crack-attack http://www.nongnu.org/crack-attack/ Puzzle action game
CriticalMass http://criticalmass.sourceforge.net/critter.php SDL/OpenGL space shoot'em up game also known as critter
crossfire-client http://crossfire.real-time.com Client for connecting to crossfire servers
crystal-stacker http://www.t3-i.com/cstacker.htm Falling blocks, match 3 or more of the same color crystals
dd2 http://www.usebox.net/jjm/dd2/ Dodgin' Diamond 2 - Shoot'em up arcade game
duel3 http://ts-games.com/duel3.php One on one spaceship duel in a 2D arena
egoboo http://home.no.net/egoboo/ A top down graphical (3D) RPG in the spirit of Nethack
enigma http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/ Clone of the ATARI game Oxyd
escape http://escape.spacebar.org/ Extensible block-pushing puzzle game
extremetuxracer http://extremetuxracer.com 3D racing game featuring Tux
fbg http://fbg.sourceforge.net/ Falling Block Game
fillets-ng http://fillets.sourceforge.net/ Fish Fillets Next Generation, a puzzle game with 70 levels
FlightGear http://www.flightgear.org/ The FlightGear Flight Simulator
flight-of-the-amazon-queen-cd http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php Flight of the Amazon Queen - Adventure Game - CD version
foobillard http://foobillard.sunsite.dk/ OpenGL billard game
freeciv http://freeciv.wikia.com/index.php/Freeciv A multi-player strategy game
freecol http://www.freecol.org/ Turn-based multi-player strategy game
freedoom https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freedoom/ Replacement game files for doom game engines
freedroidrpg http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/ Role playing game with Freedroid theme and Tux as the hero
frozen-bubble http://www.frozen-bubble.org/ Frozen Bubble arcade game
gcompris http://gcompris.net Educational suite for kids 2-10 years old
gemdropx http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/gemdropx Falling blocks puzzlegame
gl-117 http://www.heptargon.de/gl-117/gl-117.htm Action flight simulator
glaxium http://xhosxe.free.fr/glaxium/ An OpenGL space shooter
glest http://glest.org 3D real time strategy game
glob2 http://globulation2.org/ An innovative RTS game
gnubg http://www.gnubg.org A backgammon game and analyser
gnugo http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html Text based go program
gweled http://sebdelestaing.free.fr/gweled/ Swapping gem game
haxima http://myweb.cableone.net/gmcnutt/nazghul.html A full-featured role-playing game for the Nazghul engine (was previously nazghul-haxima)
hedgewars http://www.hedgewars.org/ 2D tankbattle game with the tanks replaced by hedgehogs
kcheckers http://qcheckers.sourceforge.net/ Checkers board game
KoboDeluxe http://olofson.net/kobodl/ 3'rd person scrolling 2D shooter
knights http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php...content=122046 A chess board for KDE
lacewing http://users.olis.net.au/zel/ Arcade-style shoot-em-up
lbrickbuster2 http://lgames.sourceforge.net/ Brickbuster arcade game
lincity-ng http://lincity-ng.berlios.de/ City Simulation Game
liquidwar http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/v5 Multiplayer wargame with liquid armies
lmarbles http://lgames.sourceforge.net/ Atomix clone where you create figures out of marbles
londonlaw http://pessimization.com/software/londonlaw/ Online multiplayer version of a well known detective boardgame
lordsawar http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lordsawar Turn-based strategy game in a fantasy setting
lure http://www.revolution.co.uk/_display.php?id=10 Lure of the Temptress - Adventure Game
machineball http://benny.kramekweb.com/machineball/ A futuristic ball game with simple rules
Maelstrom http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/Maelstrom/ Space combat game
magicor http://magicor.sourceforge.net/ Push ice blocks around to extenguish all fires
manaworld http://themanaworld.org 2D MMORPG world
maniadrive http://maniadrive.raydium.org/ 3D stunt driving game
methane http://methane.sourceforge.net/ Super Methane Brothers
mirrormagic http://www.artsoft.org/mirrormagic/ Puzzle game where you steer a beam of light using mirrors
nethack http://nethack.org A rogue-like single player dungeon exploration game
nethack-vultures http://www.darkarts.co.za/projects/vultures/ NetHack - Vulture's Eye and Vulture's Claw
netpanzer http://netpanzer.berlios.de An Online Multiplayer Tactical Warfare Game
neverball http://icculus.org/neverball/ Roll a ball through an obstacle course
njam http://njam.sourceforge.net/ Maze-game, eat all the cookies while avoiding the badguys
nogravity http://www.realtech-vr.com/nogravity/ Space shooter in 3D
openlierox http://openlierox.sourceforge.net/ Addictive realtime multiplayer 2D shoot-em-up
pachi http://dragontech.sourceforge.net/in...=pachi&lang=en Pachi El Marciano - Platform Game
pinball http://pinball.sourceforge.net Emilia arcade game
pingus http://pingus.seul.org/ Guide the penguins safely home before they drop of the cliff
pioneers http://pio.sourceforge.net/ Turnbased board strategy game (colonize an island)
pipenightdreams http://www.libsdl.org/projects/pipenightdreams/ Connect the waterpipes to create a proper pipeline
pipepanic http://www.users.waitrose.com/~thunor/pipepanic/ A pipe connecting game
planets http://planets.homedns.org/ A celestial simulator
powermanga http://linux.tlk.fr/games/Powermanga/ Arcade 2D shoot-them-up game
pychess http://pychess.googlepages.com/home Chess game for GNOME
PySolFC http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net A collection of solitare card games
quarry http://home.gna.org/quarry/ A multi-purpose board game GUI
raidem http://home.exetel.com.au/tjaden/raidem/ 2d top-down shoot'em up
Ri-li http://ri-li.sourceforge.net/index.html Arcade game where you drive a toy wood engine
rocksndiamonds http://www.artsoft.org/rocksndiamonds/ Underground digging game
rogue http://rogue.rogueforge.net/ The original graphical adventure game
scorched3d http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/ Game based loosely on the classic DOS game Scorched Earth
scorchwentbonkers http://www.allegro.cc/depot/ScorchWentBonkers Realtime remake of Scorched Earth
seahorse-adventures http://www.imitationpickles.org/barbie/ Help barbie the seahorse float on bubbles to the moon
shippy http://www.shippysite.com/ Space invaders / Galaxians like game with powerups
solarwolf http://pygame.org/shredwheat/solarwolf A Python port of SolarFox
sopwith http://sdl-sopwith.sourceforge.net/ SDL port of the sopwith game
stellarium http://stellarium.free.fr/ Photo-realistic nightsky renderer
stormbaancoureur http://bram.creative4vision.nl/stormbaancoureur/ Simulated obstacle course for automobiles
supertux http://supertux.lethargik.org/ Jump'n run like game
supertuxkart http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/ Kids 3D go-kart racing game featuring Tux
taxipilot http://taxipilot.sourceforge.net/ Game where you pilot a taxi in space
tecnoballz http://linux.tlk.fr/games/TecnoballZ/ A Brick Busting game
torcs http://torcs.org/ The Open Racing Car Simulator
tremulous http://tremulous.net First Person Shooter game based on the Quake 3 engine
trackballs http://trackballs.sourceforge.net/ Steer a marble ball through a labyrinth
tuxpaint http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Drawing program designed for young children
tuxpaint-stamps http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Extra stamp files for tuxpaint
tuxtype2 http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/ Tux Typing, an educational typing tutor for children
ularn http://www.ularn.org Simple roguelike game
ultimatestunts http://www.ultimatestunts.nl Remake of the famous DOS-game Stunts
vodovod http://home.gna.org/vodovod/ A pipe connecting game
warzone2100 http://wz2100.net/ Innovative 3D real-time strategy
wesnoth http://www.wesnoth.org Turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme
widelands http://www.widelands.org Open source realtime-strategy game
wordwarvi http://wordwarvi.sourceforge.net/ Side-scrolling shoot 'em up '80s style arcade game
worminator http://sourceforge.net/projects/worminator/ Sidescrolling platform and shoot'em up action-game
wormux http://www.wormux.org 2D convivial mass murder game
xblast http://xblast.sourceforge.net Lay bombs and Blast the other players of the field (SDL version)
xgalaxy http://sourceforge.net/projects/xgalaga/ Arcade game: shoot down the space ships attacking the planet
xmoto http://xmoto.sourceforge.net/ Challenging 2D Motocross Platform Game
zasx http://www.bob.allegronetwork.com/zasx/index.html Asteroid like game with powerups

Gabe Newell has responded to an email asking if Steam for Linux will be released this year with the simple answer 'Yes.' That means at some point in the next 7 months anyone running Linux will be able to download Steam and start playing a number of games, including at least one Valve title (most likely Left 4 Dead 2). After that the emphasis will be on game developers to start porting their Steam games over to Linux. 2012 could be a great year for gaming on Linux. The news follows the revelation in April that Valve was indeed working on a Linux port of its digital games service. At the time though, and as with all Valve software, we had no idea when it would get released

As expected, the debut of Electronic Art’s freemium games on the Ubuntu Software Center made a big impact in May.

Both titles – Lord of Ultima and Command and Conquer - secure the top and second place in the ‘free’ apps top 10 following their much-hyped release last month.

Stainless Games has been fundraising for Carmageddon: Reincarnation, a modern day remake of the classic Carmageddon racing games, on Kickstarter for weeks. Stainless said that if they hit $600,000 in pledges before time runs out, they would commit themselves to creating a Linux port of the game, as well as a MacOS port. Today they made it official: the fundraising has come so close to netting $600K overall, with a few more hours left to go, that they are officially committing themselves to creating a Linux port of the new game. PC gamers will get to play Carmageddon 4 first, with a February 2013 release date. The MacOS & Linux versions will follow the PC version later in 2013.

Valve Software confirmed today in a new blog devoted specifically to Steam on Linux (called Steam'd Penguins) that for more than a year, a Steam client has been in the works for Ubuntu Linux 12.04. 'We've made good progress this year and now have the Steam client running on Ubuntu with all major features available. We're still giving attention and effort to minor features but it's a good experience at the moment. In the near future, we will be setting up an internal beta focusing on the auto-update experience and compatibility testing.' The blog post also says that a working port of Left 4 Dead 2 is currently playable, and that their goal is to bring performance in line with the Windows version

The Valve Linux Team

Our mission is to strengthen the gaming scene on Linux, both for players and developers. This includes Linux ports of Steam and Valve games, as well as partner games. We are also investigating open source initiatives that could benefit the community and game developers.

Initially formed in 2011, the Valve Linux team is currently 11 people and growing. Our mission is to investigate open source development with a specific focus on supporting Steam and other Valve products on the Linux platform. The Linux background of our team varies from those who have a deep knowledge of Linux development to those who have just scratched the surface. However, one thing we all share is a great passion for supporting all things Valve on Linux. If you share that same great passion and think you have what it takes to join our team, let us know!

The goal of the Steam client project is a fully-featured Steam client running on Ubuntu 12.04. We’ve made good progress this year and now have the Steam client running on Ubuntu with all major features available. We’re still giving attention and effort to minor features but it’s a good experience at the moment. In the near future, we will be setting up an internal beta focusing on the auto-update experience and compatibility testing.

Since the Steam client isn’t much without a game, we’re also porting L4D2 to Ubuntu. This tests the game-related features of the Steam client, in addition to L4D2 gameplay on Ubuntu. Over the last few months, excellent progress has been made on several fronts and it now runs natively on Ubuntu 12.04. We’re working hard to improve the performance and have made good progress (more on that in a future post). Our goal is to have L4D2 performing under Linux as well as it performs under Windows.

"Diaspora: Shattered Armistice, the Battlestar Galactica game based on the FreeSpace 2 Open engine, has launched! This cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) release includes the ability to fly the MK VII Viper, the Raptor (or the new MK VIIe strike variant), multiplayer, a mission editor, an original soundtrack, and full voice acting."