SIGs/Games/WishList

Fedora Games WishList

• 0 A.D. - GPL2 code and CC-BY-SA content RTS
• AmiGoGtp - Text based (GTP) Go player. Best together with GoGui.
• aleph one - GPL first person shooter, full data can be freely (gratis) downloaded (use autodownloader)
• Dungeonhack - A very ambitious nonlinear 3d rpg at the demo stage
• fgrun - A graphical frontend to run FlightGear Flight Simulator. srpm spec (builds in mock in F12 x86_64)
• freeorion - moo rewrite
• Fuego - Text based (GTP) Go player using Monte-Carlo tree search. Best together with GoGui.
• GoGui is a graphical user interface to programs that play the board game Go and support the Go Text Protocol, such as gnugo and Fuego.
• LGames - LTris should be renamed perhaps to be included (it is now in RPM Fusion). LGeneral cannot be packaged - requires abandonware files. Barrage, LBrickbuster2, LMarbles, LPairs are in Fedora.
• Micropolis - Freed version of SimCity
• NAEV - 2D space shooter. GPLv3 code, mixed-license media (PD / GPLv2 / GPLv3 / CC-By (and By-SA) 3.0)
• oolite - elite remake - under review
• Quake 3 based games that uses bundles a early version of the Xreal engine
• Race into Space - full opensource release of a once closed source game, including vorbis sounds / music and theora videos!
• Teeworlds - free online multiplayer game with various modes, such as Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag.
• tyrquake - Conservative Quake 1 engine (initial SRPM, needs desktop entry/icon, integration with autodownloader for data files)
• UFO2000 is free and opensource turn based tactical squad simulation multiplayer game.
• Unknown Horizons Unknown Horizons is a 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy.(needs the FIFE engine)
• Vacuum - Vacuum Magic is a fast-paced action game. The point of the game is using your magical vacuum field to collect food and defend against monsters. Food and certain monsters can also be spat out and used as a projectile against other monsters.
• Xreal is baseed on Quake 3. Just a engine for now

Games with Dead upstream or other issues

The packaging of the following games is not recommended. The packager should be able to fix any reported bugs. In some cases upstreaming them may not possible so a lot of downstream patches will have to be included in the package, revival or forks of the projects are other options.

• automaniac - 3d car deathmatch game
  • Last Release: August 2006
  • Last Commit: July 2008

• BabyChess
  • Last Release: March 2005

• Battles of Antargis - goodlooking free RTS Upstream is not dead, but it's not very active
  • Last Release: December 2007
  • Last Commit: July 2009

• Bloodmasters - Arcade, oldschool multiplayer and bloodshed.That's what the game Bloodmasters is about. Play with friends on your LAN or online and experience this oldschool top-down shooter. The game supports Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture The Flag and Scavenger game modes. The game is completely freeware and without ads, spyware or other unwanted garbage.
  • Last Release: February 2008
  • Last Commit: No public VCS

• Biniax-2 puzzle game with higly original game mechanics (will need to be patched to look for datas elsewhere than beside the binary, preliminary spec here, feel free to grab)
  • Last Release: v1.30 released in May 2009
  • Last Commit: No public VCS

• brickshooter - puzzle game
  • Last Release: May 2008
  • Last Commit: No public VCS

• ClanShip - battleship game (source)
  • Dead Upstream

• Dave Gnukem - platform game inspired by Duke Nukem 1 (might be too similar)
  • Last Release: August 2004

• gillo is a two player game in a 3D ellipsoid playground
  • Last Release: July 2005
• Go Ollie Nice platform game using TuxCap
  • Last Release: June 2009 - Upstream active
  • Last Commit: No public VCS
  • May not compile on x86_64

• Kraptor is a classic shoot 'em up scroller game, where you must fight against tons of bad dudes (will need to be rebranded, raptor is a trademark for a very similar game).
  • Last Release: April 2004

• Operation Citadel - Operation Citadel is a WWII, turn based platoon, company level war game on the Eastern Front. The game is somewhere in between CLose Combat® and Steel Panthers®.
  • Last Release: Unknown. Seems old
  • Last Commit: No public VCS
  • source is distribute as MSVC 6.0 project, I guess it will not compile, upstream seems dead

• Open Quartz Free GPL data combined with the Quake 1 GPL engine
  • Last Release: Aug 2004

• Open Raider. Not sure if it'd qualify, but it's a Tomb Raider clone.
  • Last Commit: 2004

• Peg Solitaire - A simple peg-jumping game similar to Hi-Q. No idea if Hi-Q has trademark protection.
  • Last Release: Jan 2008

• Race - 3D top view racing game
  • Last Release: Jan 2003

• Snowballz - fun RTS game (with penguins!) Review Request (cancelled)

• Super Transball 2
  • Last Release: 2005

• toppler - climb (jump) up a tower while avoiding the badguys
  • Last Release 2007
  • Unfinished package, grab it if you like : SPEC SRPM

• tux-football - 2d soccer game
  • Last Release: Nov 2004

• VoR - Dodge rocks until you die. "it's fast-paced, difficult and addictive." -- Linux Format
  • Deesn't seem active I may be wrong

• XShipWars A 2d Multiplayer Space battle game.
  • Uses ESD, so it needs to be cleaned up for PulseAudio compatibility or would need to also package developers own YIFF Sound System, http://freshmeat.net/projects/yiff and their own JSW joystick support program, http://freshmeat.net/projects/libjsw
  • Upstream doesn't seem active
• Zatacka - arcade multiplayer game for 2-6 players on one keyboard
  • Last Release: 2007
  • Last Commit: Oct 2007
  • Review request

References

* http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Suggested