With so many young children currently unable to follow their usual routine of going to school, playing with friends, and undertaking many hobbies, it’s vital to keep them happy and learning.
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Category: Games
Linux Candy: tetris – terminal interface for Tetris
tetris is a terminal interface for Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Retro Gaming – Week 17
For this week, I’m going to look at a few retro games, all nestling in Raspbian’s repositories. Free and open source gaming.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Emulate Home Computers – Week 15
Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s. Emulate home computers on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Terminal Phase – space shooting game in your terminal
Terminal Phase is a space shooting game that runs in your terminal. It’s free and open source written in the Racket programming language.
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Ninslash – a great fun open source 2D platform game needs YOU!
Ninslash is a free multiplayer 2D survival shooter based on another game called Teeworlds, a highly revered retro multiplayer shooter. Read why you should download Ninslash today!
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Best Free Linux Home Computer Emulators
This article focuses on software which emulates home computers, a class of personal computer which reached the market in the late 1970s, and became immensely popular in the following decade, selling many millions of units. Leading home computer companies included Commodore, Sinclair, Atari, Apple, Acorn, Tandy Radio Shack, and Amstrad.
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Best Free Linux Video Console Game Emulators
This article selects the best free and open source software to emulate classic video consoles, such as the Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Wii, Sega Mega Drive, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, and many others.
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Genesis Plus GX – open-source Sega 8/16 bit emulator focused on accuracy and portability
Genesis Plus GX is a Sega multi-system emulator originally for the Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii.
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Best Free Linux SNES Emulators
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (also known as Super NES, SNES, or Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit video game console. Nintendo released it in Japan in November 1990 as the Super Famicom (or SFC). The Super Nintendo was the best-selling 16-bit game console of its era, despite a late start and competition from the Sega Genesis.
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piu-piu – retro horizontal scroller ‘Shoot Them All’ game
piu-piu follows in the footsteps of well-traveled games. It’s a terminal based horizontal scroller game. There’s absolutely no fancy graphics, or immersive effects here. It’s ASCII graphics on the console.
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5 Sparkling Game Engines – develop great cross-platform games
Game engines play a crucial role in the fast creation and development of computer games. As they offer a collection of visual development tools, and are often presented in an integrated development environment, they vastly accelerate the development of games.
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StingRay – simple chess graphical user interface
StingRay is a new entry in the field of Linux-based chess software. It’s billed as a simple chess graphical user interface with basic functionality to run against UCI and XBoard engines.
The software is designed to be lightweight and not burden the chess player with features they’ll never use.
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football-cli – World Cup football on the command line
If you’re a big fan of the command-line, what better way to keep track of the latest World Cup scores and standings with a small command-line utility. Let’s take a look at one of the hottest trending football utilities available. It’s goes by the name football-cli.
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Best Free Voice Chat Software for Linux Gaming
It’s estimated that more than 1.4 billion people play computer games, with about 750 million of them participating in online gaming. That’s a colossal market for Linux to tap. The design of online games is diverse, ranging from simple text-based environments to the incorporation of complex graphics and immersive virtual worlds.
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5 Best Open Source Board Games to Play Online
I had a panache for abstract strategy games such as chess and draughts, as well as word games. I can still never resist a game of Escape from Colditz, a strategy card and dice-based board game, or Risk; two timeless multi-player strategy board games. But Catan remains my favourite board game.
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Serena – point-and-click adventure game
Serena is a free short point-and-click adventure. It is the result of a massive collaborative effort between dozens of fans and designers of adventure games
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The Plan – experimental video game
The Plan is a free little experimental video game. You’re a fly… and you fly. Nominated for Nordic Game Indie Night 2013.
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Team Fortress 2 – first-person shooter multiplayer video game
Team Fortress 2 is a free-to-play team-based first-person shooter multiplayer game. A sequel to the original mod Team Fortress and its GoldSrc engine remake
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Dwarfs!? – arcade/strategy game
Dwarfs!? is a free arcade/strategy game set deep underground. Explore a vast, randomly generated dungeon, protecting your home town from harm.
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