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Free and Open Source Board Games

KMahjongg – tile matching game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

KMahjongg is a mahjongg solitaire game for KDE. Mahjongg is a famous ancient chinese puzzle game. It’s a free and open source game.

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Kigo – implementation of the popular Go game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Kigo is an open-source implementation of the popular Go game.

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KFourInLine – board game for two players based on the Connect-Four game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

KFourInLine is a board game for two players based on the Connect-Four game.

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gnubg – strong backgammon game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

GNU Backgammon (gnubg) is a strong backgammon program (world-class with a bearoff database installed).

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Kajongg – classical Mah Jongg for four players

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Kajongg is the classical Mah Jongg for four players. Kajongg comes with a ruleset for classical chinese as played in Germany.

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Bovo – Gomoku like game for two players

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

In Bovo you need to connect five of your own pieces in an unbroken row vertically, horizontally or diagonally.

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Monitor System

htop – interactive process viewer

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

htop is an interactive and real time process monitoring application similar to the venerable top utility. This application is written in C.

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atop – ASCII full-screen performance monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor, similar to the top command, but atop only shows the active system-resources and processes.

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gotop – terminal based graphical activity monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gotop is a terminal base graphical activity monitor which seeks inspiration from gtop and vtop.

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sysstat – collection of performance monitoring utilities

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The sysstat utilities are a collection of open source performance monitoring tools for Linux. Utilities include mpstat, iostat, nfsiostat-sysstat.

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collectl – performance monitoring tool

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

collectl is a lightweight open source performance monitoring tool capable of reporting interactively as well as logging to disk.

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Role-Play Games

Tuxemon – monster-fighting RPG

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Tuxemon is a a monster-fighting RPG. The game is in a fairly early stage of development.

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Role-Play Games

The Mana World – an innovative free and open source MMORPG

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

The Mana World (TMW) aims to create an innovative free and open source Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

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Illarion – MMORPG

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Illarion is a persistent fantasy game world with the technology of Europe in the 11th century. It features elves, wizards and demons.

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FreedroidRPG – role playing game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

FreedroidRPG is a mature, single player, open source, sci-fi isometric 3D role playing game offering an immersive ambience backed by refined graphics.

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Flare – 2D action RPG

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Flare (Free/Libre Action Roleplaying Engine) is a simple, open source, single-player 2D-isometric action RPG engine.

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FreeDink – adventure/role-playing game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

FreeDink is a portable and enhanced version of the Dink Smallwood game engine. Dink Smallwood is an adventure/role-playing game, similar to Zelda.

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Daimonin – free to play open source MMORPG

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Daimonin is a free and open source software multiplayer online computer role-playing game that is based on the open source Crossfire.

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Crossfire – free cooperative multiplayer graphical RPG and adventure game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Crossfire is a multiplayer graphical arcade and adventure game made for the X environment with gtk installed.

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Ardentryst – fantasy platformer RPG

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Ardentryst is an action/RPG sidescroller, focused not just on fighting, but on story, and character development. Strategy as well as reflexes are needed.

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