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Curse of War – fast-paced action strategy game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Curse of War is a fast-paced action open source strategy game for Linux originally implemented using an ncurses user interface.

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Brogue – roguelike game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Brogue is a direct descendant of Rogue, a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman around 1980.

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ASCIIpOrtal – text based puzzle game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

ASCIIpOrtal is a text based puzzle game inspired by the popular video game. In ASCIIpOrtal you overcome challenges by placing portal way-points.

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Scrabble3D – highly customizable Scrabble game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Scrabble3D is a highly customizable Scrabble game that not only supports Classic Scrabble and Superscrabble but also 3D games and own boards.

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PyTraffic – Rush Hour board game clone

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

PyTraffic is a Python version of the board game Rush Hour. The goal of the game is to get a red car out of a six-by-six grid.

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Mahjongg – solitaire (one player) version of the classic Eastern tile game, Mahjongg

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Mahjongg is a solitaire (one player) version of the classic Eastern tile game, Mahjongg. The objective is to select pairs of similar tiles.

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KShisen – solitaire-like game played using the standard set of Mahjong tile

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

KShisen is a solitaire-like game played using the standard set of Mahjong tile but with only one layer of scrambled tiles.

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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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Monitor System

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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Monitor System

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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Monitor System

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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Monitor System

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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