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2pong
 

2Pong 0.6

License: GPL

Information: This Pong clone is played with two balls instead of one. The game features three modes of play: classic Pong, a time-based mode against an unbeatable AI opponent and a two-on-two mode. Network support is available for one-on-one games.
 

3D Pong
 

3D Pong 0.4

License: GPL

Information: 3D Pong is a twist on the classic game of Pong. Playable by one or two people, each player controls their paddle, trying to keep the ball from going past them. Multiple viewpoints, user definable options and a split Red/Blue mode for real 3D are only a few of the features of this game.
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3D worms
 

3D Worms 1.0 Rating:

License: Shareware

Price: $10.00

Information: In this game, you are a worm, and you don't want to run into your own body or the edge of the game board. You do want to eat the apples, however. The only problem is that your body gets longer as time goes on.
 

Addlibs
 

Addlibs.py is a game based on a similar game available for the Apple Macintosh. You create amusing stories or nursery rhymes by replacing the real words with words you enter in.

Homepage http://www.scheol.hm/projects/AddLibs/ 

Author Coltrey Mather
Version 0.1
Licence free for non-commercial use
Source Yes
Environment Console
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Angband
 

Angband is a single-player rogue-like dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems.

Homepage http://thangorodrim.angband.org/ 
Author Robert Ruehlmann
Version 3.0.0
Licence free for non-commercial use
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Blackjack
 

Blackjack is the only game offered by casinos, where it is proven that players can beat the dealer on the long term. Many books and articles have been published about this theme, however most of them are written to make you loose money. The only way of having a moderate advantage over the dealer is to carefully analyze the remaining cards in the shoe, placing variable bets and deciding when to stay or buy, double or split. BBJD is a tool to analyze the best strategy depending on the current card distribution in the shoe. It is distributed to work with a simple text-based interface and with a user-friendly web-based interface.

Homepage http://bbjd.tiscover.com/ 
Author Jacob Rief 
Version 1.0.2
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
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BOF Server
 no info Bomb O Bomb
 

Bomb ô Bomb is a clone of bomberman which features a graphical setup, and many cute little extras (like Tux running across the screen randomly). Bomb ô Bomb is the first game using the Addon technology that enables anybody to change and complete the game easily. The powerful engine of the game ties interpreted solutions to core-modification ability, so non-programmers can modify their game in any way they can imagine, and C++ programmers can complete the core without knowing all the sources. For example, a level can be created in less than 20 minutes with an image found on the net, or an addon (<20k) can complete the game with an option (no limitation to the possibilities of the option), without downloading a release version.

Homepage http://david.fauthoux.free.fr/ 
Author David Fauthoux 
Version 1.0.9
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

bomb squad
 

Bomb Squad Beta 3

License: GPL

Information: Bomb Squad is a strategy game for Linux in its early stages of development. It most closely resembles the game Worms.
 

Bullucks
 

Bullucks is an experimental chess program. It is not based on the Shannon algorithm.

Homepage http://www.vanheusden.com/vanheusd/bullucks/ 
Author Folkert van Heusden
Version 1.0
Licence free for non-commercial use
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable Go To Top Index

BW Admin
 

BW-Admin is the BarrysWorld bot detection & admin plug-in for Quake2 and KingPin servers.

Homepage http://bw-admin.sourceforge.net/ 

Author Zarjazz 
Version 1.72
Licence QPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Cadaver
 

Cadaver is a simulated world of cyborgs and nature in realtime. The battlefield consists of forests, grain, water, grass, carcass (of course) and lots of other things. The game server manages the game and the rules. You start a server and connect some clients. The clients communicate with the server using a very primitive protocol. They can order cyborgs to harvest grain, attack enemies or cut forest. The game is not intended to be played by humans! Instead the idea is that you write artificial intelligence clients to beat the other artificial intelligences.

Homepage http://www.erikyyy.de/cadaver/ 
Author Erik Thiele
Version 1.0.1
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable Go To Top Index
 

CCP
 

Cpp1 is an experimental chess program written in C++. It's the successor to "bullucks" with a new design and new algorithms.

Homepage http://www.vanheusden.com/vanheusd/cpp1/ 
Author Folkert van Heusden 
Version 1.1012
Licence free for non-commercial use
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development

Chessclock
 

Angus' Chess Clock is a curses/GTK+ chess clock. It features seperately adjustable times for each player.

Homepage http://www.gusnet.cx/proj/chessclk/ 
Author Angus Mackay
Version 0.8.1
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
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Cnibbles
 

cNibbles is a curses based version of the old nibbles game (also known as snake). Your object is to control the worm and help it eat apples distributed on the playing area. You can play it in the terminal without X11 or in xterm and such. Features include highscore, replays and different speeds.

Homepage http://cnibbles.sf.net 
Author Daniel Aarno
Version 1.0
Licence AFL, GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Coffee Talk
 

coffeetalk is a script to aid in the beverage choosing process.

Homepage http://www.geocities.com/connorbd/coffee 
Author Brian Connors 
Version 1.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
 

Console Othello
 

console othello is an Othello-style board game running on a text console. The AI is not brilliant and the game is simple, but several improvements are planned, including support for a web version and network play. The source should (theoretically) compile on any platform supporting printf() and fgets(): Linux, Solaris, Windows, BeOS, etc.

Homepage http://david.weekly.org/othello/ 

Author David Weekly
Version 0.03
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable Go To Top Index

Corewar
 

Corewar Virtual Machine is a virtual machine for running Corewar games, written in Java.

Homepage http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/ 

Author Frank Denis 
Version 1.0
Licence Freeware
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Crafty
 

Crafty is a state-of-the-art computer chess program. It is full featured, plays a good game of chess, and source code is freely available.

Homepage ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt 

Author Dr. Robert Hyatt
Version 16.19
Licence freely distributable
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Crossword
 

cwc is a crossword compilation program which is able to fill a crossword grid with words from a word list. The algorithm is a cleverly optimized brute force method.

Homepage http://www.cs.auc.dk/~larsch/cwc/ 
Author Lars Christensen
Version 1.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
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crtools for eressea
 

crtools is a collection of small tools that read the computer reports of Eressea, Verdanon and Rorqual, a family of free play-by-email games. The tools currently allow merging of reports, stripping information from a report, and the creation of simple ASCII maps. For further information on Eressea, see http://eressea-pbem.de/.

Homepage http://eressea.upb.de/crtools/ 
Author Enno Rehling 
Version 1.2.11
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Crue Cat
 

Crue Cat is a console game where you and another person box it out over the internet. It has some crude animation but it's rather humorous. Crue Cat supports dynamic character loading and comes with a few characters built in such as the infamous Hot Dog man, Shaft, and many more. It's not a very complex game and not very hard either.

Homepage http://www.afro-productions.com/ 

Author Matt Miller 
Version 1.00
Licence freely distributable
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Curtris
 

My first attempt to create an actual game!! It's a small tetris game using curses.h Instructions come with the package.It works best in the shell or the gnome terminal or the terminal (super user mode). It also works with all the other types but i haven't tested it yet. I think its works well enough though. Now added colours!!

Homepage http://saougos.tripod.com 
Author Saougos Dimitrios 
Version 1.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
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Darkland
 

Dark Lands is a multiplayer RPG made fully with ANSI graphics. The source code is in Pascal. Currently, this game has probably no point except exploring the areas and killing monsters. It can be used as a BBS door game.
 
Homepage http://darklands.cx/ 
Author Nuitari 
Version 0.19
Licence LGPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development

DeuTex
 

DeuTex is a wad composer for Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Strife. It can be used to extract the lumps of a wad and save them as individual files. Conversely, it can also build a wad from separate files. When extracting a lump to a file, it does not just copy the raw data, it converts it to an appropriate format (such as PPM for graphics, .au for samples, etc.). When it reads files for inclusion in pwads, it does the necessary reciprocal conversions. In addition, DeuTex has functions such as merging wads, etc.

Homepage http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/deutex/ 

Author André Majorel 
Version 4.4.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Diverse Tetris versies

NCT is curses based color-extended tetris game. You can choose the number of colors and in case of 1 color you get the classic game. See README for details.

Homepage
Download ftp://ftp.yars.free.net/pub/software/unix/games/tetris/ 
Author Alexander V. Lukyanov
Version 1.1
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
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DopeWars
 

dopewars 1.5.8

License: GPL

Information: This game contains mature content. No one under 18 should play this game. This is a strategic simulation.

Dopewars is a UNIX rewrite of a game that was originally based on Drug Wars by John E. Dell. Deal drugs on the streets of New York and amass a huge fortune to pay off your loan shark, while avoiding the ever-present olice. The UNIX rewrite, in addition to featuring a so-called antique mode that closely follows the original, introduces new features like the ability to take part in multi-player games.
 

Flight gear
 

The Flight Gear Flight Simulator project is a free, open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight sim development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GPL. The Flight Gear project is working to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for the development and pursuit of interesting flight simulator ideas. We are developing a good basic sim that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing.
Homepage http://www.flightgear.org/ 

Author Curtis L. Olson
Version 0.7.7
Licence GNU General Public License (GPL)
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Forrest Gump
 

fortune-fgump is a collection of quotes from the movie "Forrest Gump" for use with the fortune program.

Homepage http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=8519 
Author Andreas Gohr
Version 1.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
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Fortune Simpsons
 

fortune-simpsons-chalkboard is a collection of Bart Simpson's chalkboard-writings from the opening credits of episodes of the television show "The Simpsons", packaged up for use with the fortune program.   Homepage http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=8519

Author Andreas Gohr Version 1.0 Licence GPL Source Yes Environment Console Status Stable

Freecell solver
 

Freecell solver is a 100% ANSI C program that automatically solves Freecell games.

Homepage http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/freecell-solver/ 
Author Shlomi Fish
Version 0.6
Licence Public Domain
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Freechess
 

RoboFICS is a program that will allow a chess engine like Crafty to interface to Internet Chess Servers like freechess.org.

Homepage
Download ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/Unix 

Author Henrik Oesterlund Gram 
Version 1.4.5
Licence OpenSource
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable Go To Top Index

FreeSweep
 

freesweep is a console minesweeper-style game written in C for *nix. The ncurses library is preferred, but standard System V curses will work almost perfectly. Features include boards up to 1024x1024 and saving & loading of boards. Planned features include mouse support through ncurses, shared and individual "best times" files, and color.

Homepage http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~hartmann/sweep/ 
Author Gus Hartmann
Version 0.87
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development

fscktris
 

Fscktris is a patch for e2fsprogs-1.18 that presents you with a Tetris clone game to play while fsck does its work.

Homepage http://www.movement.uklinux.net/fscktris/fscktris.html 

Author John Levon 
Version 1.18-0.1
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
 

Galaxis
 

This is a curses-based clone of Christian Franz's game Galaxis for the Macintosh. A logic puzzle -- you must drop probes in space to locate four lifeboats from a distressed interstellar liner. Can you locate them all before you run out of probes and they run out of oxygen?

Homepage http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/software.html 

Author Eric S. Raymond 
Version 1.2
Licence OpenSource
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable Go To Top Index

GalaxyNG

Galaxy is a game of interstellar war for several players. Players start of by sharing an area of the galaxy with a number of other players and the objective is to become its sole occupant. The is done by designing and building ships, waging war, and colonizing planets. Players send in orders and receive a turn report a couple of times per week. This package contains the server that processes the orders and generates the turn reports. The clients (to graphically view turn reports) are available elsewhere.

Homepage http://galaxy.pbem.net/index2.html 

Author The GalaxyNG Development Team
Version 4-4a
Licence free for non-commercial use
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
 

GeekCode
 

The Geek Code Generator will generate a geek code block for you by asking you a series of questions about yourself. The generated code can be pasted into your .sig or anywhere else you would like to display your geekiness.

Homepage http://geekcode.sourceforge.net/ 
Author Chris Gushue
Version 1.7
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
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Gfortune
 

gfortune is a replacement for the traditional Berkeley fortune program included with the BSD games package. This implementation supports recursion down a tree of fortune files, the option to limit the number of lines output (for scripting), and other features. It fully maintains the functionality of the original. It includes the author's own archive of fortune files. Homepage http://www.anarres.org/c/gfortune.html 


Author Shevek <shevek_AT_tirin_DOT_openworld.co.uk>
Version 1.0.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
 

GNU Chess
 

GNU Chess lets most modern computers play a full game of chess. It has a plain terminal interface but supports visual interfaces such as X-Windows "xboard" and Windows-for-PC "winboard" as well as a full 3-dimensional wooden chess-board protocol for the Novag Chess board enabling one to be relatively free of the computer itself.

Homepage http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html 


Author Stuart Cracraft
Version 5.00
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

GNU pong
 

GNUPong 0.14 Rating:

License: GPL

Information: This is a version of Pong that runs through ncurses.Go To Top Index
 

Gnugo
 

GNU Go is free program that plays the ancient board game of Go. Its original concept is based on the article "Programming the Game of Go", Byte, Vol.6 No.4, by J. K. Millen. GNU Go has since evolved into a more sophisticated program. After thousands of games played on the No Name Go Server (NNGS), it is rated around the 15 kyu level.

Homepage http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/ 


Author GNU go development team
Version 2.7.243
Licence GNU General Public License (GPL)
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

GnuRobots
 

GNU Robots is a game/diversion where you construct a program for a little robot, then watch him explore a world. The world is filled with baddies that can hurt you, objects that you can bump into, and food that you can eat. The goal of the game is to collect as many prizes as possible before you are killed by a baddie or you run out of energy.

Homepage http://www.gnu.org/software/robots/robots.html 


Author Jim Hall
Version 1.0D
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
 

Gravity
 

orbit7 is a program for your personal amusement. It simulates a star with many orbiting bodies around it. You can move the dials to change the physical constants and watch how the system changes in real time.

Homepage http://www.red-bean.com/software.html

Author Mike Sussman
Version 1.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Gnome
Status Stable

GTlevel
 

gtlevel generates levels for the game "Rush Hour" from Binary Arts Corporation. It is mainly a development version, but is quite usable. It generates decks in gtraffic format.

Homepage http://www.luc.ac.be/Research/Algebra/Members/Gtlevel/gtlevel.html 


Author Michel Van den Bergh 
Version 0.4
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable Go To Top Index

GWrap
 

Gwrap is a linux dedicated server monitoring tool. It will start servers upon startup, monitor them and restart them if they fail. It also allows insertion, deletion, and listing of servers while it is running.

Homepage http://www.yps.org/gwrap/ 

Author Mark Jaeger
Version 1.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
 

Hackers
 

Hackers will let you keep a list of NetHack characters and switch between them easily. It remembers name, race, role, and alignment, as well as favored pet type, cat, dog, and horse name, and favorite fruit. Hackers also has a new character creation system that displays descriptions of each role and race.

Homepage http://www.sacredchao.net/software/hackers 


Author Joe Wreschnig
Version 0.3.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
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Halflife admin
 

Half-Life Admin MOD is a plugin module to any Half-life mod that adds admin commands and user levels. You no longer have to risk giving out rcon access. It is very flexible to configure, supports reserving nicknames/playerslots on servers, and offers public kick and map voting.

Homepage http://halflifeadmin.sourceforge.net/ 


Author Alfred Reynolds
Version 1.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Halflife game server
 

This is a Linux dedicated server for Half-Life games.

Homepage http://www.sierrastudios.com/games/half-life/
Author Valve Software
Version 1.0.1.6
Licence proprietary
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status StableGo To Top Index

Helenic
 

Hellenic fortune cookies are a Greek-language addition to a system's fortune file.

Homepage http://kronos.eng.auth.gr/~arvan/fortunes/ 
Author Athanasios Emilios Arvanitis
Version 1.9.00
Licence free for non-commercial use
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Homer quotes
 

The "Quotable Homer" fortune file is a text file filled with Homer Simpson quotes that have appeared in the "Quotable Homer" daily calendar.

Homepage http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~crcarter/homer/homer.html 
Author Clayton Carter
Version 0.9
Licence free to use but restricted
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable Go To Top Index

HTserver
 

htsserver is the server application for Holsham Traders, a realtime multiplayer trading game. In the game, you are a merchant on a distant planet trying to make as much money as possible by buying and selling goods.

Homepage http://htsserver.sourceforge.net/
Author Uwe Hermann
Version 0.5.7
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development

Infinity
 

Infinity is a roguelike game in which the player explores an infinite maze and fights against trolls, goblins, and rats, in order to collect various treasures. Either NCurses (console) or GTK+ (X11) views can be built with the makefile.

Homepage http://taoriver.net/~lion/ 
Author Lion Kimbro
Version 1.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

L Fire
 

L-Fire CTF is a server-side mod that adds many significant features to Id's official Quake2: Capture the Flag (CTF). The L-Fire CTF charter is to not change the fundamental game or balance of Id's CTF. Instead, this mod adds many much needed improvements and bugfixes to the game. L-Fire CTF includes such features as match support, rocket arena overtime, sudden death overtime, anti-spam, highscore lists for each level, team balancing, IP banning, custom map loops, permissions for admin users, profanity filtering, and various logging options.

Homepage http://www.planetquake.com/LFire/ 

Author Kai Kenner (L-fire)
Version 1.20
Licence free for non-commercial use
Source Yes
Environment Console
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LAGII
 

LAGII lets you run AGI games natively under Linux. AGI games include the Sierra classics such as Kings Quest, Space Quest, etc. Most games don't work fully, but they work quite well most of the time.

Homepage http://www.zip.com.au/~gsymonds/LAGII/ 

Author David Symonds 
Version 0.1.5
Licence freely distributable
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development

Lfire2
 

L-Fire DM is a server-side mod that adds many significant features and bugfixes to Quake2. L-Fire DM includes such features as organized match support, anti-spam, highscore lists for each level, IP banning, custom map loops, permissions for admin users, profanity filtering, and various logging options. L-Fire DM is built on the same source base as L-Fire CTF. Currently, conditional compilation is used to create separate CTF and DM mods. After more CTF options are added to L-Fire DM (such as techs, grappling hook, etc.), L-Fire DM and L-Fire CTF will be released as a single integrated mod.

Homepage http://www.planetquake.com/LFire/ 
Author Kai Kenner (L-fire) 
Version 1.20
Licence free for non-commercial use
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Linberto
 

Linberto is a jump around arcade game. Main features include nice graphics, music, sound fx, english/spanish language support, runtime help and setup, built in level editor and much more. Source code and ELF binary are included in the distribution.

Homepage http://www.grigna.com/diego/linux/linberto/ 
Author Diego Javier Grigna <diego_AT_grigna_DOT_C.O.M>
Version 1.0.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Linpyro
 

LinPyro is a multiplayer game where you run around a 2d building with other people and try to kill them with strategic firestarting. Features include multiplayer client-server model with no (known) limit on the number of players, a realistic physics engine that carefully simulates real fire, user creatable maps, a fair scoring system, and textmode graphics using all of the colors available to differentiate the different materials in the building.

Homepage http://petertodd.ca/
Download http://petertodd.ca/linpyro.php

Author Peter Todd
Version 0.22
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Linux Snipes
 

Linux Snipes is a reimplementation of an old text-mode DOS game. You are in a maze with a number of enemies (the "snipes") and a few "hives" which create more of the enemies. Your job is to kill the snipes and their hives before they get the best of you.

Homepage http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~boultonj/snipes.html 
Author Jeremy Boulton
Version 0.9.1
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development Go To Top Index
 

Markoff
 

markoff is a program to generate random text, based on the style of one or more files provided as examples.

Homepage http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/markoff/ 

Author Richard Curnow
Version 1.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Moon buggy
 

Moon-buggy is a simple character graphics game, where you drive some kind of car across the moon's surface. Unfortunately there are dangerous craters there. Fortunately your car can jump over them!

Homepage http://www.hangout.de/moon-buggy/index.html 

Author Jochen Voss
Version 0.5.1
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

MUDix
 

MUDix is a simple MUD client that runs in a console with ncurses. It supports aliases, triggers, variables, and lots more. Although still under development, it is very stable. Suggestions and remarks are welcome.

Homepage http://dw.nl.eu.org/ 
Author Marko Boomstra 
Version 4.2
Licence Freeware
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable Go To Top Index
 

NetHack
 

NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems.

Homepage http://www.nethack.org/ 

Author NetHack development team
Version 3.3.0
Licence free for non-commercial use
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Netpong
 

netPONG 0.2

License: GPL

Information: netPONG is network-playable version of Pong with enhancements. netPONG is playable over the Internet with different modes and tournaments.

Additional Software Required: SDL
 

NetToe
 

netToe is a Tic Tac Toe-like game for the Linux console written in C using UNIX sockets. It is playable by 2 players over the network, against computer AI, or against another player on the same machine.

Homepage http://nettoe.sourceforge.net/ 
Author Gabriele Giorgetti
Version 1.0.6
Licence GNU General Public License (GPL)
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
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Nibbles
 

Nibbles is a remake of the classic Snake/Nibbles game in ncurses. It features a high score board and cunning ncurses graphics.

Homepage http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/nibbles.html 

Author Toby Jaffey
Version 0.0.4
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development

NotwhoamI
 

notwhoami generates a random name, address, phone number, and birthdate.Homepage http://notwhoami.sourceforge.net/
Author Saber Taylor
Version 0.99
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status StableGo To Top Index

Obsidian
 

Obsidian is an extensible virtual world system with a fullblown multiplayer client-server architecture. It is not a VRML2 world system (there are fundamental computer graphics reasons why VRML worlds will always be slow), though there are plans to include VRML2 as a world data format.

Homepage http://www.zog.net.au/computers/obsidian/  z 

Author Duncan Robertson
Version 1.9.1a
Licence Artistic
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development

Overkil
 

0verkill is a client-server 2D deathmatch-like game in ASCII art. It supports free connecting/disconnecting during the game, and runs well also on slower lines. Graphics are in 16-color ASCII art with elaborate hero's animations.

Homepage http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~brain/0verkill/ 

Author Petr Kulhavy
Version 0.4
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development Go To Top Index

oz3 wbots
 

Oz Deathmatch is a modification for Valve Software's first person shooter Half-Life. Oz allows server admins to customize numerous game parameters via a set of configuration files instead of having to switch game libraries. Customizations include runes, off-hand grappling hook, weapon behavior, in-game level editing, Capture The Flag, and lots more.

Homepage http://www.planethalflife.com/oz/ 

Author Oz Deathmatch Team 
Version 2.5
Licence freely distributable
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Pakman diverse
 

Hatman is a Pacman clone to run on svgalib or ggi. Hatman does or will support drop in gamefile support, Level and Sprite editors in the main distribution, running on linux/svgalib or linux/ggi and in future dos and windows as well as high resolution graphics and raytraced graphics.

Homepage http://croftj.net/~hatsoft/hatman/ 
Author James Pharaoh
Version 0.5.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable Go To Top Index

Ping
 

Ping is the official tennis simulator of the US army. It is a fast graphic action game featuring bonuses and sweat carebears. Ping can be played against the computer or another human player.

Homepage http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/
Author Frank DENIS
Version 0.95
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development

Pong 3D
 

Pong 3D 0.8.5

License: GPL

Information: This is a 3D Mesa version of Pong with two-player support.

qclock
 

qclock is a small clock application which gives you the time in a form similar to that which you'd get if you asked a friend (or in some cases, enemy) "what's the time?".

Homepage http://www.nethack.net/qclock 

Author Robert Pearce / mrq 
Version 1.0
Licence freely distributable
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable Go To Top Index

Quadra
 

Quadra is an addictive puzzle game and competitive, action-packed multiplayer game all-in-one. It features incredibly smooth gameplay, recursive line clearing allowing blocks to combine in violent chain reactions, block shadow to help you drop blocks with precision 10 levels with colorful background images and matching sound effects, integrated CD music player, worldwide highscore table with recordings of your best performances, fully configurable multiplayer mode with team play, keep an eye on your opponents with the remote watch windows, chat window, powerful and flexible user interface TCP/IP support for internet or LAN multiplayer games and more.

Homepage http://ludusdesign.com/quadra.html 

Author Ludus Design
Version 1.1.1
Licence Shareware
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Quake launch
 

QuakeLaunch is an ncurses based console application which can download Quakeworld servers and display them sorted by ping time, server name, IP, players, max players, or mapname. You can launch your net game from the program as well.

Homepage http://www.linuxgames.com/qlaunch/ 

Author Mark Landis 
Version 0.06
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development Go To Top Index
 

Quake source
 

This is Quake's source code.

Homepage http://www.idsoftware.com/archives/sourcearc.html 

Author ID Software
Version 1.x
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Quake2
 

Quake 2 is a commercial 3D action game from id software, the makers of Doom. It is a shooter with a first-person perspective, in Doom's tradition. The game comes with two display methods: Software Rendering and OpenGL. Software rendering supports, X11, SDL and aalib (text!), OpenGL uses GLX or SDL OpenGL. OpenGL accelleration is available to anyone with working GLX acceleration.

Homepage http://www.icculus.org/quake2/ 

Author ID Software
Version 3.21+
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment X11
Status Stable Go To Top Index

Quakeforge
 

QuakeForge is a project created for the purpose of maintaining and extending Id Software's Quake source releases. Steps are being taken to clean, spank, and re-fashion the Quake code with an eye on portability, backwards compatibility, threading, network enhancement, 3D enhancement, sound enhancement, playability, software rendering enhancement, SDL extensions, QuakeC extensions, XDGA, and possible new features (if they do not break backwards compatibility). An attempt will be made to provide free maps/textures/models/etc. QuakeForge is in need of developers.

Homepage http://quakeforge.net/ 
Author Id software and the QuakeForge team.
Version 0.1.1
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
 

Quakeworld
 

QuakeWorld is an Internet multi-player specific version of Quake. While the original version of Quake can be played over the Internet, many users modem users - the majority of players, had less than satisfactory play. Symptoms like excessive lag - actions actually happening much later than you did them; packet loss - the game would freeze and resume several seconds later; and various other difficulties plagued users. QuakeWorld is optimized for the average modem Internet player. It does only 1 thing, play deathmatch games over a TCP/IP network such as the Internet. It has no support for solo play, and you can't do anything with out connecting to a special server.

Homepage http://www.quakeworld.net
Author Dave 'zoid' Kirsch
Version 2.30
Licence free to use but restricted
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable Go To Top Index

Realmlifes
 

Realmlifes is a fantasy roleplaying game in which each non-player character is AI-controlled. It's not a one-hero hack 'n slash game, every character in the game is equal, they talk, fight, group, learn and wage war together.

Homepage http://www.xs4all.nl/~edtx/realmlifes/index.html 
Author dentoir 
Version 0.08
Licence Artistic
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development

Seatris
 

seatris is a tetris clone. It features colour, configurable keys and a high score table.

Homepage http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/seatris.html 

Author Jonathan McDowell
Version 0.0.14
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Silly Poker
 

silly Poker is a simple yet comprehensive player vs. computer console poker game, written in C++.

Homepage http://www.colby.edu/personal/kmradlof/poker.html 

Author Kevin Radloff 
Version 0.25.4
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable Go To Top Index
 

Sisi
 

Do You like sokoban? have You been looking for some sokoban game for Your best beloved console? You have just found it:) Almost full customization and multi-undo are just small piece of features.

Homepage http://offtza.republika.pl/ 

Author OffTza the Sheep
Version 1.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development
 

Slashem
 

Slash'EM (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic) is a variant of the hugely popular roguelike game NetHack. It adds more monsters, more objects, more dungeon levels, more roles, and more races, shopkeeper services, techniques for you to use, invisible objects, an improved warning system, and gypsies for those who feel lucky. It also comes with a GTK windowing interface and a 32x32 tile set as options.

Homepage http://slashem.cjb.net/
Author Warren Cheung
Version 0.0.5E7F1
Licence freely distributable
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
 

smaug
 

SMAUG (Simulated Medieval Adventure multi-User Game) is a MUD codebase built from the source code of DikuMUD. It features include easy-to-use online building (OLC), complete with shops, resets, and repairshops, equipment that actually gets damaged, mob programs, smart monsters that will remember you, hunt you down, and summon you, levers, switches, doorchains, and traps. As far as interactivity between players goes, it is above average with integrated clans, player killing, guilds, orders, and councils. Internal code also includes special languages to be spoken by members of unique races. It also also allows you to dig and bury items, as well as a full deity system! SMAUG isn't for creating a MUD, it's for creating your own world.

Homepage http://www.game.org/smaug/
Author Thoric
Version 1.4
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status StableGo To Top Index

Space Plumber
 

Space Plumber is a 3D game, where you must find and activate the water extraction pumps from a maze of corridors before water level increases, swamping everything. There are console (svgalib) and X11 versions available.

Homepage http://www.triptico.com/en/splumber/
Author Angel Ortega
Version 1.0.5
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable
 

Spel Master
 

SpellMaster is a play-by-email game about magical struggle in a world of diplomacy, intrigue and power.Online Game

Homepage http://www.lemuria.org/SpellMaster/
Author Tom Vogt
Version 1.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Squishy bugs
 

Squishy Bugs is a console-based game, much in the vein of the X game xbill. Bugs crawl up your terminal and the aim is to squish them by pressing any mouse button with your cursor over the bug. Squished bugs appear as a '*' until another bug passes over this character of the terminal.

Homepage http://vergenet.net/linux/squishy_bugs/
Author Horms
Version 0.0.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status StableGo To Top Index
 

Star shooter
 

Star Shooter is a simple game involving a set of crosshairs, an asterisk, and some arrow keys. The player uses the arrow keys to move the crosshairs after the asterisk. when both crosshairs go red, the player hits the space bar to shoot the asterisk, thereby incrementing their current points by one.

Homepage http://www.angelfire.com/alt/pats_linuxstuff/index.html
Author Pat O'hara
Version 0.1.0
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Stock Simulator
 

Stock-simulator is a stock-trading simulator and a game. At some point in the future, it could be a full-featured server that can be used in the real world. Currently, it is far from that objective and strives to be a game, where players can connect and quote, buy, and sell. There is a Game of Life simulator too, to influence changes in the market.

Homepage http://members.tripod.com/viralbs/
Author Viral
Version 0.61
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Sumus
 

SuMus is a Spanish cards game played by 4 folks around a table. SUMUS is a server for playing mus over Internet. The project is just the server, but Java applet and Linux console clients are provided. The game is only in Spanish.

Homepage http://sumus.sourceforge.net/
Author Antonio Garcia
Version 0.2.2
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development

Tangorodrim
 

ZAngband is a single-player rogue-like dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems.

Homepage http://thangorodrim.angband.org/
Author Robert Ruehlmann
Version 2.2.8
Licence free for non-commercial use
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status StableGo To Top Index

Tarotserveur
 

Tarotserveur is a server for the Tarot card game.

Homepage http://ymettier.free.fr/tarotserveur/tarotserveur.html
Author Yves Mettier
Version 0.1
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development

Tinyfugue
 

TinyFugue is a popular MUD client, originally designed for TinyMUSHs (but can be used for other MUD types, too). It supports three different types of string matching for triggers/actions/whatever: direct comparison, globbing (shell wildcarding), and regular expressions.

Homepage http://tf.tcp.com/~hawkeye/tf/
Author Ken Keys
Version 4.0s1
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

Tornado
 

Tornado is a clone of a C64 game. The goal of the game is to destroy the opponent's house with certain weather phenomena: rain, snow, hail, lightning, and the tornado.

Homepage http://www.lionking.org/~kiza/linux/tornado/
Author Oliver Feiler
Version 1.2
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

TTYquake
 

Textmode Quake (ttyquake) exactly what it sounds like, the classic game quake, played in textmode. Works in VTs, as, xterms (or some other variant) in X, and even telnet.

Homepage http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/
Author Bob Zimbinski
Version 0.4.2
Licence GPL
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status StableGo To Top Index

umodunpack for unreal tournament
 

umodunpack is a Perl script to unpack umod files for Unreal Tournament, or view info on umod files.

Homepage http://www.deepsky.com/~misaka/
Author Mishka Gorodnitzky
Version 0.4beta
Licence Freeware
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development

UMR
 

UMR rips Music and Sound class objects from .umx and .uax files in Unreal or Unreal Tournament. It rips all the exports in the file that it understands (currently 'xm', 'it', 's3m', and 'WAV').

Homepage http://pages.cthome.net/chrismp/umr/
Download
Author Andy Ward
Version 0.3
Licence OpenSource
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Development

VMS Empire
 

VMS Empire is the C port of the original FORTRAN solitaire game which was the ancestor of all the multiplayer mpire games out there.

Homepage http://www.catb.org/~esr/vms-empire/
Author Eric S. Raymond
Version 1.4
Licence BSD type
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status Stable

wscr
 

wscr is a program to print all permutations of a string, solve word jumbles, and generate pseudo-anagrams.

Homepage http://hood.sjfn.nb.ca/~eddie/wscr.html
Author Eddie Buckley
Version 1.2
Licence BSD type
Source Yes
Environment Console
Status StableGo To Top Index

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