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Watching World Cup

footty – command-line tool for querying football.db

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Games

footty is a CLI tool for querying football.db, an open football database covering national and international football leagues and cups.

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World Cup 2026

Claudinho – follow the World Cup from the terminal

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Claudinho is a command-line tool for following the 2026 World Cup from a terminal, Claude Code statusline, or MCP client.

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Watching World Cup

Terminal Eleven – terminal user interface for following the FIFA World Cup 2026

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Games, TUI

Terminal Eleven is a terminal user interface for following the FIFA World Cup 2026 from the command line.

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World Cup

Golazo – follow football games

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Games, TUI

Golazo is a minimalist terminal user interface (TUI) for following football matches in real-time.

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Linux Chess Apps

18 Best Free and Open Source Linux Chess Apps

May 10, 2026 Steve Emms Games, Roundup

Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. It’s a very popular game, played by millions across the world.

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Linux Chess Apps

Obsidian Chess Studio – chess analysis platform

May 10, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Obsidian Chess Studio is a modern chess analysis application designed for players who want to study games, explore positions.

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Game Tools

Dolm – Lights Out like puzzle game

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Dolm is a Lights Out-style puzzle game written in the OCaml language.

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Utility Software

Quizbite – small GNOME app to create and play quizzes

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Quizbite is a small GNOME application for creating, managing, and playing quizzes.

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Game Tools

Plutonic – suika-like / spuntika-like game

April 26, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Plutonic is a physics-based puzzle game where players launch planets into a gravity field and try to combine them.

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Video-Emulators

Missingno – Game Boy emulator and debugger

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

Missingno is a Game Boy emulator and debugger written in Rust.

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Game Tools

Puzzled – GNOME desktop application for solving daily tile-placement puzzles

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Puzzled is a GNOME desktop application for solving daily tile-placement puzzles inspired by Puzzle a Day.

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Arcade Games

Phantom Overload – atmospheric first person shooter game

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Phantom Overload is an atmospheric first person shooter built with Godot for Linux and Windows.

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Video Games

Xjump – reimplementation of the classic Xjump game

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Xjump is an arcade platform game where you keep climbing while the tower beneath you collapses.

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Card Games

Solitaire – play patience games

April 9, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Solitaire is a lightweight GNOME application that provides a simple implementation of classic solitaire card games for the Linux desktop.

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Sports Games

NetStats Baseball – simulation of Major League Baseball

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms Games

NSB is a simulation of Major League Baseball. It is a client/server application written in C.

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Shooter Games

Tower Oops! – tower building game

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Tower Oops! is a modern GTK4 port of the classic “Crazy Towers”, rewritten in Rust.

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Games

t-story – falling block puzzle game

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms Games

t-story is a falling block puzzle game using using Godot Engine 4.5.1+.

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Gaming Chat

Blue Nebula – fork of Red Eclipse 1

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Blue Nebula is a fast-paced arena shooter project derived from the Red Eclipse 1.x series.

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Game Engines

DOORS – pixel art logic game

March 14, 2026 Steve Emms Games

DOORS is a pixel art logic game that’s written in the JavaScript.

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Gaming Chat

7 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Discord Clients

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI, Internet, Roundup

Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media.

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