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This article is the second instalment in a three part series, identifying games that are worth giving a whirl. We have again tried to cover a wide range of game genres. Hopefully there will be something in this article which will be of interest to any type of gamer.
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Monsterz is a small arcade-style puzzle game similar to Bejeweled, Zookeeper and Zooo. Swap monsters on a board in order to create alignments.
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XWelltris is a 2.5D tetris like game. The idea of this game originated from the Russian programmer Pogitnov.
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Amoebax is a multi-platform Puyo-style puzzle game where the objective is to beat your opponent in a battle.
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Trackballs is a simple game similar to the legendary game Marble Madness on the Amiga released in the 80’s.
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Pioneers is a GNOME computer implementation of the Settlers of Catan board game. It can be played over the internet.
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Drunken Dwarves is a member of the classic “falling blocks” puzzle game family, similar to the Capcom game, Puzzle Fighter.
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levelHead is an interactive spatial memory cube game. levelHead uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface.
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Linux has a prodigious library of free games many of which are released under an open source license. A large proportion of these open source games are eye catching. Popular games often have full motion video, vector graphics, 3D graphics, realistic 3D rendering, animation, texturing, a physics engine, and much more. Early computer games did not have these graphic techniques. The earliest video games were text games or text-based games that used text characters rather than vector or bitmapped graphics.
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