Nightfall

License: GPLv3


Description:

Nightfall is a game made by Piga Software for Halloween 2022 and updated for Halloween 2023. It is a scrolling shooter where the player armed with a shotgun faces attacks from various monsters and has to dodge or shoot them, before facing a final battle with a vampire at the five minute mark. It was written in Gambas 3.17.3 and uses Qt 5 for windowing and SDL 2 for audio. Graphics are sourced from the CC0 library from Openclipart with sounds from the public domain portion of Freesound with music from OpenGameArt.org. Development tools used include the Gambas IDE, Inkscape, Audacity, KolourPaint on top of Fedora GNU/Linux. The 1.5.0 update added a splash screen, main menu, help screen, various options, multiple new enemies and a beast mode that activates if the player gets a kill streak; a bug fixing point release was uploaded on November 1st.

LGames

License: GPL


Description:

LGames is a collection of Linux games (that’s what the L stands for), released under the GNU GPL. However, most of the games have been ported to different platforms by now. This includes MacOS X, BeOS, NetBSD, Win32, Solaris and others, depending on the game. The base for all games is the excellent Simple DirectMedia Layer, short SDL, written by Sam Latinga, as well as some extensions for it like the SDL_mixer library.