Description:
heXon is a FOSS twin-stick-shooter for up to four players created using the Dry game engine.
Games and Gaming
One Hour One Life
Description:
A multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building
Nightfall
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.
JSkat
Description:
JSkat is a free implementation of the German card game Skat in Java and Kotlin. It runs on Linux, Mac OS and Windows.
Dagor Engine
Description:
Dagor Engine and Tools source code from Gaijin Games KFT
Seven Kingdoms
Description:
Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries is the real-time strategy game designed by Trevor Chan, now freely available and maintained by the community.
LGames
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.
Performous
Description:
An open-source karaoke, band and dancing game where one or more players perform a song and the game scores their performances. Supports songs in UltraStar, Frets on Fire and StepMania formats. Microphones and instruments from SingStar, Guitar Hero and Rock Band as well as some dance pads are autodetected.
Boohu
Description:
Break Out Of Hareka’s Underground (Boohu) is a turn-based coffee-break roguelike game with a heavy focus on tactical positioning mechanisms. This focus strongly influenced its weapon attack patterns, consumables and terrain features. Aiming for a replayable streamlined experience, the game avoids manual inventory management and complex character building, relying on items and player adaptability for character progression.
Stockfish
Description:
Stockfish is a free and strong UCI chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1 that analyzes chess positions and computes the optimal moves. Stockfish does not include a graphical user interface (GUI) that is required to display a chessboard and to make it easy to input moves. These GUIs are developed independently from Stockfish and are available online. Read the documentation for your GUI of choice for information about how to use Stockfish with it.