Free games commentary & compendium

[charlieg]

I maintain a commentary and compendium on Free Software games. I hope it's evolving into an invaluable resource for the open source games community.

Check out the list at freegamer.blogspot.com and let me know what you think.

[fingal]

It looks good to me, though I play very few games now. I really like flight sims, so I might have a go at Flightgear. Flying a plane from the comfort of your armchair is good fun!

[stubbe]

Great stuff. Added a link to your blog to mine. Mine is in indonesian, just started.

http://revolutionality.blogspot.com

[charlieg]

I have since posted two specials:

Open Source Game Engines

Open Source 3D Space Games

[dapperone]

I've visited the site and like it. Can you point to a help page for installing games for a newbie?

[charlieg]

There's plenty of Ubuntu-specific resources. If a game isn't in synaptic then hopefully either there's a .deb (sudo apt-get install foo.deb), .rpm (sudo alien foo.rpm; sudo apt-get install foo.deb), or an autopackage (chmod ugo+x foo.autopackage; sudo ./foo.autopackage) available for it otherwise things start to get a little more complicate.

Search the Ubuntu forums for specific help. There's some good links in the 'Gaming Central' section.