Libre game - 100% free as in freedom game
"Battle for wesnoth" it's a gna (gnu) game. Thyer site is here: http://www.wesnoth.org/
Installation:
sudo apt-get install wesnoth
Oh yeah, I know this game and like it very much. though it's very hard, or I'm just bad :)
Greetings, I also want to share the existence of other libre games:
http://arianne.sourceforge.net/game/stendhal.html
This games are not well-known but they are good.
All of them are rpg's.
It would be good to take advantage of this post and mention our favorite free as in freedom games.
Spacezero v0.84 (A 2D Real Time Strategy space combat game)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spacezero/files/
It is in Trisquel repo but not in this version.
Hello.
Thank you for tell us about the existence of a wiki for "free as in freedom" games onpon4.
In my opinion, the whole gaming genre is a bit of the "problem child" of the free software movement.
Thinking of normal software, free software can compete in a quite acceptable way with most proprietary software; for example libreoffice with microsoft office.
But the game sector is a totally different thing.
There evolved a gaming universe on an extremely high level of quality; games like zelda, final fantasy, metal gear solid; they're all part of a culture, older than 15 years.
There are some free games, but very little of them are good, and hardly anyone of it can compete with "real games", which are all proprietary.
Games like "shadow of the colossus" are real art, and there's no alternative in the free world.
I don't quite understand why things are like this. Game developers would "loose" much less than normal developers, because they don't have to free the whole art of the game, only the code;
I do agree with you.
The bigger problem are not from the developers but from the producers instead.
The companies insist to have control over the customers like they were livestock.
I have planned to post some things about the new generation of consoles and how they gain control progressively over time... this is ridiculous.
It is very tempting to play the proprietary games due to the quality of the artistic content but they are going too far.