Debian Games Project
Summary
Games-text
Debian Games Text Games

The principal virtue of these games is their simplicity. They will run on any hardware, and some of them are simple enough to control so that very young children can enjoy them (e.g. snake)

The list to the right includes various software projects which are of some interest to the Debian Games Project. Currently, only a few of them are available as Debian packages. It is our goal, however, to include all software in Debian Games which can sensibly add to a high quality Debian Pure Blend.

For a better overview of the project's availability as a Debian package, each head row has a color code according to this scheme:

If you discover a project which looks like a good candidate for Debian Games to you, or if you have prepared an unofficial Debian package, please do not hesitate to send a description of that project to the Debian Games mailing list

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Debian Games Games-text packages

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Animals
Traditional AI animal guessing engine using a binary tree DB
Maintainer: Alberto Á. Fuentes
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gametoys
interfacecommandline
roleprogram
usegameplaying
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License: DFSG free

You think of an animal, and this package tries to guess it... when it's wrong, you teach it about your animal.

To be more flexible and help educational aspect this game does not contain an initial database. This also allows it to be used for non animals like guessing of tools or locations.

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Bsdgames
collection of classic textual unix games
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Debtags of package bsdgames:
gametoys, simulation, rpg, puzzle, board, adventure
interfacetext-mode, commandline
roleprogram
suitebsd
uitoolkitncurses
usegameplaying
Popcon: 347 users (86 upd.)*
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License: DFSG free
Git

This is a collection of some of the text-based games and amusements that have been enjoyed for decades on unix systems.

It includes these programs: adventure, arithmetic, atc, backgammon, battlestar, bcd, boggle, caesar, canfield, countmail, cribbage, dab, go-fish, gomoku, hack, hangman, hunt, mille, monop, morse, number, pig, phantasia, pom, ppt, primes, quiz, random, rain, robots, rot13, sail, snake, tetris, trek, wargames, worm, worms, wump, wtf

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2.17-16http://screenshots.debian.net/screenshots/b/bsdgames/616_large.png
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Moon-buggy
Drive a car across the moon
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gamearcade
hardwareinput:keyboard
interfacetext-mode
juniorarcade
roleprogram
uitoolkitncurses
usegameplaying
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License: DFSG free

Moon-buggy is a simple character graphics game, where you drive some kind of car across the moon's surface. Unfortunately there are dangerous craters there. Fortunately your car can jump over them!

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Moon-buggy-esd
Drive a car across the moon (version with sound)
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gamearcade
interfacetext-mode
juniorarcade
roleprogram
uitoolkitncurses
usegameplaying
works-withaudio
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License: DFSG free

Moon-buggy is a simple character graphics game, where you drive some kind of car across the moon's surface. Unfortunately there are dangerous craters there. Fortunately your car can jump over them!

This version includes experimental support for sound and thus requires a soundcard to run!

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Nettoe
networked version of Tic Tac Toe (3x3 Grid) for the console
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interfacetext-mode
roleprogram
usegameplaying
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License: DFSG free
Svn

NetToe is a console-based version of the classic game "Tic Tac Toe". It's playable against computer AI, a player on the same machine or with another player over the network. It uses a simple 3x3 board.

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Zivot
the game of life, simple console version
Maintainer: Radovan Garabík
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roleprogram
usegameplaying
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License: DFSG free

This is a variant of John Horton Conway's Game of Life (a classic cellular automaton), simple console version, written in FORTRAN.

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