Tuesday's Tech Tips: Free and Open Source Games PDF Print E-mail

An enormous selection of free and open source games are available, in just about every genre, and for every taste.

Links mentioned in this week's Tuesday's Tech Tips:

FlightGear Flight Simulator:
http://www.flightgear.org/

FlightGear Flight Simulator Video Tutorials:
http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Video_Tutorials

LinCity-NG:
http://lincity-ng.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Scorched Earth 3D:
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/

Freeciv:
http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Frets on Fire:
http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/

Armagetron Advanced:
http://armagetronad.net/

Cube 2: Sauerbraten:
http://sauerbraten.org/

The Battle for Wesnoth:
http://www.wesnoth.org/

Music:

BS - E_volution
From the album "Best of":
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/56529
Creative Commons Licensed CC-BY 3.0

Images:

.| Future |. by Clix
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/487218/
Stock.xchng License

Various Screenshots of all Games
Featured in this Video
by the respective developers
GPL Licensed

Boeing 777-200ER with KLM livery in FlightGear 2.0
by JcHnd
GPL Licensed

Frets on Fire Mascot Jurgen
by Spira12
GPL Licensed

Freeciv
by Hima
GPL Licensed

Freeciv
by qwm
GPL Licensed

LinCity-NG Screenshots
by WolfgangB
GPL Licensed

LinCity-NG Bridges
by Varivar
GPL Licensed

Scorched 3D Screenshots
by Gavin Camp
GPL Licensed

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