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| September 11, 2009
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Jigsawlite – A Simple Free Jigsaw Puzzle Game

Want to make own digital photos into your original jigsaw puzzle games? Well, Jigsawlite does it in a blink of an eye.

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Though there are plenty of apps out there, what makes Jigsawlite different is that its an Adobe AIR app that is simple to install, easy to use, drag-and-drop and play.

Features

  • Easy-to-use drag-and-drop-and-play: Rich and simple user interface allows you to directly and quickly import an image file into the application by a single drag-and-drop action.
  • Automatic Tesselation: It automatically breaks up your source image into optimized number of pieces around 50p and produces well-tesselated jigsaw
  • Durable jigsaw puzzle game: The game playable on the application is a rather traditional and durable drag-and-drop jigsaw puzzle game consisting of nearly-freely-rotatable pieces. You can use the mouse-wheel to rotate the pieces and alt-mouse wheel to zoom-in and zoom-out
  • Customizable background: The game provides option to choose between various background preference like paper, linen , canvas etc. The auto save functionality saves the state of the game automatically. Read more here.

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Download here and play. Its quick to install and free.

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| September 10, 2009
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7 Easy To Install And Play - Free Adobe AIR Games

We had earlier featured some interesting Adobe AIR applications for Flickr fans. In this post we look at some simple, easy to install games that are similar to the simple DOS based games that we would have played in the past. They are Adobe AIR version, easy to install and quick to play. These games are are not as intricate as the games we had featured earlier.

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1. Lines 2 Puzzle Game

One of the most addictive games that you will easily get hooked on to. The game’s objective is to make as many lines a possible, by lining a minimum number of elements horizontally, vertically or diagonally (or combined). The minimum number of elements can be set in the game’s settings board and it varies between five and seven (seven is recommended for larger board sizes). The elements are colored in seven different colors, chosen as different as possible.

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You can install the software from here. Its free.

2. Blob Attack Game

You have a small black and yellow ship that fires missiles and shoot the yellow blob, black torpedos, mutant ameba that fires little guided green starfish missile. You can use the arrow keys to move the ship. This game is in beta currently.

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Download this from here. Its free.

3. Creeper World

Creeper World is a unique and fresh look at Defense, RTS, and Management based games. What is different from this game from the other Tower Defense games, RTS games is that it has a new kind of enemy.

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It has a free demo to try and buy a full version.

4. SuDoQ

If you like playing SUDOKU, this is a must try application. You can play SudoQ games, save templates and share templates with friends.

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Download the software here. Its free.

5. PacMan

This is the Adobe AIR version of the original PacMan game that you would have played on DOS.

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Download it here. Its free and quick to play.

6. Classic Snake Game

This is a simple game of Snake that you would have played before. It lets you to select a speed then use your arrow keys to attempt and eat the apple(red block). But watch out for the walls! At any time you can pause the game by pressing the space bar.

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Its free and download it here.

7. JavaScript Tetris

This is the classic falling blocks game written in JavaScript.

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Its free. Download here and play.

Well, try these games and let us know if you like them.

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| August 21, 2009
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10 Highly Addictive Open Source and Free 3D Shooter Games - Part 1

In our earlier post we had covered 12 Free Open Source Games That You Do Not Want To Miss and 10 More Free Open Source Games.

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Recommended Reading.

Here we look at 10 Free Open Source First Person Shooter 3D games that are extremely addictive.

1. Cube

Cube is an open source multiplayer and single player first person shooter game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine. It combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping.It Uses OpenGL & SDL.

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Operating System: Officially supported platforms (client & server) are win32, Linux & bsd (x86), Mac OS X (ppc) and Pocket PC (xscale), and includes source code (open source: ZLIB license)

Download the game here

2. Cube 2: Sauerbraten

Cube 2: Sauerbraten is a free open soure multiplayer / single player first person shooter, built as a major redesign of the Cube FPS.

Much like the original Cube, the aim of this game is not necessarily to produce the most features & eyecandy possible, but rather to allow map/geometry editing to be done dynamically in-game, to create fun gameplay and an elegant engine.

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Operating System: Windows, Linux, Ma OS X

3. AssaultCube

AssaultCube (formerly ActionCube), is a free first-person-shooter based on the game Cube. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as possible, while game play stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer fun. A lot of effort has gone in to the making of AssaultCube – 9 developers, a $1 million cost with countless hours of hard work. It is a must try for every 3d game lover and open source enthusiast.

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Operating Systems: 64-bit MS Windows, All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), OS Portable (Source code to work with many OS platforms), Linux, OS X, Vista, Win2K, WinXP, Microsoft Windows Server 2003

4. Fight Win Prevail

Fight Win Prevail (or FWP for short) is a free open source multiplayer first person shooter.

The game is set in an imaginary universe where fearless pilots fight to the death with their futuristic vehicles. Gameplay lies somewhere between the Mechwarrior-series and Quake 3. It is faster and more action-orientated than in Mechwarrior, but tries to avoid the ‘jump-around-like-crazy-and-fire-at-everything-that-moves’-gameplay known from Quake 3.

Fight Win Prevail is a pure multiplayer game and does not have a real singleplayer mode. Primary target are LANs, but the game is playable over the internet, too.

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Operating System: Windows, Linux

Download the software here.

5. FreeDoom

Its a free open source Doom game powered by Doom Engine. In FreeDoom, a Doom WAD file is used instead of the copyrighted file from the original Doom and Doom II.

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Operating System: GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, other POSIX, Windows

Download it here.

6. Bzflag

Bzflag is a open source OpenGL multiplayer battle zone capture the flag game. Its a 3D first person tank simulation game.

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Operating System: Windows, Linux,

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Download it here.

7. Alien Arena

The goal of Alien Arena is to create the perfect marriage between Quake and Unreal Tournament, between retro sci-fi and futuristic tech, and between casual gamer and advanced expert, and wrap it up in a package with quality that could rival that of commercial games. Alien Arena claims to have one of the most active, loyal, and committed communities of any free game in existence.

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Operating System: Windows, Linux, Ma OS X

Download it here.

8. Marathon

Marathon is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game published and developed by Bungie Software. It is released as freeware and the code is available under GNU GPL.

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Operating System: Originally developed for MAC but ported to Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and BSD

Download the software here.

9. Nexuiz

Nexuiz is a free open source first person shooter game. Nexuiz is a fast paced 3d deathmatch game project created online by a team of developers called Alientrap.

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Operating System: Windows, Mac, and Linux

Download the software here

10. OpenArena

OpenArena is a Free Open content package for the id tech3 GPL source code package. OpenArena is a violent, sexy, multiplayer first person shooter based on the ioquake3 fork of the id tech 3 engine. It has many game types beyond deathmatch and a lot of characters. Due to violent and racy content, it may not be suitable for children under 17.

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Operating System: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows

Part II coming soon..

Any guess for Part II?

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| August 21, 2009
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Cube 2 – An insane Open Source and Free 3D Shooter Game for Every Doom/Quake Lover!

Open Source 3D Shooters are just becoming smarter and more graphic rich! We were just great fans of Quake series of id software and nowimage there are more than a handful of neat 3D shooter games are available as Free and Open Source. But, Cube 2 - Sauerbraten is the one that stands out prominently. We would call it the most insane and graphic rich 3D Shooter game that you would ever see! Breathtaking sceneries are a treat to your eyes. Of course it is based on the earlier Cube 3D engine but a lot of original work has been put together to release Cube 2. 

  • Cube 2 - Sauerbraten is really a fast paced game with Quake like Arena with Bots or Multiplayer support. Bots are quite intelligent and gives a realistic feeling. Cube 2 runs on a modest PC configuration, a 1GHz or higher CPU, at least 256MB RAM or higher, A GeForce Graphics Card (6600 or higher recommended).
  • Many multiplayer gameplay modes, most in teamplay variants as well: deathmatch, instagib, efficiency, tactics, capture etc.
  • Two singleplayer modes: DMSP (fight a monster invasion on any DM map), classic SP (progression driven SP like other games)
  • 7 weapons tuned for maximum satisfaction: double barrelled shogun, rocket launcher, machine gun, rifle, grenade launcher, pistol, fist.

Here is screenshot of CPU performance on an Intel Quad Core PC with 3GB RAM. CPUs are hardly loaded at full resolution.

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  • Cube 2 really has pleasant graphics with beautiful texture mapping.
  • Cube 2’s Sober Metal Music Tracks are nice

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Download Cube 2 here. It works on Linux, Windows as well as Mac OS.

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Category: Games, Open Source | Tags: , ,
| August 19, 2009
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10 More Free Open Source Games that you would not want to miss

After a great response to our earlier post of 12 free open source games, in this post we cover some fantastic 10 addictive open source games that every gamer would easily get hooked onto. For 3D Shooter games, take a look at the 10 Highly Addictive Open Source and Free 3D Shooter Games - Part 1

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1. The Battle for Wesnoth

The Battle for Wesnoth is a free open source turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. You build up a great army by gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. Later in the game, you recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom no one can stand! Choose the units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all types of opposition.

The world of Wesnoth is very huge and limited only by your creativity. You can make your own custom units, compose your own maps, and write your own scenarios. You can also challenge up to 8 friends - or strangers - and fight in epic multi-player fantasy battles.

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Operating System: GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOSX, RISC OS, BeOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, AmigaOS4, OS/2 & eComStation compatible

Download it here.

2. Tremulous

Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based first person shooter with elements of a real time strategy. Players can choose from 2 unique races i.e aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like a real time strategy. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more…
Player advancement is different depending on which team you are on. As a human, players are rewarded with credits for each alien kill. These credits may be used to purchase new weapons and upgrades from the “Armoury”. The alien team advances quite differently. Upon killing a human foe, the alien is able to evolve into a new class. The more kills gained the more powerful the classes available.

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The overall objective behind Tremulous is to eliminate the opposing team. This is achieved by not only killing the opposing players but also removing their ability to respawn by destroying their spawn structures.

Operating System: Windows, Linux

Download the files here.

3. War§ow

War§ow is one of the best open source first-person shooter game designed to play online. There are many many games that were inspired by War§ow but still War§ow has been very unique. The Gameplay focused on speed, trick jumps and the art of movement.

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Operating System: Windows, Linux and Mac

Download the game here.

4. Scorched 3D

Scorched 3D is a simple turn-based artillery game that is free and open source. It is also a real-time strategy game in which players can counter each others’ weapons with other creative accessories, shields and tactics. Scorched 3D incorporates a lively three dimensional landscape that includes animated jets, naval vessels, water, and even birds, in addition to detailed tanks and projectiles. Scorched 3D is actually a modernization of the classic DOS game Scorched Earth “The Mother Of All Games” on which it is based.. One can play over LAN and internet play.

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Operating System: Microsoft windows (2K, Me, XP, 98, 95), Linux (Redhat, Mandrake, etc.), Mac OS X (ppc >= 10.4), Gentoo Linux and Debian Linux (Ubuntu)

Download the software here.

5. Armagetron Advanced

Armagetron a free open source software multiplayer game in 3d that attempts to emulate and expand on the lightcycle sequence from the movie Tron. It’s an old school arcade game slung into the 21st century. Highlights include a customizable playing arena, HUD, unique graphics, and AI bots.

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Operating System: Windows, Linus, Ma OS X and BSD

Download the software here.

6. Nexuiz

Nexuiz is a free open source first person shooter game. Nexuiz is a fast paced 3d deathmatch game project created online by a team of developers called Alientrap.

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Operating System: Windows, Mac, and Linux

Download the software here.

7. Freeiv

Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. The game commences in prehistory and your mission is to lead your tribe from the stone age to the space age. Its a turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal “ To become the greatest civilization”.

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Operating System: Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

Download the software here.

8. Alien Invasion

Alien Invasion is a free game, licensed under GNU GPL, heavily inspired by the X-COM series by Mythos and Microprose. It is is a strategy game featuring tactical combat against hostile alien forces which are about to infiltrate earth at this very moment. You are in command of a small special unit which has been founded to face the alien strike force. To be successful on the long run, you will also have to have a research team study the aliens and their technologies in order to learn as much as possible about their technology, their goals and the aliens themselves.

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Operating System: Windows, Mac, and Linux

Download the source here.

9. FlightGear

FlightGear Flight Simulator is free open source matured, sophisticated, open-source flight simulator software package, created and maintained entirely by volunteers. The goals of the FlightGear project include creating a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application.

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Operating System: Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris and IRIX

10. Complete Annihilation

Complete Annihilation is a game for the Spring RTS engine. It traces its heritage to Total Annihilation (often referred to as Original Total Annihilation or OTA), a 1997 PC RTS by Cavedog Entertainment. However, CA is not OTA. It is gradually moving away from OTA, replacing the copyrighted models and textures with open-source ones while refining and improving the gameplay. CA aims to be a dynamic, action-packed, hassle-free game, full of clever strategies and constantly moving combat.

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Operating System: Linux

The procedure for download can be found in this site

Are there any better games that you would like to be in the list?

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