Tracking Linux-games that lack ebuilds (new thread)

corrosif · Apprentice Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 199 Location: France

Numpty Physics, a free clone (GPL) of Crayons Physics.
Seems amazing!

Official site:
http://numptyphysics.garage.maemo.org

Video:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=h_meXQyPHmw
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corrosif · Apprentice Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 199 Location: France

Gravity Bone, an opensource game based on Quake2 engine.
Is a short but really funny secret agent story, with a cartoon atmosphere.
Engine does not seem modified, so it shall work on linux.

Official site:
http://www.blendogames.com

Video:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf4xng9IxjY
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gimpel · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:30 pm Post subject:

This also needs an ebuild:
http://www.smokin-guns.net/ - a Western style total conversion of Quake 3

EDIT: Darn, corrosif was faster on this one

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lazy_bum · l33t Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 691

Zucca · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:04 am Post subject:

I'd like to see Vega Strike on Portage. :)
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bobdva · Apprentice Joined: 25 Nov 2003 Posts: 207 Location: Moscow

Zucca · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:52 am Post subject:

Delete games-emulation/gens and replace it with Gens/GS.
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lazy_bum · l33t Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 691

Zucca · Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 7:06 pm Post subject:

There's already sixth milestone of Gens/GS. Seems to work just fine except when trying to go full screen when OpenGL resolution > screen resolution == Gens/GS exits.
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FlumMmicH · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 58 Location: Sweden

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup

ebuild for both svn trunk and latest stable: https://bugs.gentoo.org/83217
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Letharion · Veteran Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 1344 Location: Sweden

Heroes of Newerth:
http://heroesofnewerth.com/
Awesome Dota-style game.

The installer isn't publicly available yet however.
I asked on the beta forums if I'm allowed to share the installer or not, with people who are better suited to writing ebuilds

Letharion · Veteran Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 1344 Location: Sweden

I was suggested to give a dev a beta invite

So if anyone knows how to write ebuilds, and wants a key, let me know, and I'll fork one over as soon as I get one

totycro · n00b Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 26

Unknown Horizons:
http://unknown-horizons.org/

A real-time strategy game similar to the Anno-series, based on FIFE.

Kirill Cherniy · n00b Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 3

urban terror 4.1 lacks standalone ebuild, it can only be installed as quake3 mod though it has standalone version :!:

eminenz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 95

right!
i miss a standalone ebuild, too.

Genfoo' · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 112

Machinarium

Xamindar · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 2:25 am Post subject:

How about Vega Strike? It was mentioned on the first page of this thread. 14 pages later and still no ebuild?

keenblade · Veteran Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 1087

Jazz-KP · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2008 Posts: 38

frostwork · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 64

as it makes imho perfectly sense to search in the games-section for people wanting to help to create new game ebuilds,
here's a copy/paste of my now moved to unsupported software gamerlay thread ( https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6206794.html#6206794 ):

gamerlay is an official overlay btw, means layman finds it with default configuration.

<snip>

In case you love playing native linux games on your gentoo, and would like to
contribute with creating and maintaining new ebuilds, feel free to visit our
#gentoo-gamerlay irc channel on freenode.
We already have a bunch of excellent games available,
but any help with making our gamerlay games overlay even bigger
is very welcome!
Also if you found a new game, which doesn't have an ebuild yet, and you
would like to help building one and, don't hesitate to contact and join us

Not directly related to the gamerlay overlay we also have a little
interesting-games-which-need-to-run-natively entry on piratepad:
http://piratepad.net/fvKKG1ef7K
if you found some interesting game you could also make a note there.

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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:00 pm Post subject:

Moved from Gamers & Players to Unsupported Software.

The right place to request ebuilds it at bugs.gentoo.org.
To discuss user created ebuilds is unsupported software.
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frostwork · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 64

there are still some people left, who would like to contribute game ebuilds.
As almost every game ebuild proposal on bgo simply is ignored, gamerlay would be a nice solution.
Whoever ebuilds a new good game and wants to take part on a real community driven overlay, could easily join us.

For some very weird reason gamerlay is not even not supported officially, although it is an official overlay,
but instead even is blocked wherever possible.

Don't tell me that the gamerlay thread being offtopic was the reason to
move it into the best-place-to-not-being-noticed section
(I would understand this if it would make sense, but you could have supported our idea by simply not moving the thread...)

instead you even preferred to sacrifice an excellent 5 years old thread!
do the community a favor and move this thread back into games section and simply remove my posts...
I'm speaking just for me in this post, not for the whole gamerlay team.

loftwyr · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject:

JVGS http://jvgs.sourceforge.net/

JVGS is a free, minimalistic platform game that runs on windows, mac, linux and most other obscure systems out there. Some elements are loosely based on xkcd. The Ghosts album by Nine Inch Nails was chosen as soundtrack.
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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

OHRRPGCE

(It has its own overlay, but most of the ebuilds in it are broken)