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Journal MrCopilot's Journal: Open Source Gamer Guide to Free Games

In writing a series of Open Source Gaming articles, it's easy to leave out a lot of peoples favorites. In order to combat this, I am taking all suggestions for the Next four installments. I play each game and give a short overview.

Upcoming articles up are:
Part 5. FPS (Preferably not already covered in Part 1)
Part 6. Turn Based Strategy, I especially need help here, as it is my least favorite genre.
Part 7. RPG including MMO types

The rules are simple all games must:
1. Must be open source.
2. Must be available for Linux & Windows at the very least.
3. Must have a website for readers to visit, Some great games didn't make the platformers article due to there being no active website, but were available in all major repositories.
4. They must offer Binary/Installer Downloads.

The intended audience for all my articles are primarily Windows users. I'd like to expose them to the best that open source has to offer, while trying to shield them from the hassles inherent in compiling the source.

Feel free to leave comments/suggestions here or at the blog.

The first three articles have been completed and can be found here.
(4 are currently published and part 5 is upcoming.)

Part 1 The Quakers, covers Open Source games written on the 3 idtech GPL releases.
Part 2 Real Time Strategy, covered Spring, Dark Oberon and others.
Part 3 The Platformers. Mario Clones and others.
Part 4 Racing

http://mrcopilot.com/search/label/OSGGFG

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Open Source Gamer Guide to Free Games

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