Free alien shooter software for linux

Alpha Shooter is a 3D OpenGL first-person shooter game with a sci-fi setting.
Alpha Shooter was born as a project for the Computer Graphics course at the University of Bologna.
The main objective was to develop a very simple 3D game using the OpenGL, GLU and GLUT libraries only (and some creativity). Emphasis was not placed on the game itself, rather on learning how to use the libraries to produce a 3D environment and interact with it; it was thus required to build a suitable scenery using polygonal meshes and quadric surfaces, appropriate textures and materials, lights, and effects.
According to my personal taste I chose a sci-fi setting, trying to reproduce an environment that could remind players of a warehouse or loading area located inside a space ship or space station, like those often seen in movies or commercial videogames (of course I was aware of the limits of my implementation). I focused development on a single room, with an outside view, for ease of development (it was my very first attempt at graphics programming) and because it was enough to make use of a wide set of elements of OpenGL, consistently with the project requirements.
The game I wrote was inspired to the First Person Shooter genre, in which the player can move around in a 3D environment, looking around freely through the eyes of the played character, interacting (in very limited ways) with some of the objects present, shooting crates and barrels and some holographic targets.
I had a lot of fun creating that simple game, so after I got my Masters Degree I decided it would be a waste to just leave it hidden in some obscure directory at home; it is now here, released as Free Software, so that I can keep working on it and improving it, with help from whoever will be interested, in the hope that it will be useful as an example on how to get started in computer graphics and games development.
Enhancements:
- Binary packages were created for all supported operating systems, including a Windows installer, an i386 Debian Linux package, and a PowerPC Mac OS X DMG disk image.
- Additionally, the improved persistent mouse movement mode uses a dynamic mouse cursor that shows direction and speed of rotation, making that movement mode more intuitive and useful.
- Several minor bugs have also been fixed.

Alien GUI is a graphical user interface of famous Alien which makes it possible to transform packages.

You must be logged in root to be able to use it.

Alien Flux is an arcade game where cute little Fluffies need YOUR help! Have you got what it takes to save them?
Defend the cutest, fluffiest little creatures in the Galaxy from a horde of evil aliens from the fifth dimension! With only fast reactions, animal cunning and a very big laser cannon to help you, you must rescue the Fluffies as malevolent Bubbles attempt to turn them into lime jelly.
Main features:
- 16 unique evil aliens from the 5th dimension
- 4 massive and fiendish bosses
- 8 cute fluffy friends that need your help
- 12 powerups to help you in your mission
- 100 levels of blistering arcade action in which to battle
- online hiscore table - be the best in the world and compete against your friends!

UFO: Alien Invasion is a 3D UFO-inspired tactical game.
UFO: ALIEN INVASION 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.
UFO: Alien Invasion is heavily inspired by the X-COM series by Mythos and Microprose. The first game of the series, UFO DEFENSE, became a classic and, in our honest opinion, is one of the best games ever made.
UFO: Alien Invasion is neither a sequel nor a remake of UFO DEFENSE - we simply had the urge to create a similar strategy game, which will hopefully be as entertaining as the original was for the players (and for the developers, of course). Join the IRC-Channel at irc.freenode.org named #ufo:ai and contribute to the developing process.
Gameplay:
The game is turn-based. Well, this might sound somewhat old school now, but trust us: turn-based games are fun!
Each member of your squad has a limited number so called "time units" each round, which are consumed when you order the unit to walk, to fire a weapon or to perform any of the other miscellaneous actions. When all your forces are out of time units, the aliens turn starts. In addition to eliminating as many enemies as possible, your mission is to minimize civilian casualties as well as to acquire parts of the advanced alien technology.
Once youve acquired sufficient samples of the unknown technology, your research labs will be able to reproduce the alien weapons and devices in order to use them against their original creators.
Game Engine:
The game engine is based on a heavily modified version of IDs Quake2 Engine. This doesnt imply that UFO: Alien Invasion is a mod or a total conversion at all! No, UFO: AI is a stand-alone game which doesnt require Quake2 or any similar program to run. Our self-developed game engine is featuring up-to-date OpenGL graphics and special effects, increased texture resolution, hardware accelerated clipping of map layers to toggle between floors, a new animation system for player models, a stunning AI and a few other gimmicks.
Multiplayer support:
You can play UFO: ALIEN INVASION with your friends via LAN or Internet. One player takes the role of the human special squad while the other is in control of the alien invaders. Co-op team play with multiple players on both sides is also supported for up to three teams on each side (6 players total).
Enhancements:
- Implemented sv_roundtimelimit cvar to set the maximum time a team has to finish their round in multiplayer.
- Completely rewritten saving and loading system.
- Finished implementation of Flashbang - now Flashbang will disable enemys reactionfire as well.
- Reintroduced employees renaming again.
- Hire menu and Team Select menu now shows Health bar as well.
- Heavily improved chat subsystem for multiplayer as well as Multiplayer Team Selection menu.
- Improved describing weapons and ammo in UFOpedia and other menus, including displaying firemodes.
- Added multiplayer server password protection.

Aliens project is a "slide at the bottom" shooting game written for the Agenda VR3 Linux-based PDA.
It is played with the Agenda held in a sideways position. The PgUp/PgDn buttons (on the side of the Agenda) move the ship left and right, and the Left or Right arrow buttons (on the front) are used for shooting.
Since its an X-Window program, it also runs on Linux and Unix desktops, and should be trivial to port to other Linux-based PDAs, like the iPaq or the Zaurus (running X-Window).
Main features:
- Two gameplay modes:
- "Swooping" - Similar to the arcade game "Galaxian." The aliens hang around at the top of the screen and occasionally swoop down to attack you.
- "Marching" - Similar to the arcade game "Space Invaders." The aliens march back and forth across the screen and come down towards you as a group.
- Built-in help
- Explains the gameplay, scoring, and controls
- Sound effects
- Buzzer-based sound effects
- Source included
- Aliens is an Open Source product, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
- Now part of Agenda!
- The folks from Agenda Computing liked it so much that it shipped with the Agenda VR3 PDA!

Alien::wxWidgets is a Perl module for building, finding and using wxWidgets binaries.

SYNOPSIS

use Alien::wxWidgets < options >;

my $version = Alien::wxWidgets->version;
my $config = Alien::wxWidgets->config;
my $compiler = Alien::wxWidgets->compiler;
my $linker = Alien::wxWidgets->linker;
my $include_path = Alien::wxWidgets->include_path;
my $defines = Alien::wxWidgets->defines;
my $cflags = Alien::wxWidgets->c_flags;
my $linkflags = Alien::wxWidgets->link_flags;
my $libraries = Alien::wxWidgets->libraries( qw(gl adv core base) );
my @libraries = Alien::wxWidgets->link_libraries( qw(gl adv core base) );
my @implib = Alien::wxWidgets->import_libraries( qw(gl adv core base) );
my @shrlib = Alien::wxWidgets->shared_libraries( qw(gl adv core base) );
my @keys = Alien::wxWidgets->library_keys; # gl, adv, ...
my $library_path = Alien::wxWidgets->shared_library_path;
my $key = Alien::wxWidgets->key;
my $prefix = Alien::wxWidgets->prefix;

Please see Alien for the manifesto of the Alien namespace.

In short Alien::wxWidgets can be used to detect and get configuration settings from an installed wxWidgets.