Free arena software for linux

Alien Arena 2006 is the ultimate freeware deathmatch game!

Included are 25 total levels, 9 detailed characters, 8 weapons, 2 vehicles, 5 gameplay modes(DM, TDM, CTF, All Out Assault, Deathball), and much more!

New for Alien Arena 2006 are five mutators(instagib, regeneration, vampire, rocket arena, and low grav), and Deathball, a mode in which you get points by capturing a ball and firing in into a goal.

Eight new levels have been added, as well as alternate firing modes for several of the weapons. The game now runs on version 4.03 of the CRX engine, based on the id Software GPL source codes, and adding nextgen features such as reflective water, shaders, light bloom, improved lighting, and much more, while optimizations allow it to still run extremely fast even on modest systems.

The game now features colored names, an improved console, and an enhanced in-game server browser.

Also available is the "Nightmare Bots" patch, which adds a fourth skill level to the in-game bots, which will challenge even the best players.

Arena Scripting Language is a light-weight scripting language. The language uses a syntax and library similar to that of ANSI C, but adds automatic memory management and runtime polymorphism on top of that.
Main features:
- syntax similar to ANSI C
- standard library similar to ANSI C
- automatic memory management
- runtime polymorphism
- support for exceptions
- support for anonymous functions
Enhancements:
- This release changes the system() library function to return the raw exit status as given by the operating system.

SACRED is an enhanced version of the ROM 2.4b6 codebase. Sacred enhancements include new player skills, spells, classes, and races.
Also included are arenas, OLC, Mud Compression Protocol, a Clan system, new flags, questing, color, automatic auctions, enhanced immortal utilities, spellchecking, hints, and many more features.
To play the the Mageslair you will need a good client. You are able to play it with simple stuff like the standard windows client or the java applet, but this will not show so good results, as playing with a special mud client.
There are a lot of good mud clients to find one just run a search on google, or check our download section for a link to a good client. You should also make sure that you get compression.
When having downloaded and installed a mud client, click on connect to server and simply enter as address www.mageslair.net and as port 7060. Then your set.
Enhancements:
- The 2500 item limit has been removed.
- Exits no longer show closed doors.
- There is now a README file update for proper installation.

RenderDotC project is a world class photorealistic renderer designed to meet the demands of special effects for film. The primary reason people give for choosing RenderDotC is its favorable price per performance ratio. Moreover, RenderDotC scores high marks on everything that matters for a production renderer:
Main features:
Image Quality
- Images produced with RenderDotC possess that indescribable yet beautiful quality that some people refer to as "the RenderMan look". All phenomena that are prone to aliasing artifacts are effectively anti-aliased and noise is kept to a minimum.
Speed
- RenderDotC was designed in the 1990s to take advantage of the current hardware and software technologies. Its CPU and memory performance is unsurpassed by all renderers in its class.
Robustness
- There are hundreds of details to get right when developing a renderer and that only comes with maturity. RenderDotC has been shipping since 1996 and has proven itself on complex scenes from feature films from The Matrix to Orange County.
Features
- The RenderMan standard prescribes a rich set of geometric primitives and features. RenderDotC provides all of these plus some exclusive features such as NURB curves, DSO shadeops that can call built-in functions, and complete support for extended headroom rendering.
Flexibility
- Being RenderMan-compliant, RenderDotC supports user-programmable shading. It also has other plug-in interfaces including DSO shadeops, procedural primitives, and display drivers. Since shading is decoupled from hiding, one can easily tune the speed/quality tradeoffs of each.
Price
- RenderDotC is priced competitively for both the film and broadcast markets. When considering price, its important to take into account speed. A faster renderer means that the same number of frames can be produced per hour with a smaller render farm. Fewer computers to purchase and maintain further reduces the bottom line.
Support
- As a company, Dot C Software has been around since 1992. Our customers needs come first and we have the agility to respond to requests quickly. The people who wrote RenderDotC are the same ones that provide customer support. At Dot C we make software, period. We do not compete with our customers in the arena of computer graphics production.
Enhancements:
- Improved statistical output.
- Optional non raster-oriented dicing.
- The ability to specify motion factor as a dicing attribute, and user-defined placement of output on X.
- The Windows installer now sets up the environment.

Fearann Muin is an online role-playing game in a medieval fantasy world.
Fearann Muin is an online role-playing game (MMORPG without the Massive part) with a medieval-fantasy setting and standard rule sets. It will try to be focused on community and roleplaying instead of other aspects.
Main features:
Universe
- The setting of the game is Medieval Fantasy, similar to many other games (computer games or tabletop), but not copying exactly any system in particular. We plan to introduce non-standard creatures and environments more often as the development goes on.
- The initial races for playable characters are Dwarves, Elves and Humans; we plan to add new races later. While this doesnt sound original it has some benefits, like people knowing the race traits, so they can start playing right away without pondering which race is the best suited to their taste (as it happens when all the races in a game are original, unknown to you).
- The Rule Set is the standard for many games, with well-known classes, types of magic, spells, bonus and malus for each race, etc. We would prefer to not have some of the restrictions of the rule set (in example, we would prefer to have a class-less system); but as with the races, this allows us to work with a known standard that many people already know, so its easier to learn for most people, and its known to work (we chose to not make modifications at the moment, to not end up with an unbalanced, broken system).
- Well try to make of the environment a real, living world, when possible; with different behaviors for different creatures, the environment changing a bit with seasons, and so forth.
Community and Roleplay
- People will be able to sell items or resources that they craft and harvest; and maybe also sell other services, like training people with lower levels of knowledge, or being paid by performing tasks. This will provide a full range of social relationships based on economy, that will make the players to directly affect the rest of the world with every action; as well as provide the means to get a complex society running.
- There will be Player Guilds to allow people to form groups of friends or whatever interests they want; and there will be also some kind of Professional Guilds (the name is not decided yet, it might be even Universities or Schools) that will allow players to train and be part of that Institution, which will play a powerful role in the game.
Combat
- PvP is restricted, it will be allowed in the form of Duels, where one player challenges another one, and this one decides whether to engage in combat or not. There might be some special areas (arenas) where this will be allowed without the player having to agree to fight, or maybe complete maps where PvP is unrestricted, we havent decided that yet.
- Fighting with creatures and NPCs is usually allowed (althought it might not always be a wise decision :) ), and were designing it at the moment, probably itll will be present in the next release.
- Guild vs. Guild or similar advanced forms of combat are not yet planned, since we need a significant amount of things working before we get to that, and we have to learn from experience before being able to implement them. This doesnt mean that we dont want to have it, its just that were not ready to implement it in the next few releases yet.