Free knights of software for linux

Knights aims to be the ultimate chess resource on your computer. Written for the K Desktop Environment, its designed to be both friendly to new chess players and functional for Grand Masters.
Main features:
- Play against yourself, against computer opponents, or against others over the Internet.
- Customize your board and pieces with over 30 different themes, or create your own!
- Audio cues help alert you to important events.
- Novice players can preview potential moves.
- Save your unfinished matches and play them again later.
Enhancements:
- Known Crash Bug during online play.
- Changed version to 0.6.4 Beta
- Added support for Email chess.
- Added experimental support for Crazyhouse chess.
- Added experimental support for Suicide chess.
- Moved game boards to the Tabs system.
- Boards are now resized just by dragging the corner of the window.
- The Match menu is now context sensitive. For example, you will get a different menu when you view the console.
- Knights now includes a PGN mimetype, allowing you to view PGN files with ease.
- Replaced Theme Size option with Cache Size, which allows you to decide how much memory Knights uses to cache images.
- Added Background Images, which are shown around the board.
- Added dialog which displays details about the selected theme.
- Tabs will now try to organize themselves based on your previous choices.
- The Hint option will now show you the suggested move on the board using animation, highlights, or both, based on your display settings.
- Added an audio cue for the last ten seconds of your clock.
- Added audio cue for draw offers.
- PGN Viewer now features hyperlinked moves, letting you jump to any position in the match.
- Seek Graph now uses different colors to distinguish between human and computer opponents.
- Now autodetects the Slibo engine.
- Fixed bug where you could click on the boards border and it would register the click somewhere else.
- Fixed internationalization of UCI protocol status messages.
- Fixed display of theme specific colors for text.
- Fixed the configure dialog so that you can no longer select Start a Match Versus Computer or Connect to an Internet Chess Server if you dont have any chess engines or servers configured.
- Fixed a transparency-related drawing error for boards featuring borders.
- PGN Viewer now updates as you play your match.
- Fixed a bug that caused some chess engines to become unresponsive.
- Fixed several potential buffer overflows.
- Online chess matches now display Attack highlights correctly.
- Lots of random fixes.

King of the Hill project is a full client/server multiplayer artillery game in the scorched earth tradition.
King of the Hill (KOTH) is an artillery game in the grand old tradition of little tanks with ridiculously powerful weapons trying to blow each other up while trying to avoid getting blown up themselves.
Koth features LibGGI for fast portable graphics, full client/server multiplayer, a few cool weapons, in-game chat, and nice terrain generation algorithm.
Open source in the hopes that others will help out and make this a really great game.
Main features:
- Supports up to ten players at once, with unlimited observers (ten only because beyond that the game would get unwieldy, not an architectural limitation)
- Players can join and leave at any time without disrupting the game
- Pregame and In-game color-coded chat
- Buy and sell various types of neat weapons to use against your enemies
- Fractal-tessalation terrain generating algorithm produces endless variations of interesting terrain (before you start blowing massing craters into it that is
- Falling dirt and falling damage to tanks
- Lightweight, asynchronous networking protocol - perfectly playable on a modem over the Internet even with high pingtime
- LibGGI for portable graphics. Currently supports 8/15/16/24/32 bits per pixel in any resolution
- Free software so anyone can and is encouraged to add in their own favorite weapons, equipment, and other features.
Enhancements:
- kick (through server console)
- new weapons: black hole, laser, dirt curtain, dirt vaporizer and depth charge
- infinite number of observers
- new status area in battle window (nickname/armor/shield)
- readiness indication in pregame
- new "who already fired" ingame bar
- bugfixes and other misc changes (weapons price, power, behavior etc)
- weapons name in death messages
- New explosions
- Koth is now playable on fast computers (sleep in animations)

Labyrinth of Worlds project is an Ultima Underworld II rewrite.
LoW is a rewrite of the first-person role-playing game Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds that came out in the early 1990s. One of the most celebrated game of its genre, this rewrite attempts to recapture the minutiae and spirit of the original.
At the moment, the tech demo allows you to walk (and jump) around all the Underworld II levels and worlds, has all NPCs and most monsters. You also get to see and manipulate all the dynamic objects of the game, and peek inside containers. The paperdoll has been implemented, too, and lets you access your inventory as well as wear/wield armor and weapons.
It is now possible to converse with the various NPCs. While not all the conversations work correctly (or at all) most do for the most part and it is now possible to actually understand the storyline. :) NPCs are also able to give items, now.
Another worthy project you might want to go take a look at is Underworld Adventures which seeks to recreate the first installement of that series and is doing a darn good job of it.
If you are an Ultima VII fan, then Exult is going to tickle you pink! The freshly released version 1.0 will allow you to play Black Gate and Serpent Isle with the addons on modern architectures, with a few gameplay improvements to boot!
Enhancements:
- Fixed executables
- new gameplay features, including wearable items
- improved user interface
- performance improvements
- more complete conversation support (including being given items),
- working keys and locks

Realms of Rivalry is an online tactical rpg. Play short skirmishes in random-generated game worlds.
The game can be summarized as an online graphical turn-based strategy/rpg game where you can play short tactical skirmishes with 2-4 players in small random-generated game worlds. The game is free and can be played either as an applet or downloadable client.
The time-limited turns (30-90 secs) give the game a semi-realtime feel, and the game has sometimes been characterized as "chess on steroids".
Main features:
- Community friendly game lobby where you can chat with others and join realms.
- Up to 4 players simultaneously battling on the same realm.
- Players control teams of 3 characters: Warrior, Archer and Mage.
- Time-limited turn-based gameplay.
- Random-generated game worlds (realms).
- CPU controlled monsters.
- Several weapons, armor, traps and other items.
- Occlusion calculation used in combat situations.
- Interrupts.
- Different types of terrain.
- Buy & sell items at vendors.
- Monster respawning.
- Ingame chat.
- Detailed end-of-game summary panel.
Explore the map and kill creatures to obtain weapons, potions, runes, traps and more to aid you in your quest for domination!
The game development has been very "test-driven" in the sense that the game quickly was made playable and that features and changes were added and removed continuously during development. This hopefully improves gameplay, but of course at the expense of dramatically increased development time.
Realms of rivalry was never intended to "soothe the masses", but were made entirely to match the game that we ourselves would like to play - something we have done for many, many hours :-) But of course, some of you might enjoy this game aswell, and that is why we decided to share it with you!.

Battles of Antargis is a realtime strategy game. Battles of Antargiss main purpose lies on conquering not on building.
Battles Of Antargis is an open-source game with GPL license. You have one or more heroes that you can control. They can recruit troops and conquer the world. While doing this they have to gather food and weapons. All around are people and animals which populate the world.
Unlike the typical Warcraft-like games, you have to get by with the existing population and resources.
This is a first tech-demo, so please be patient. Apart from this we are searching for new artists and developers.
Main features:
Visuals:
- animated milkshape models (MilkShape ASCII-importer)
- static models (Wavefront obj-importer)
- shadowmap based shadows (PSMs work in progress)
- fustrum culling
- shader support
Game
- the whole gamelogic is done in ruby, so it should be fairly easy to modify this game.
- the whole layout is done in xml
- basic dialogs and intro-screens implemented, but nice graphics still missing
- loading/saving
Editor
- edit heightmap
- place entities on map