Free game software for linux

Games::Console Perl module provide a 2D quake style in-game console.

SYNOPSIS

use Games::Console;

my $console = Games::Console->new(
font => $font_object,
background_color => [ 1,1,0],
background_alpha => 0.4,
text_color => [ 1,1,1 ],
text_alpha => 1,
speed => 50, # in percent per second
height => 50, # fully opened, in percent of screen
width => 100, # fully opened, in percent of screen
backbuffer_size => 100, # keep so many messages
prompt => >,
cursor => _,
);

$console->screen_width($width);
$console->screen_height($height);
$console->toggle($current_time);
$console->message(Hello there!);
$console->input(a);

This package provides you with a quake-style console for your games. The console gathers messages and lets you scroll trough them. It also can display a command line.

This package is just a base class setting up everything, but doesnt actually render anything.

See Games::Console::SDL and Games::Console::OpenGL for subclasses that implement the actual rendering to the screen via SDL and OpenGL, respectively.

Games::Go::SGF2misc::SVG is a Perl package to simplify SGF game rendering using Image::LibrSVG.

SYNOPSIS

use Games::Go::SGF2misc::SVG;

my $image = new Games::Go::SGF2misc::SVG(imagesize => 3in,
boardsize => 19,
gobanColor=> white );

$image->drawGoban();

$image->placeStone(b,cd);
$image->placeStone(w,[4,2]);
$image->placeStone(b,db);
$image->placeStone(w,dc);
$image->placeStone(b,cc);
$image->placeStone(w,eb);
$image->placeStone(b,cb);

$image->addCircle(cb,1);

$image->save($filename); # As a .svg
$image->export($filename); # As a .png

gewee game is a Go-like board game with "next generation" graphics.

This is a game between a human ("player") and a computer ("opponent"). The players objective is to accumulate as many points as possible. When the player wins a game, a point is added to his/her score. When the player loses a game, a point is subtracted from his/her score. The competitor with the most pieces on the board at the end of the game is the winner. A game is finished when a competitor forfeits, or has no valid empty square to place a piece on. The opponent is granted additional moves at the start of a game based on the players score.

Each competitor has a distinct set of pieces of the same shape and color. The competitors take turns placing one piece on an empty square on the board. A piece or group of pieces that has no empty square adjacent to it is removed from the board.

Game::Life - Plays Conways Game of Life.

SYNOPSIS

use Game::Life;
my $game = new Game::Life( 20 );
my $starting = [
[ 1, 1, 1 ],
[ 1, 0, 0 ],
[ 0, 1, 0 ]
];

$game->place_points( 10, 10, $starting );
for (1..20) {
my $grid = $game->get_grid();
foreach ( @$grid ) {
print map { $_ ? X : . } @$_;
print "n";
}
print "nn";
$game->process();
}

Conways Game of Life is a basic example of finding living patterns in rather basic rulesets (see NOTES). The Game of Life takes place on a 2-D rectangular grid, with each grid point being either alive or dead. If a living grid point has 2 or 3 neighbors within the surrounding 8 points, the point will remain alive in the next generation; any fewer or more will kill it. A dead grid point will become alive if there are exactly 3 living neighbors to it. With these simple rules, fascinating structures such as gliders that move across the grid, glider guns that generate these gliders, XOR gates, and others have been found.

This module simply provides a way to simulate the Game of Life in Perl.

In terms of coordinate systems as used in place_points, toggle_point and other functions, the first coodinate is the vertical direction, 0 being the top of the board, and the second is the horizontal direaction, 0 being the left side of the board. Thus, toggling the point of (3,2) will switch the state of the point in the 4th row and 3rd column.

The edges of the board are currently set as "flat"; cells on the edge do not have any neighbors, and thus will fall off the board. Future versions may allow for warp edges (if a cell moves off the left side it reappears on the right side).