Free shooters 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.

rRootage is an abstract shooter game. It was created by Kenta Cho and ported to Linux by Evil Mr Henry.
Debian distro: apt-get install rrootage.
Installation:
Download the data files, and the executable for your platform. Put rr in this directory.
On most systems, simply open a console, switch to root, and run ./install.sh. If that doesnt work, you can install manually. Copy rr_share/* to /usr/share/games/rRootage, rr to /usr/bin and make sure everything works.
Running:
Type rr to start the game. The command-line line switches listed in readme_e.txt should all work.
Compiling:
Install the OpenGL development libraries. (This is the hard part.)
Install libBulletML. (http://user.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~s31552/wp/libbulletml/index_en.html Compiling should be simple. Copy the resulting .a file to /usr/lib)
Install SDL_mixer.
Compile with "make -f makefile.lin"
The file "rr" goes in your path, and all directories except src go in /usr/share/games/rRootage. src is unneeded after compiling.
Uninstall:
Remove the directory /usr/share/games/rRootage, the file /usr/bin/rr and the file ~/.rr.prf.
Enhancements:
- This only updates the packaging.
- Dont bother upgrading if your copy works.

TUER is a 3D FPS written in JAVA + JOGL + JOGG.

TUER is a very small first player shooter. You can shoot robots in a museum with your rocket launcher. It uses a kind of dynamic lighting. You can also perform screenshots and snapshots.

Versus project is an old-school space shooter game.
Versus is a game in which two plain triangles try to kill each other by shooting on one another.
The game features gravity and can be configured through an INI file.
Features youll see in a future version:
add HUD
remove redundancies
title screen
primitive font system
horizonal hurt looses 2 lifes bug
Enhancements:
- implement ini configuartion File
- colors
- unix makefile
- cross compilation (BSD, Linux, Mac Os X, Windows)

Overgod is a 2D shooter with multiplayer support based on Allegro.
For too long has humanity been ruled by cruel and disputatious gods! Fly through the various layers of the Celestial Oversphere to unseat those who control the universe.
This is my latest game, Overgod. Its similar to my last game, Lacewing, but better in almost every way. Basically, you control a little vehicle in the middle of the screen and fly around and shoot things - a bit like asteroids, but the asteroids move independently and shoot back. You can also upgrade your vehicle in various ways.
Main features:
- Over 100 different enemies
- Lots of randomness and chaos
- Various different modes and unlockable challenges
- 1 or 2 players (splitscreen)
- Pretty low system requirements (about 300MHz is plenty, and it doesnt need any kind of fancy graphics card)
- Days of fun!
It should compile on any platform supported by Allegro. Windows and Mac binaries are provided at the moment, as is source code (its under the GPL). The links are all to sourceforge, which is a little cumbersome, but for various reasons Im releasing this through Internet cafes and the Library so thats what you get. Have fun!
(Thanks to Michael Faerber for helping with Linuxisation and pointing out bugs, and Peter Hull for helping with the Mac version and finding another bug)

Offender project is an entertaining 2D space shooter written in GTK+ C for linux.
Its was written casually by Silas and Dylan Albrecht over a one and a half year period with a few large breaks. Before 0.1 was releashed Offender hadnt really been hacked since early 2001 except for a few minor romps.
Offender has been tested under RedHat Linux 7.0 (using kgcc) with GTK+ 1.2.8 and RedHat 7.3 with GTK+ 1.2.10.
If you dont have GTK+ you can get it at gtk.org. If you can/cant compile it in a different environment wed be interested to hear about it through email.
Enhancements:
- Major update release version 0.2
- Much needed feature additions, stable but messy code.

Kobo Deluxe is a port of XKobo to SDL, with considerable enhancements.
Kobo Deluxe is a port of XKobo to SDL. XKobo itself is a descendant of Namcos old Bosconian, which can be seen as part of the Galaxian/Galaga family of space shooters.
In both XKobo and Kobo Deluxe, you fly a ship around in 2D space, destroying other ships, dodging bullets, and destroying massive space platforms by shooting their cores.
There are literally hundreds of levels, and each level is different every time you play--the platforms are randomly generated. Kobo Deluxe adds sound, better graphics, and much more to the original game.
Main features:
- Fast paced retro arcade style game play
- Smooth, high speed 8-way scrolling
- Very simple controls - the game is about speed and strategy
- 17 different enemies; fighters, kamikaze attackers, proxy bombs and more
- 50 maps, each with its own feel and strategies to figure out
- Maps are built as you enter them - each game is unique!
- Beat the 50 maps - and get a new wave of even more aggressive enemies
- Music and sound effects with real time reverberation
- Structured audio technology - hi-fi sound in a tiny download
- OpenGL support for extremely fast and smooth animation
- High resolution support up to 2048x1536 - five types of scaling
- Supports any display color depth - dithering for 15 and 16 bpp
- Supports control by keyboard, mouse or joystick
- Runs on pretty much any hardware and operating system
- All code and data is Free! Source code available. (GPL or LGPL)

AstroMenace project is a modern 3D scrolling space shooter with ship upgrade possibilities. You can improve your ship configuration by installing new weapons, defensive systems, power stations and much more.

To improve your ship, you must earn money by destroying throngs of enemies on every level. A friendly interface, easy controls, and fancy 3D graphics will bring you straight into the heart of galactic war. Enjoy!