Free space shooter game 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.

Space Racer project is a OpenGL Car Game in a galactic environment.

It aims to be a clone of the well known Stunt Car Racer developed by Geff Crammond, author of Grand Prix I and II.

To play a 3dfx is recommanded. But TNT and Matrox Cards should now work.

If you have a 3dfx, you can take advantage of OpenGL 1.1 in adding this line in config.h:

#define SP_OPENGL_1_1

Spacewar project is a 2-player arcade game.

Spacewar is an arcade game in which two players have to destroy each others space ship by hitting them with their lasers.

It uses SDL and runs on both Linux and Windows

Transcend Game project is a retro-style, abstract, collage-building, musical, shooter game.
The graphics are geometrical, and the pace is sometimes frenzied. Two features set Transcend apart from other games.
First, its dynamic graphical engine, which can smoothly morph from one complex shape to another in realtime, produces striking displays.
Combining these dynamic shapes with subtle randomizations ensures that each new play through a level is visually different from the last.
The second novel feature is the musical power-up system.
As you play through a level, you are simultaneously assembling an abstract visual collage and arranging a unique piece of music.
Enhancements:
- Fixed bugs that caused post-explosion fade factors to become negative, which in turn caused boss explosions to linger on some platforms.
- Fixed zoom behavior when strafing.
- Added fade-in when enemies are created to avoid a visual pop-in.
- Added smooth turning when enemies switch targets.
- Changed so that pieces can be picked up while they are moving as a result of enemy fire. This makes pick up less confusing and frustrating.
- Made bullet fade-out smoothly at end of range to avoid visual pop.
- Doubled piece pick-up radius to make picking up pieces easier.
- Fixed jerky piece pick-up and drop.
- Added mini-explosion graphics to indicate when damage is being done to boss. These graphics also change color to indicate the boss health.

Alien Blaster project is an action-loaded 2D arcade shooter game for up to two players.
alienblaster is an action-loaded 2D arcade shooter game.
Your mission in the game is simple: stop the invasion of the aliens by blasting them.
Simultaneous two-player mode is available.
Main features:
- many aliens to blast
- a big bad boss
- different weapons
- special items
- cooperative mode (2 players playing on 1 computer)
- gamepad/joystick support
- arcade mode with highscore
- open source
- published under GPL
- runs with Windows and Linux

Oddspace project is a multiplayer 2D space shooter.

Its somewhat similar to Asteroids.

Getting Started

1. Install Java 1.4 or later

2. Download the zip and extract it to some directory

3. Since Oddspace is a multiplayer game you must first have a server to connect to. Start a server with the command "java -classpath . net.killingar.oddspace.Server" (or if you are on Windows, use server.bat). Select game mode first, then click "Start Server", now the server is running.

4. To connect to a server start the client with the command "java -classpath . net.killingar.oddspace.Client" (or if you are using windows, use the client.bat file)

5. Connect to the server by going to the "options" tab, then typing the servername in the "server" field (use localhost to use the one you just started), type your username in the "username" field and if you have a password type this also. Now click connect.

AstWar project is a terminal based 2D space shooter.
Astwar is a ncurses based simple space shooter; two little ships (asterisks), each on one side of the screen, try to shoot each other.
There is network support with several multiplayer options and user extension with Scheme (via Guile) to program the little ship to do some things automatically are in the works.
Provosional keys for now:
Ship 1:
- UP q
- DOWN a
- FIRE e
Ship 2:
- UP i
- DOWN k
- FIRE y
Enhancements:
- astbeep.c (playsound): added #ifdef __linux__
- shoot.c (shoot): added some #ifdefs
- Makefile.am (astwar_SOURCES): added *.h
- shoot.c (shoot): added new thread for each player sound.
- astbeep.c: added pthread_exit