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Ancient Empires Lux is a computer strategy game that lets you play as all the great ancient civilizations.
Learn Your Ancient History
From Sumeria to Egypt, India to China, Greece to Rome, Ancient Empires Lux takes you on a comprehensive trip through early history. You can play as 58 different nations overall. Background information and links to full Wikipedia histories are included for each empire.
Difficult Enough For You
Four varying levels of difficulty provide a good challenge for newcomers and experienced Luxers alike. Beat the game on Emperor level and a special super-hard difficulty will unlock itself.
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Were glad to offer a full 30-day money-back refund on Ancient Empires Lux. Go ahead and try the game - and buy it with absolutely no risk.
Unlimited Fun
The free Ancient Empires Lux demo is limited to the first three empires. The cost to buy the full version is $20 US. Full registration gives you access to all the included maps throughout history. Register now securely and you will receive full access instantly.
Version restrictions:
- limited to the first three empires

Gamma Patrol project is an old style, vertical scrolling space shooter.

You have to fight your way through lots of enemies using different kinds of weapon systems.

The game was intended to be my first Linux program, but I had to switch to Win95 for a while, because the harddisk with Linux fucked up. Now - with a brand new K6-2 500MHz - development is continued under Linux again.

Gamma Patrol is built on top of the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL), a platform independent API for games. My primary target platform is Linux, but Im able to supply Windows and BeOS versions, too. Thanks to SDL and GCC this is just a matter of ./configure && make

The game features quite nice looking graphics - almost everything has been rendered with the PoVRay raytracer. Title and background music is still to be composed, my wife just began to play with a tracker...

ZapM project is a silly sci-fi roguelike RPG.

ZapM is a sci-fi rogue-like game that borrows monsters and ideas from all over and crams them into a ridiculous and perilous space maze where even a toaster can kill you.

But the intrepid hero, a badass space marine (or perhaps youre playing as a skilled software engineer, or a plucky quarterback, or a mutant psion?), has no choice but to enter this dangerous hulk and search for the legendary "Bizarro Orgasmatron", the only artifact that can save the universe from certain destruction!

ZapM is intended for an immature audience, and contains foul language and probably some fart jokes. If it were a movie, it would be rated PG-13 and would have gone straight to video.

ZapM plays a lot like other roguelike games, and care was taken to use many of the same interface commands as Nethack so it should feel familiar to many people.

Graal Online is a retro MMORPG with an emphasis on modification.

Graal Kingdoms is an adventurous massively multi player online roleplaying experience. Explore 3-D terrain in a 2-D environment, while battling monsters, forging friendships, and collecting treasures.

Interact with in-game characters and creatures, role play and chat with other players from around the world. Graal Kingdoms allows players to become a part of the story. Players can build houses, protect kingdoms, battle in tournaments, compete in events, and much more!

Graal Kingdoms goes beyond the norm, with a growing community and new and exciting features being added all the time. Players can do odd jobs, tame and own pets, battle monsters, form groups with other players, and make their own items and weapons.

An important part of Graal Kingdoms, is the great amount of communication that is possible in the game. Through live chatting onscreen, to sending private messages, and even mailing other players letters to their online homes! Battling is action-packed, with a wide variety of weapons and an even wider variety of magic spells.

The large assortment of items can be organized from the easy to use drag and drop inventory system. Players can choose from a selection of classes such as Warrior, Sorcerer, Thieves, Barbarians, and even Priests!

Graphics

The graphics in Graal Kingdoms are a fine blend of 2-D artwork and 3-D artwork, meshed together to form a unique experience unlike any other. Graphics are highly detailed, colourful, and creative. From boats and houses, to trees and monsters, Graal Kingdoms provides a visual treat for the player.

Jobs

Players can work many different jobs in order to advance further into the game. Mining for gems to craft into your own goods, and farming crops to bake into culinary delights. You can even become a lumberjack and plant trees to chop down and turn into wood that can be crafted into many useable items.

Houses and fortifications

If you plan on settling down, why not build yourself a home? Mine stones and build walls, until your new house is complete! Then once your home is built, gather up some furniture and decorate your indoor area in any way youd like. Your house can even include a mailbox, in which you can receive letters and even items from players! To keep out all unwanted visitors, you can construct fortification pillars around your land. But be careful, as pillars can be destroyed!

Role Player System

Graal Kingdoms has a massive role playing engine to allow for exciting experiences. Hundreds of items, loads of weapons, and a large array of magical spells allow for a unique role playing environment. Different items allow for different statistical effects to your base stats, enabling every player to strengthen their character with bigger and better items and weapons. A large assortment of items can be mixed together to create other items by using alchemy. Making for fun experimentation and surprising results!

Interaction between Players

Players can interact with each other in many ways. Through weekly tournaments and events, and even in mini-games, such as kart racing and soccer. Players can group with others to form parties in order to take on large quests and battle monsters in dungeons and mazes. Screenshots and news announce winners of events and competitions so every player can have a chance to be recognized.

Dungeons and Monster fighting

Players can travel through dark and eerie dungeons that have many twists, turns, and dead ends. Monsters of all shapes and sizes lurk through the corridors awaiting any challenger that crosses their path. By defeating monsters, players gain fighting experience which is used to gain levels to grow stronger. Battling monsters also allows for players to earn treasure from their victories. Monsters have different patterns of attack and come in many shapes and sizes, so beware!

Animals and Pets

There is a variety of animals that roam the lands in Graal Kingdoms. Some of these animals can be fed and tamed to follow you and much more. If you have a horse, you can feed it and ride it for faster travel over the land. You can even add armor to your horse to protect it during battles. Pets can also help to lighten the load by carrying some of your heavy goods.

Ships

Dream of travelling the seas? In Graal Kingdoms, its possible! With enough effort and wood, you can build a grand ship and sail around the world! Gather a crew together and explore the vast sea, or search for passing ships to destroy with your cannons! Ships can be damaged to the point of sinking, but they can also be repaired. Youll need to find a good crew to take on the rough waters!

Interface

Players can buy, sell, trade, and equip their items and weapons with the help of an easy to use inventory system. The inventory features drag and drop capabilities that allow the player to drop items on the ground or into bags or other containers they are carrying. The inventory displays currently worn items such as armour, rings, and amulets, along with the characters stats and items.

Kingdoms

Players can choose to join one of five Kingdoms. Each Kingdom is unique with its own island, background information, and design. Players can take part in Kingdom events, wars, tournaments, and much more. Every Kingdom has a style of its own, which allows the player to choose what style best suits them. Players can take on the role of a Kingdom member and even climb the ranks for a high position in the Kingdom. Become a defender for your Kingdom and wage war with other Kingdoms for honour and glory!

Lugaru is a third-person action game. The main character, Turner, is an anthropomorphic rebel bunny rabbit with impressive combat skills. In his quest to find those responsible for slaughtering his village, he uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy involving the corrupt leaders of the rabbit republic and the starving wolves from a nearby den. Turner takes it upon himself to fight against their plot and save his fellow rabbits from slavery.
Lugarus primary feature is its unique combat system. Instead of relying on confusing button combinations to perform moves, Lugarus moves are all logical and context sensitive. For example, if an opponent aims a roundhouse kick at Turners head, you can crouch and then stand up under the attack to grab your assailants leg and kick him away. If you try and punch an opponent and he tries to throw you over his shoulder, you can crouch to roll painlessly out of the throw. This new combat system makes fights look and feel much more intense and believable than in any other game. You can see it in action with the gameplay movies above.
However, if straight close-range combat with hands, knives, swords and staves is not your style, you can also use stealth, but you have to be smart about it. If you cut a wolfs throat, be sure to wipe the blood off your knife or another wolf might smell it. Enemy rabbits have very keen hearing, so be sure to walk quietly, and kill enemies before they make too much noise or run to alert their friends. Also, if they do bring their friends, dont expect them to stupidly take turns fighting you. It is not unusual for one enemy to sweep your feet out from under you and another to smash you while you fall.
Because of the emphasis on gameplay, the graphics are designed to let the game run as smoothly as possible. It should run at full speed at full detail on any system with a 700 mhz processor and Geforce 3 or better graphics card. It should run acceptably on any system with a 300 mhz processor and Rage 128 or better graphics card.
While models do not have as many polygons as in some new commercial games, there is an unprecedented amount of detail where it actually matters. If an enemy shatters his staff on your skull then your vision will unfocus slightly for a few seconds. Jumping through trees creates a shower of leaves (and snow if it is in a cold area).
Landing an especially solid blow to the head can spatter blood on the wall and knock out a couple teeth. If you throw a knife into a wolf, blood will drip down his fur as he yanks out the knife and uses it against you. It is even possible to smash enemies so hard into walls that the surface cracks. Motion blur makes fast movement easier to track.
Technical Features:
- Fast terrain engine with texture blending, footprints, and transparent fog
- Unique fast-paced combat system with weapons, attack reversals, and counter-reversals.
- Skeletal animation with rag-doll physics and hand and face expressions
- Motion blur and many other effects.

Frenesia is an beautifull arcade game for Linux.

If youre a Linux user, you like intense arcade action, and youre an excellent shmup player, Frenesia just might be for you. Im not going to lie. You must have unbeatable game chops.

Frenesia is a good, fun and addictive retro arcade Linux game, a fast paced shoot em up game that will twist your body into a pretzel, turn you upside down, dribble you up and down like a basketball, THEN drop kick you until you land on your head. And youll like that!

Get your butt in gear and dodge and dance like crazy with your ship, collect bonuses, shoot aliens, and send your adrenaline levels to the sky.

Musical Note: If you can pass Level 9, youll hear a different music track.

Toribash is a turn-based fighting game. Create your own martial arts movies in single player sandbox mode, or join the competition in the multi player modes.
Focus is on tactics rather than reaction and button mashing. The game features physics, full dismemberment, decapitation and comic style blood.
The creator and developer of the game is Hampa.
Main features:
- Full multi player access, including registered only servers with buddies system, protected nicks and head skins
- Join the competition in the online ranking system
- Custom mods, such as the official sumo mod
- Alter the rules of Single player and hosted Multi player games
- Host your own TCP or LAN server
- Your head texture included in the official releases
- Autosaving of matches
- Export screenshots and animations to POV-Ray
- Life Time free updates, including eventual v3.0 and upward