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Bubble Snooker is a game that combines the best features of Bubble Shooter, Pool, and Arcanoid. The winning strategy is to play from the cusions not letting the balls fill in the whole table.
Perfect 3D graphics, pleasant sound and music, addictive gameplay, this is what you get when play Bubble Snooker. Besides, you can take part in the International Bubble Snooker Tournament online. The game runs on major Linux flavors.
Game Rules
Your task is to remove the balls from the pool-table by shooting at them with the balls of definite color and combining together 3 or more balls of the same color. If the shot was unsuccessful, additional balls appear on the hexagonal net following the rules of John Conways Game of Life. The balls that do not have neighboring balls (single balls) are removed from the table.
When all the balls are removed you go to the next level. If the balls of the definite color are removed from the table, this color will not appear again on this level. The game is over if one or more balls touch on the lower edge of the table. In case the shooting ball strikes against the lower edge of the table, the colors of the balls on the field are substituted for
accidental colors (including already removed colors). On the right there is a cue which serves as the indicator of the power of shot: the more it is pulled out upwards the stronger the shot is and the farther the shooting ball gets between the balls. For every removed ball you get 1 point on the 1st level, 2 points on the 2nd level and so on.
Be very attentive and do not leave the "islets" of balls close to the lower edge of the table because after 2 or 3 misses the islets can grow and some ball will touch on the lower edge of the table (that will lead to the end of the game). The winning strategy is to play from the cusions not letting the balls fill in the whole table. Try to remove at least one color from the
very first shots. Do your best to make the winning combination (2 or more balls of a definite colors together) for all colors be available at all times.
Do not forget to send your best result to the International online tournament - this is done from the TOP SCORES window.
Be prepared that this game will keep you busy for quite a while.
The runs on major Linus flavors (RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and others).
Good luck!
Enhancements:
- Several players can use the game individually
- New skill level Easy Ride for more fun than ever
- Live Bubbles: now with real physics and smooth flying
- Games and configurations can be saved separately for each player
- Cool 3D explosions and other striking effects
- International online Tournament

Bubble Shooter is a great addictive arcade game for Linux combining simple rules with great wealth of combinations and various strategies. Bubble Shooter takes the best from Tetris, Lines, Pool adding new and cool features.

This game is a part of the Bubble Golden Pack.

Installation

Bubble Shooter runs on all major Linux flavors (RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and others). It is distributed as a gzipped tar archive bshooter.tgz To install and run this game on your Linux system, please do the following:

1) copy the file to a directory of your choice
2) unpack the archive:
tar xzvf bshooter.tgz
3) go into BubbleShooter directory and run the game:
cd BubbleShooter;
bubbles

The trial copy of the program will expire in 14 days. You can obtain a registration key any time during or after the trial period.c

Game Rules

Your goal is to clear all the bubbles from the board, scoring as many points as possible. You shoot at them with more bubbles, and when three or more of the same color come together, they all explode. Point your mouse to where you want the next bubble to go (the arrow at the bottom will indicate that direction), and click to fire the shot.

The more bubbles blow up at one shot, the increasingly more points you gain (six ones at one shot is better than two three-bubble shots). Besides, those bubbles that fell apart from the rest will explode too. It is well worth trying to arrange such avalanches, as they will give you ten times more points than ordinary bursts.

If your shot fails to detonate any bubbles, you get a foul, and after you make a few such mistakes, a new line of bubbles appears at the top. The number of misfires allowed before bubbles will advance again changes from five to zero, then to back five and so on. It is shown in the bottom left corner by the number of bubbles; those bubbles lay in small dips - their number shows how many mistakes will be allowed next time. Various skill levels differ by the number of shots that you are allowed to fire without success.

One more important rule: if you shoot out all the bubbles of some color, say red, no more red bubbles will appear on the board. This would ease things considerably. However, after that every time you use up your silver balls, *two* new lines will appear. Two colors out - three lines, and so forth. New lines will also pop out right after you shoot out a color.

There can be no draw in this game, either you clean all the bubbles off, or they move all the way down on you. No compromise.

Do not forget to send your best result to the online tournament - this is done from the TOP SCORES window.

Be prepared that this game will keep you busy for quite a while.

Good luck!

Duck Old-timer said: "Listen, my Duck-brothers! Every autumn those people start hunting us... We are fed up with it! From now on well fly in helmets and flak jackets; well be armed to the teeth and have parachutes and jet accelerators... So, dear sirs, we will do hunting our way! These men will regret every single miss because our weapons wont spare them! Well make the hunt their worst nightmare..."
They threw down a challenge on us, man... Dont slip up - stand up and fight!
Lots of brand new features are waiting for you in this incredible arcade game.
* Check out tough game characters of the Jet Duck Air Force, which differ in rank and behavior:
Interceptors-privates are the most peaceful and vulnerable parts of the ducks Air Force community. They only protect themselves with the help of helmets and some use parachutes.
** Supersonic Fighters fly very fast - just like their name suggests. Those are the results of a recent invention from DuckSciLab - jet accelerator that was implanted to the ducks-volunteers.
** Destroyers-commandos will try to wound you with the paint that holds for some time on the screen and impedes to play. These are real pills! They are mean and cheeky. So, watch out!
** Aerobatic Aces... hm... they are not even worth mentioning:).
* A flexible scouring system was introduced - for shooting down the duck pilots you should come up with wining strategies for each duck character. The number or points you get fully depends on the character you shot and its flying speed.
In addition to traditional skills levels of Novice, Expert, and Master, the game has several game modes: Blitz, Sniper, Crossfire and CliKill.
This game is promised to become a treat for the fans of trendy cartoon graphics and classic arcade/shooter mix. So, charge your rifle and stand out against the... Jet Ducks!
Free to download and try.
The game requires Pentium II 300 or higher, 32 MB or more RAM, all major Linux flavors (RedHat, Mandrake etc.) to run.

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Bubble Snooker is a game that combines the best features of Bubble Shooter, Pool, and Arcanoid. Your task is to remove the balls from the pool-table by shooting at them with the balls of definite color and combining together 3 or more balls of the same color. If the shot was unsuccessful, additional balls appear on the hexagonal net following the rules of John Conways Game of Life. The balls that do not have neighboring balls (single balls) are removed from the table. When all the balls are removed you go to the next level. If the balls of the definite color are removed from the table, this color will not appear again on this level. The game is over if one or more balls touch on the lower edge of the table. In case the shooting ball strikes against the lower edge of the table, the colors of the balls on the field are substituted for accidental colors (including already removed colors). On the right there is a cue which serves as the indicator of the power of shot: the more it is pulled out upwards the stronger the shot is and the farther the shooting ball gets between the balls. For every removed ball you get 1 point on the 1st level, 2 points on the 2nd level and so on.
Be very attentive and do not leave the "islets" of balls close to the lower edge of the table because after 2 or 3 misses the islets can grow and some ball will touch on the lower edge of the table (that will lead to the end of the game). The winning strategy is to play from the cusions not letting the balls fill in the whole table. Try to remove at least one color from the very first shots. Do your best to make the winning combination (2 or more balls of a definite colors together) for all colors be available at all times.
Good luck!
The game runs on major Linux flavors (RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE,
Slackware and others).