game of life online trial software / shareware for linux

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!

Runes of Avalon is an epic puzzle game.
Lost somewhere in the mists of time, Avalons beauty and grace is threatened. The forests and vales whisper to you of a growing evil and Merlin, your master, has disappeared leaving Avalon unguarded. It is the ambitious and evil Morganna le Fay who is spreading a darkening corruption. Use the Rune Magic Merlin taught you to cleanse Avalon and rescue your master from Morgannas Tower.
Runes of Avalon is a puzzle game with a twist, match-3 mechanic that you have yet to see. Excellent music, wonderful graphics, brilliant particle effects, 8 powerful spells, 105 levels in quest, two minigames, lot of variations within a quest, total of three game modes is what you get when playing Runes of Avalon.
Main features:
- Three modes of play - Quest, Endless and Time Attack
- 105 challenging levels in quest
- 6 spells (power-ups)
- Boss levels enhancing gameplay
- Two bonus games
- Wallpapers as a rewards for completing stages
- 14 enchanting images to reveal
- Excellent mystic music & sfx
- Intriguing storyline
- Wonderful particle effects
- and more...

The Atomic Penguin is the award winning periodic table of the elements for Linux. In addition to the usual information found in such programs, The Atomic Penguin also contains a wealth of nuclear information on each isotope, including half life, decay mode, and daughter products. No other periodic table of the elements has more data than The Atomic Penguin!

Spelled Knights of Light is a bubble clone game with very good-looking graphics.
This story began long time ago. Far away at the land of Three Kingdoms of the Lonesome sea.
Lonesome sea. The Knights of a Light Order were the guards of the Kingdoms and they lived on a big island. They spent happily and peacefully not much time. Sultan the Cruel decided to seize Three Kingdoms of the Lonesome Sea.
The time has come for the fearless and valorous Knights of Light to defend their native lands. It was a great battle and there were great people loses. The Sultan understood that he couldnt destroy all the Kingdoms with the Knights together so he invented a cunning plan to conquer not only Three Kingdoms but also Knights of Light Order and then seize all the rest Kingdoms.
You happened to be in the old Magician shanty. Full of retorts and magic liquids in them. Its time to help old magician and save the Knights of Light. Our task is to smelt new Knights from the magic retorts that you see on the right. Collect magical blots can make new Spelled Knights.
Version restrictions:
- 60 minutes trial

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).

A Tale in the Desert is a massively multiplayer role-playing game set in ancient Egypt.

It uses the internet to allow thousands of players to play together in the same world. All of the characters you will see and talk to in the game are controlled by other people just like you, not by a computer.

A Tale in the Desert is the first online game to focus on long-term planning and long-term goals rather than combat. Goals include the creation of great works of art and architecture, becoming a powerful leader, and building wealth.

Construction:

Objective: To build a base of operations.

Similarities to: Tropico, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Zeus, Capitalism

Explanation: Your base consists of machines that produce goods, ranging from simple objects like bricks and boards to highly customized goods like gearboxes, mixed paints, and cut gems.

The Challenge: Your base must be designed to operate efficiently and must take into account the values of the goods, supply, and demand.

Puzzles: As you unlock new technologies, you will need to figure out how they work and how you can use them to increase your efficiency.

Trading:

Objective: To make a profit trading goods and services with other players.

Similarities to: Master of Orion 2, Port Royale

Challenge 1: A Tale in the Desert contains too many goods for you to produce everything you need. You must trade to obtain the necessities.

Challenge 2: Learning skills is extremely expensive. To recoup the cost, you must figure out how to hire out your skills to other players.

Puzzles: You must figure out what your goods are worth, and what your time is worth. You must decide whether to give things away freely, and hope for generosity in return, or whether to trade on a more controlled, negotiated basis.

The Tests:

Objective: To increase your powers by performing ritual tests of character.

Similarities to: The multiplayer games you see on Reality TV shows.

The Challenge: There are dozens of different tests, each one a unique ritual that increases your powers. They run the gamut from building a pyramid, to breeding and exhibiting a scarab beetle, to winning a dueling tournament, to searching for hidden altars, to winning an election. They only have one thing in common: they all require you to strategize against other players.

Lawmaking:

Objective: To lift Egypt out of anarchy into true civilization.

The Challenge: A civilization must have rules: rules about who gets to own which piece of land, rules about what kind of pollution is permitted, rules about inappropriate behavior, rules about who gets to benefit from your research labors, rules about who owns which vein of ore. Egyptians must choose these rules for themselves.

The Puzzle: Can you do better than the real governments of today? Can you create a truly fair and just society?