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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!

This game combines arcade elements with a bit of strategy.
There are nine rather different games packed into it, and three skill levels for each one.

A fancy playing field shape gives you a great chance to excersize your pool skills. One more nice thing - the two-player modes were added - no more arguing with your relatives over whose turn is to play now.

Installation

Mysterious Palantir 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 palantir.tgz

3) go into Palantir directory and run the game:

cd Palantir;

palantir

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.

Game Rules

Look at the board - there are some spheres in the middle of its sides. Just click on one of them and it becomes active. The sphere will fly in the direction you point. Inside a small hexagon in the middle of the board you can see some other spheres - they show the color of the next ones, so you may develop your own game strategy. The numbers in a light

blue hexagon at the right of the board indicate the number of unsuccessful attempts left till the end of the game round.

You will get some points if the sphere you have shot joins a group of spheres of the same color and they disappear. You will get ten times more points for every sphere that fell apart if they werent connected to the center of the board. If you havent removed any sphere by your shot - the number of attempts decreases and when it equals to zero new lines will appear from the center of the board and a new game round will begin. New lines will appear if the sphere you have shot hits the sides of the board it has come from and disappears. But in this case you wont lose your attempts.

You may choose between nine different games available (click on the `Pick game button). First six games are single player games and the last three are multiplayer ones.

In the single player game your goal is to remove all the spheres off the board. You will have twice more points if you manage to kick off all the spheres of the same color. On the other hand the number of lines that appear at the end of every game round increases too.

In multiplayer games you should achieve different goals. The board is divided into two parts here. One half of which belongs to you and another - to your opponent. Your goal is to remove all the spheres from your half of the board and those common for both players lying on the line dividing the board. You should also fill the opponents half and make the spheres overflow its borders. Keep in mind that the player on whose part of the board the spheres have been removed will get points.

Try to clear your half of the board and your score will be doubled and the game will be over. In case the spheres overflow the board the game is over too. You will lose all your points and lose the game if spheres overflow the board on your half. Another player must follow the same rules. At the beginning of every game you can choose players - either

human or computer ones. You will watch the game in Demo Mode if you choose both players as computer players.

Watching the Demo will help you to understand the rules of the game.

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...

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?

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.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
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

H-Craft Championship looks surprisingly good for an indie racing game--after all, major publishers spend millions polishing the graphics for games of this type, and its impressive that a small team was able to produce something that looks so nice.

The game is science fictional, in that the racing vehicles are hovercraft that apparently tool along great superhighways in the sky. Also apparently, in the future, road safety is not a major concern of the authorities--perhaps the world is overpopulated and they want people to plummet to their deaths--so that failure in steering doesnt mean, as in other games, that you go off road and lose speed, but instead lose the game.

The main game mode is the championship--a series of events in which victory unlocks more tracks and vehicles. Its a single-player game--no network play--but you can record a ghost of your race and send the file to a friend, so that he can race against your best time, on the same track. Similarly, in Rival mode, up to four players can race on the same track, in succession, against the ghosts of previous contestants, so there is a form of hotseat multiplayer, in any event.

If you enjoy racing games, its well worth a look.