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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?

Professor Fizzwizzle is back, and is puzzling his way through a Molten Mystery! Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery is a superb puzzle for all ages.
While on a well deserved vacation, Professor Fizzwizzles investigation of a strange volcano has landed him in a Molten Mystery! Now its up to you to master exciting new gadgets, outwit the Bat-Bots, and vanquish a truly cunning villain! Can the professor count on you to help?
Main features:
- Over 210 levels in total! Youll find something to enjoy no matter what your skill level.
- Easy to learn and control. Just "undo" your last few steps if you make a mistake.
- Stuck on a level? Just "Show Solution" and watch the walk-through.
- Full featured level editor! Share your levels, or download levels from others.
- Compete with players from around the globe for online high scores!

Professor Fizzwizzle is a fun, mind-expanding puzzle game, where you take control of the diminutive genius, Professor Fizzwizzle.
You must help the professor use his brains and his gadgets to solve each exciting level. Do you have what it takes to get past the Rage-Bots and bring the prof back to his lab?
Professor Fizzwizzle needs your help! His once-friendly Friend-Bots have gone in to rage mode, and have thrown him out of his lab!
Can you puzzle your way past the Rage-Bots and help Professor Fizzwizzle set things right? Hes counting on you!
Version restrictions:
- Time limited demo
- Custom levels locked.

Apus is a puzzle mind board game for Linux. There are 4 color pegs and there is a secret code... Apus is shareware. And you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the license for details.
There are a board with 10 rows. Every row contains 4 places for color pegs. A peg can be one of the 4 to 12 colors.
Up to the board there are 4 places for secret pegs. The game automatically create a secret code. You have to break it.
It can be done up to 10 moves.
Apus contains different pegs and boards. The game also contains special pegs for people with a colorblind. There are 4 levels of difficulty.
People sometimes has dificulties to remember how to play a game. For those there are an option to enable in-game hints.
Version restrictions:
- 30-day trial

Lua Lua is a puzzle game for childrens.
Prepare your little ones to feel like the VIPs they are, when playing Lua Lua games! Its a particularly pleasing pack of 7 Linux games for kids ages 3 to 7.
Designed for easy play using a "win win" concept, Lua Lua includes cute and cuddly animals that playfully invite your kids to take part in 7 fun-filled games: "Soopa Koopa," a puzzle; "Thinky Thinky," a memory game; "Catch-a-Match," a matching pairs game; "La La Land," a musical phrase game, "Pig-Tac-Dog" a tic tac toe game, ,"Taquin" a slide puzzle and "Drag and Drop" a shape matching game.
Please check back often for new game updates of Lua Lua. Updates and added games are free for registered users.
Main features:
- 7 Entertaining Games
- Endless fun
- adorably appropriate music
- Rewarding Game Play
- 42 Bright, Colorful Animals
- Encourages Learning
- Positive Experience
- Smiles from Everyone

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world.
A world of possibilities - a place where you have the ability to do almost anything you can imagine. In a little over a year, Second Lifes Residents have crafted a richly textured world filled with hundreds of thousands of objects of their own creation.
Complex and compelling characters dwell in every conceivable building from whimsical hobbit-houses to soaring urban towers to a medieval castle where visitors battle giant insects to win treasure. The local zoo features killer whale rides, speed boats ply the waterways, and a Resident-abducting alien space ship has been known to visit - all of it imagined and created by Second Lifes Residents.
To start your Second Life trial, simply download Second Life, register to create your character, choose your membership plan, and log in.

Main features:
- Roam a 3D living landscape full of exciting places and things
- Visit neighborhoods, shopping malls, nightclubs, sports arenas, churches, libraries, casinos-virtually every space that exists in the real world
- Adventure in castles, space stations, dungeons, Wild West towns, and cities in the sky-virtually everything from the infinite universe of the imagination
- Travel on foot, or by planes, trains, and flying saucers; gondolas, fuel-injected muscle cars, mechanical unicorns, fearsome gun ships, giant snails, smog-belching mech robots, stardust-powered magic broomsticks-or on your own power, with the innate ability that all Residents have, to teleport and fly at will
- lter your characters appearance to look like anything - an imaginary superhero, a mythical monster, or your own mirror image
- Change your reality with simple but sophisticated 3D creation tools: build houses, design furniture; create clothing, jewelry, and art
- Learn the Linden Scripting Language to give life to your creations: weapons that shoot, vehicles that traverse the air, land, and sea; build in-world games of all variety and genre
- Collaborate on projects live in real time with other Residents, to build an entire city, a full-featured game, and more
- Invest time and ingenuity in a fully integrated economy
- Advertise and sell your business to a city-sized population of consumers
- Exchange the Linden Dollars you earn for real dollars, and vice versa
- Donate your earnings to in-world projects, or real world non-profit causes and organizations
- Make all or part of your real world living from your efforts in Second Life
- Join a vibrant society bustling with people from countries all over the real world
- Share laughs and activities at the dozens of in-world events happening daily
- Party endlessly at nightclubs, fashion shows, art openings, fancy dress balls
- Host your own social events for love, fun, and profit
- Fall in love, get married at a virtual service-and officially designate your Second Life partner
- Jump into multiplayer and solo play in dozens of in-world games made by gamers, for gamers
- Compete with other Resident gamers in first-person shooters, fantasy RPGs, puzzle, and strategy games, all created by the Residents themselves
- Race to find scavenger hunt items across the entire world, or hunt your prey in assassination games where every Resident is a suspected triggerman (or triggerwoman!)
- Enjoy solo board games or story-driven adventures, or casual social games of chance and skill
- Acquire the ground beneath your feet; keep the rights to everything you create in-world
- Buy, rent, and sell land
- Develop the land you own, for personal use, business, or projects of all kinds
- Compete in online auctions to acquire property
- Retain Intellectual Property rights over your in-world creations. Your works are yours to do with as you please.

System requirements:
- 1GHz processor or better
- 512MB of RAM
- GeForce 2 or ATI Radeon 8500 graphics or better
- Internet Connection: Broadband (DSL/Cable Modem/LAN)
- Credit Card (required for sign up of free trial)

Version restrictions:
- 7 days trial

Enhancements
- Support for Mono
- Moderation for Group Text and Group Voice
- llDetectedTouch features in LSL
- Usability Improvements and Fixes

Save the world from the forces of E.V.I.L.!
Dirk Dashing is the number one operative in the top-secret organization called G.O.O.D. (Government Operatives On Duty), whose mission is to protect the world from terrorists and power-mad megalomaniacs. His missions take him to many exotic locales, where he must face dangerous enemies, avoid traps, and solve baffling puzzles in order to save the day!
As Dirk Dashing, you have been assigned to recover the seven largest diamonds in the world, which have been stolen from a museum exhibit by the international jewel thief, Pique Pockette. Your mission takes you to the Bavarian Alps of Southern Germany, where you will explore thirty spectacular, hand-painted levels in search of the stolen diamonds. Along the way, you will collect stolen loot and battle a horde of E.V.I.L. agents who are also hunting for the diamonds.
Main features:
- No blood, no gore, no fist-fights - Dirk throws knockout gas grenades and uses other non-lethal means to defeat his enemies
- 30 huge levels to explore, including 3 secret levels - each level is packed with secret areas and hidden treasures
- Cool spy gadgets that help you complete your mission
- A wide variety of hand-drawn, animated characters
- Spectacular hand-painted graphics, done with acrylic paints and watercolors
- Parallax scrolling with up to 16 graphic layers, for an exciting 3D look
- A rich collection of zany cartoon sound effects
- An original, upbeat music soundtrack
- Play using keyboard, joystick, or game pad
- Ability to save your game progress at any point
Dirk Dashing: Secret Agent runs natively on Linux, without the need for any third-party emulation software like WINE or Cedega. The game is compatible with SUSE 10, SUSE 10.1, Fedora Core 5, Debian, Ubuntu 6.0.6, and most recent Linux distributions.