the game of life trial software / shareware for linux

Still Life is an icon set which aims to provide realistic, easy, and non-distractive icons. I tried to create a theme with a more realistic look than the default GNOME icon theme, but not with too much gloss and eye-candy, to keep ist usable.

It is mostly adhering to the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines and is still quite young and incomplete. This is a work in progress, much more things still to come.

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!

WeatherMasters game purpose is to build a rainbow across all the sky while cleaning the landscape from raindrops and thereby scattering the clouds.

A game includes 50 levels and combines unsophisticated, classic, easy-to-learn game play and an original action.

Mastering the game is facilitated by prompts. The game provides for bonuses that make a playing process varied and unforeseeable.

Not everybody is endowed with the ability to set fine weather, to scatter the clouds, to build a rainbow. You will be given such a chance in our game. It is not so easy, especially at first (as the weather gets better, it is easier to build a rainbow). Only those daring and decisive will set about it and when they manage to succeed they will be rewarded by the beauty appearing before them.

The beautiful landscape is saddened only by the gloomy cloud from where multicolored drops fall now and then. Drops fall on the land and remain there in layers.

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

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...

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

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?

All users of Linux now have a new great game - Challenge Checkers! The game is a wonderful training for you logic force and strategy skills.
You play with your device or with your partner, getting more and more experience on several skill levels. Enjoy also great graphics and sound - endless pleasure for devoted chess player of any age. A real challenge for all checkers masters!
Main features:
- two players mode
- game autosave on exit
- demo mode with advanced AI engine
- various sound and animation effects
Game Rules
The game is played on a board with dark and light squares, arranged in an 8x8 grid. Each player sets his 12 pieces on his side of the board in three ranks on dark checks. Checkers is played on the dark squares only. The players move one piece at one turn. The pieces may be moved diagonally.
A piece can only be moved forward. If one of your pieces is next to the opponents
piece and the square beyond it is free, you are required to jump over the opponents
piece. The opponents piece is then removed from the board. It is possible to jump many times in a row with the same piece, capturing several of your opponents pieces.
The squares placed in the last row on the opposite side of the board are King squares. "If a piece reaches the far end of the board, then it becomes a king. " The king is allowed to move and jump diagonally backwards and forwards. Kings can be captured like any other pieces.
The game lasts until all of the opponents pieces are captured, or are blocked so that they cannot make a move. The player who loses all the checkers or has them blocked loses the game.
The game runs on major Linus flavors (RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and others)