space games

[whitecore]

can anyone tell me wear i can get some space games like vega strike and x2:the threat

[hikaricore]

You can find vegastrike in the ubuntu repos, though it might be in universe or multiverse repos (repository info here (http://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu)), also at it's website here: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/

But I highly recommend Battlestar Galactica - Beyond The Red Line: http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/downloads.html

There's only a demo out now, but it's frackin amazing. :)

X2 is a commercial game which can be purchased for Linux from Tux Games: http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?&referrer=linuxgames&gameref=131 (demo download also at this link)
Also X3 is up for presale (estimated release May 2007): http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?&referrer=linuxgames&gameref=143

** Almost forgot to mention freespace2 which was open sourced.

You can find the data via one of sites listed here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html
Freespace linux installer (may not work as intended in all cases): http://icculus.org/~ravage/freespace2/
And a wiki about extracting cd data, compiling/installing and configuring the game: http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Fs2_open_on_Linux

[whitecore]

I was only using them as an example of the type of game play for others games out like them.
Thanks for ansering though

[eilu]

A good one is Astromenace, it's free for Linux users. http://www.viewizard.com/astromenace/index_linux.php

[charlieg]

Two other good free ones:
- Oolite (http://oolite.aegidian.org/)
- No Gravity (http://www.realtech-vr.com/nogravity/)

Article on Free Gamer about space games:
http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2006/06/open-source-3d-space-games.html

[sdowney717]

scott@scott-desktop:~$ ./BtRLDemoInstaller.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Beyond the Red Line Demo.............................................. .................................................. .................
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
cp: cannot stat `/data/players/single/Nugget.pl2': No such file or directory
Couldn't run Beyond the Red Line Demo (btrl_demo.bin). Is FSO_DATA_PATH set?



game installed ok and game wont start up.
Any ideas?

[sdowney717]

sudo gave me less errors, so now what is FSO path?


scott@scott-desktop:~$ sudo ./BtRLDemoInstaller.run
Password:
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Beyond the Red Line Demo.............................................. .................................................. .................
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
Couldn't run Beyond the Red Line Demo (btrl_demo.bin). Is FSO_DATA_PATH set?
scott@scott-desktop:~$

[sdowney717]

Ha, I went into where the game was installed and ran the bin directly and it works.