Your Favorite 2D Linux Game

[punong_bisyonaryo]

The community 2D game list so far:

• Battle for Wesnoth
• BattleTanks
• Counter-Strike 2D
• Fish Fillet NG
• Frogatto (get from PlayDeb)
• Frozen Bubble
• Gjeweled
• gPlanarity
• Gtali
• Hedgewars
• Hero of Allacrost
• Iagno
• Jagged Alliance 2 (ported to Linux; not libre)
• KNetwalk
• KPatience
• lbreakout2
• Mana World
• N
• Jagged Alliance 2 (ported to Linux; not libre)
  
• Naev
• Nethack
• Nibbles
• Osmos
• Powder
• Pingus
• Ri-li
• Shoddy Battle
• Solar Wolf
• Super Tux
• Teeworlds
• Wormux

Special Mention (via Wine or requires hardware openGL)

• Angry Birds (via Wine)
• Chromium (Hardware rendering)
• Crack Attack (OpenGL!!)
• Cultivation (OpenGL)
• Dwarf Fortress (via Wine)
• Finity Flight
• Jagged Alliance 2 (via Wine)
• Secret Maryo Chronicles (Requires OpenGL as of v0.98 )
• Turtix (via Wine)

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I am currently searching high and low for great 2D games for Linux. By 2D games, I mean games that do not require Direct Rendering.

"In the age of 3D gaming, and with great 3D games for Linux like Tremulous, Nexuiz, Gridwars, and Frets on Fire, why look for 2D games", you may ask. For a few simple reasons:

• You have an old PC with a Riva GFX card
• Worse, you are cursed with a SiS graphics card
• You believe that great games can be made in 2D (ex. Castlevania. Just think about all the great games before 3D cards came into view)
• You believe some games would've looked better if it had been done with 2D sprites instead of crappy 3D models/engine.
• <Insert 3D game here> focused on graphics but forgot all about gameplay and design)
• Nostalgia

And on and on... Each of us may have different reasons if and why we like 2D games. I would've added a poll, but as of this moment, there are but a few 2D games I know of. Also, I know there are a LOT of "clones" out there. In helping promote originality, I would also like to ask about good (not necessarily great) but ORIGINAL 2D games as well.

So I'll begin with a few suggestions:

• BattleTanks - Overhead shooter similar to the NES game Battle City where you kill other tanks, change tanks and get power-ups
• Frozen Bubble - Like Bust-a-move. Excellent graphics.
• Pingus - Similar to Lemmings, but with Penguins instead.
• Ri-li - Quite original and polished. It gets a little repetitive after a few levels though.

[Cappy]

I'm currently playing Dwarf Fortress.

Site: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
Screenshot: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/screens.html
Guide: http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/i..._mode_tutorial
Wine (It's Platinum): http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...ation&iId=5608

It's free but it has an incredibly high learning curve. It's kind of like Dungeon Keeper/Sim City. It's NOT in any way a "pick up and play" game but those looking for depth will like it.

[Archmage]

Nethack. Didn't notice the grafics yet. But it is DEEP.

[atomkarinca]

Chromium is a very addictive game. From their FAQ:

Q: How well will it work with my video card?
A: This is a loaded question, but in general, Chromium should run well on a wide range of OpenGL hardware. Chromium is intended to run at 50fps, and has been tested successfully on machines ranging from a 266MHz laptop with a 4MB RagePro chip to a dual 800 with a GeForce2.

[Vadi]

Teeworlds.

[eragon100]

The Battle for Wesnoth, offcourse!

One of the best games ever made I just think they may want to make a "blood and gore" version, which wouldn't be as peaceful, and would have some body parts flying around

(Altough it's sys. requirements are steep for a 2d game: AT LEAST 1 ghz processor with 512 MB RAM, and more is (higly!) recommended. Video card doesn't really matter tough)

[ucal]

I'm currently playing Dwarf Fortress.

Site: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
Screenshot: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/screens.html
Guide: http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/i..._mode_tutorial
Wine (It's Platinum): http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...ation&iId=5608

It's free but it has an incredibly high learning curve. It's kind of like Dungeon Keeper/Sim City. It's NOT in any way a "pick up and play" game but those looking for depth will like it.

The game looks incredible, but I can't get it to work. Where did you extract it too?

[Cappy]

The game looks incredible, but I can't get it to work. Where did you extract it too?

Just extract it to a folder, change to the folder with the console, and run

wine dwarfort.exe

which of course requires wine: http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb

I'm considering packing the game with a gnome launcher and posting it on the forums.

[chritianpettet]

Kumusta

my favorite 2d game is lbreakout2

sudo aptitude install lbreakout2

[ucal]

Just extract it to a folder, change to the folder with the console, and run

wine dwarfort.exe

which of course requires wine: http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb

I'm considering packing the game with a gnome launcher and posting it on the forums.

Okay, it doesn't work unless I run it through the terminal. Just double clicking on the .exe (as i do successfully with most other wine applications) gives me the fatal error of a missing index.