Football fans spend hours playing simulation management games and the socially-obsessed play titles like ‘The SIMs‘ – but what about the dedicated Linux user who dreams of creating the next Ubuntu? Enter Linux Tycoon – a ‘ Linux Distro Building Simulator game’. Filling a niche you never knew needed filling. ‘Be the Next Mark Shuttleworth’ The premise of the [...]
A beta demo release of the text based adventure game Incursion has been made available to download. The indie game intends to meld old-skool RPG tropes with modern twists, including a ‘non-linear storyline’. The demo itself consists of only one level (as the game is still in active development), and you don’t get to do [...]
Our OMG! Ubuntu! themed typing game OMG! Words! has been updated with support for Ubuntu 11.10 and, ahead of its release this April, Ubuntu 12.04. Other than that there is nothing new: it still offers the same increasingly-frustrating game-play, cool soundtrack, and handful of annoying twists to make it a bit more challenging. All of the [...]
I am rubbish at racing games. Pole position in awfulness. I can just about manage a middling existence on Mario Kart, but that’s about it. So quite how I came to not only be addicted to a proper sci-fi themed racing game, but actually become rather good at it, is still a mystery to me, but [...]
Small indie game developer Cube Noir recently gave let us have a hands on with their forthcoming ‘text based adventure game’ Incursion. By their nature ‘text based’ games are considered old hat these days; in an era of high-def graphics and motion-controlled input the idea of gameplay momentum generated by reading passages of text and typing in commands [...]
The developers behind puzzle game Bobby have made the title free to download and play. Whilst the game is devilishly simple in theory – you, as a ket-pack powered hero called Bobby, have to knock bouncing balls into the spiralling vortex – it’s a lot (read: much) harder in practice. The ball-bouncing game features over [...]
