OK linux is not known as a gaming platform
BUT there are some out there and a few are pretty good
so what do you think are the best games for linux and where can they be gotten

the best I have found so far is gl-117 at http://www.heptargon.de/gl-117/gl-117.html

your can tweak the options to get better performance full screen at the highest resolution
preforms the best on my machine

A few helpful links:

Linux-Gamers
LinuxGames
The Linux Game Tome

these are web sites for games but what I wanted was games people here had tested
at one time of another I have tried to get a lot of these games working and most would just not build or not run

I would rather find out weather or not the game works before
I waste time on something that will not even build or run
wasting time playing a game is one thing
wasting time meeting dependences and finding out that the game will not even build or run is something I would rather not do

Even confirmation of games, successfully building and running (which i can give for many of those games) for others, is no guarantee that it will do the same for you. They all work, it's just that some may need more attention than others.

Somebody has to do it. Why not give something back?

If you want to minimise the risk of a game not building or running, stick to those provided by your repositories. Needless to say, using that method will mean, there are many games you will miss out on.

Thats where Debians HUGE repository comes in handy.. many of hte games are already there..

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Quake
Quake2
Quake3
Doom3
ut2004
saurbraughten (sp?)



You should browse the game forum here, theres been several threads there discussing games people like.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-games-33/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_games

Tons of great games out there that run natively..


This one is just being released, I haven;t tried it yet but it looks good ! http://bloodfrontier.com/


Err can you tell I like FPS games ?

I run a 64bit port of Slackware
the only games that come with my distro are the ones that come with KDE + gnu chess

linux gamers has an imposable to get past bot check on all feed back so there is no way to report a non working game


linux games has less than 10 games I can't find a list of games other than what's on the main page
that makes this page pretty much usless

the linux game tome is also missing a list of games

this is just about what I keep running in to when it comes to linux games it's hard to even find a useful web site let alone working games

Thank You
this is almost kind of reply I was looking for

Now where dose Debian keep the source code for these games

well there are installers for the Quake based games..

http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/

http://www.liflg.org/?catid=6


Id has their sourcecode here: http://www.idsoftware.com/business/techdownloads/ if that is what you want..

Debian has source in the source repositories..
for instance Openarena (the updated Quake3) http://packages.debian.org/source/lenny/openarena


Another thread of interest What are the Best games on Linux - LQ.org

thank you
the what are the best linux games thread
was what i was looking for
I'm setting up a linux computer for my nephews they are HARD core gamers I'm tiring spark an interest in computers in them I'll show them some games then hand the rest in source code and make them install them (I will test them then uninstall them )
BUT the games have to build and have to work or they will walk away and never come back

You forgot quake4, urbanterror, openarena, war$ow, neverwinter nights, X2, America's Army, Defcon, Darwinia, Uplink, Prey, etc. It was discussed in the past, many times.