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FooBillard is a free OpenGL-billard game for Linux with realistic physics, AI-player and many gametypes like pool carambol or snooker. Why foo? Well, actually I had this logo (F.B.-Florian Berger) and then foo sounds a bit like pool (Somehow I wasn't quite attracted by the name FoolBillard) The main physics is quite mature but not yet perfect. If you are a billard-pro and you're missing some physics, please tell me. Cause I've implemented it like I think it should work, which might differ from reality.

There are two supported implementations concerning the interface. A GLUT and an SDL implementation. So you need to have either GLUT or SDL installed on your system Furthermore libpng has to be installed for loading the textures and freetype2 is required for font rendering.

Here are some key features of "FooBillard":
· wood paneled table with gold covers and gold diamonds
· reflections on balls
· shadow pixmaps
· detail switching of balls according to distance
· zoom in/out - hold right mousebutton
· FOV +/- - hold right mousebutton + CTRL
· rotate - hold left mousebutton
· animated queue
· 8ball, 9ball, snooker, carambol
· simple AI-Player
· strength adjustment
· eccentic hit adjustment (button2-Shift)
· red/green 3D stereo view !!!
· sound
· network play
· free view mode

Here are some key features of "FooBillard":
· wood paneled table with gold covers and gold diamonds
· reflections on balls
· shadow pixmaps
· detail switching of balls according to distance
· zoom in/out - hold right mousebutton
· FOV /- - hold right mousebutton CTRL
· rotate - hold left mousebutton
· animated queue
· 8ball, 9ball, snooker, carambol
· simple AI-Player
· strength adjustment
· eccentic hit adjustment (button2-Shift)
· red/green 3D stereo view !!!
· sound
· network play
· free view mode
Download FooBillard From here.

SuperTuxKart is a Free 3d kart racing game; we want to make the game fun more than we want to make it realistic. You can play with up to 4 friends on one PC racing against each other, or just try to beat the computer.

See the great lighthouse or drive through the sand and visit the pyramids. Race under water or in space, watching the stars passing by. Have some rest under the palms on the beach (watching the other karts overtaking you. But don't fall in the volcano.

You can do a single race against other karts, compete in one of several Grand Prix, or try to beat the high score in time trials on your own.

Here are some key features of "SuperTuxKart":
* 12 tracks
* Multiplayer support
* Grandprix
* Single Race
* Time Trail
* Funny Characters
* Runs on GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOSX

Requirements:
* SDL
* OpenGL
* PLIB

What's New in This Release:
Version 0.5 of SuperTuxKart has been released. It offers 6 new and improved tracks, a new game mode ('Follow the Leader'), new Grand Prix, some new music, and translations into German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Swedish. The new tracks and game modes need to be unlocked: you have to fulfill a challenge in order to use them. If all challenges are done, a preview of the upcoming skidding support can be tested.
Download SuperTuxKart right now from here.

SuperTux project is a classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original SuperMario games. The Milestone1 release of SuperTux features 9 enemies, 26 playable levels, software and OpenGL rendering modes, configurable joystick and keyboard input, new music and completly redone graphics.

Together with a little story, we hope to provide a good gaming experince with this first Milestone release.

The improvments in Milestone1 are in huge part the result of the work done surrounding the Game of the Month March 2004 event on happypenguin.org.

The Milestone1 section of this webpage was mainly used to coordinate development and to post sketches and other things. It will give you an overview of the development of the features and enemies that have gone in Milestone1, it might be a bit outdated and is mainly present for historic reasons to those interested in the development.

What's New in 0.3.1 Development Release:
* Four new Forest levels
* On the forest island, Tux must collect Keys to solve the final level
* Slightly improved Antarctica and Bonus World levels
* New and improved sound track that can loop seamlessly
* The Windows version now ships with OpenAL
* An experimental Addon Manager allows downloading new game content
* Screenshots can be saved by pressing a key
* Level statistics are tracked and saved
* Several improvements to the engine and scripting system

Download Elive 1.8.2 right now from here.