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Education

  • Celestia is a space simulation (planetarium) that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
     
  • Freeduc , a directory of free software for education.
     
  • Seul/Edu , Educational Application Index.
     
  • Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
     
  • Tux4Kids Tux4Kids is an organization dedicated to producing and promoting quality educational software released under Free-Software or other OSI Certified licenses.

Games

  • Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.
     
  • Crack Attack is a  free OpenGL game for Linux and Windows based on the Super Nintendo classic
    Tetris Attack.
     
  • Cube is an open source multiplayer and single player first person shooter game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Uses OpenGL & SDL.
     
  • Egoboo is a 3d dungeon crawling adventure in the spirit of NetHack.
     
  • JavaRisk is a strategic game roughly based on the board game ´Risk´.
     
  • LGames is a site with several games originally developed for Linux but some have binaries for Microsoft Windows.
     
  • Lincity is a city simulation game for SVGALIB, X Windows and Microsoft Windows.
     
  • NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game. Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight.
     
  • Netrek is a multi-player battle simulation with a Star Trek theme.
     
  • On Sight aims to differ from the classic turn-based strategy (TBS) games in that a player who has suffered losses has still a chance to win. On Sight could be compared to the classic game Laser Squad , or the more modern Jagged Alliance .
     
  • Pingus is a free Lemmings clone for GNU/Linux and Windows.
     
  • PySolitaire is a fork of PySol Solitaire that runs correctly on Windows and has a nice clean installer. PySolitaire (Python Solitaire) is a collection of more than 300 solitaire and Mahjongg games like Klondike and Spider.
     
  • Scorched 3D is a game based loosely (or actually quite heavily now) on the classic DOS game Scorched Earth "The Mother Of All Games".
     
  • Scorched Earth 2000 is a remake of the old classic game by Wendell Hicken which was very popular in the early 1990s. Java Applet with multiplayer over the Internet.
     
  • Sokoban YASC - Yet Another Sokoban Clone - for Windows. Rich on game features, such as unlimited undo, path finding, reverse mode, and a replay mode. Good import functions, level editor, highly configurable. Extra: Built-in music player.
     
  • Transfusion plunges you into a world originally created in 1997 by Monolith Productions. Created with the BUILD game engine (Duke Nukem, Shadow Warrior), Blood was a tour de force of horror that has yet to be matched, in which you battled minions of evil in a lightning-paced, blood splattered quest for glory.
     
  • Vega Strike is the 3D Space Simulator that allows you to trade and bounty hunt in a vast universe.
     
  • VideoToons is an Arcade Multiplayer Game entirely written in Java. It is a tribute to old video games such as Mario, Sonic, Pc Kid....

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