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Updated Crimson Fields Debian Package
I'm currently trying to reduce the backlog regarding my Debian work. Today I packaged the new upstream release of Crimson Fields, a turn-based strategy game in the tradition of Battle Isle (tm). Expect...
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My Wesnoth Replays Online [Update]
Battle for Wesnoth seems to become a real threat for the Debian project. More and more Debian developers get sucked into the world of elves, dwaves, orcs, zombies and mages — and only few return...On a...
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Minesweeper is NP-complete
In the year 2000, Richard Kaye published a paper in which proved that Minesweeper is NP-complete. He has some very nice slides which demonstrate how the proof works.Later, he also proved that Infinite...
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Flickr + Memory = Memry
OMFG! Only yesterday I said there's no really nice Flash website out there. I might have to reconsider.I just found Memry, a memory game written in Flash, which uses flickr images tagged with a given...
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xbubble: xlibs-dev transition done
Just a quick update on Amaya Rodrigo's recent post on Planet Debian about xbubble's upstream author sending a patch for the Debian xlibs-dev transition: I have uploaded a (hopefully) fixed version of...
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Nexuiz - a fast-paced, GPL'd ego shooter
Although I'm not a "gamer", I enjoy playing computer games from time to time. First-person shooters are especially well-suited for relaxing after a long and exhausting day ;-)IMHO a very good choice,...
View ArticleStuff III
Back Door Found in Diebold Voting Machines. Really? Who would have thought?You can now say apt-get install sun-java5-jdk (and a few other packages) in Debian, as Sun has finally relaxed its license a...
View ArticleThe Free Ryzom Campaign - A campaign to buy Ryzom and publish it under the GPL
Ryzom is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) developed by the French company Nevrax. It is based on the NeL game engine (also from Nevrax), which is GPL'd already.As "due to market...
View ArticleFree Ryzom Campaign now supported by the FSF [Update]
The Free Ryzom Campaign that I have mentioned earlier is now officially supported by the Free Software Foundation with a donation pledge of $60.000 (which now makes a total of ca. 134.000 Euros...
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Sim City, Micropolis, Lincity, Lincity-NG
Hm, time for some nostalgia. The original Sim City game is now GPL'd under the new name Micropolis, and currently being packaged for Debian. There goes my 3.7 minutes of spare time per day...If you're...
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Teeworlds - a fun, fast-paced, open-source, online multiplayer shooter
I have no idea how such a great open-source game as Teeworlds has been able to exist without me hearing about it until recently.Teeworlds is a fast-paced realtime multiplayer shooter. You control a...
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