Looking for good free online game
Can anyone tell me what they think is the best free online game for Linux? A big participation rate would be good. Perhaps one of those games where you become a character and wander around a virtual world for years doing stuff and interacting with other players would be cool. Some sort of GUI based game is preferable with perhaps some graphics. I don't play games much, but a little distraction from time to time would be nice.
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I like Bzflag
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You have to go for the obvious, and try 'runescape' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runescape I play it using firefox 2 (32 bit) with Java installed. If you install the 64bit version of Firefox the java part doesn't work yet.
There is lots to do with a free login, I have been playing for a while and haven't got round to completing many of the free quests yet. I sometimes have delays when logging in or bringing up the map, but I think this relates to server problems rather than my setup. |
Basing myself in what you say, I think you are looking for a 3D persistent fantasy MMORPG. If so, visit http://www.planeshift.it
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Savage 2 - A Tortured Soul
http://savage2.s2games.com/ Runescape is fun, especially if you use a IRC client to chat in a swiftirc chat room. Wesnoth is multiplayer but not a MMORPG. You best bet is to just search for Linux games, there are tons of them. |
Not sure if it is what you are looking for, but Enemy-Territory is a free online FPS. A great place to start is www.happypenguin.org You will find lots of commercial or free/open source games to distract you during your down times.
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I intalled bzflag as root in /usr/local/.
When root the game runs fine IF I execute the bzflag binary executable file by cliking on its icon when viewing the files in a GUI. If I try to execute as root from a terminal it won't run. I get; [root@myplace bzflag-2.0.8-x86-Opkg]# bzflag /usr/local/bin/../lib/OBLISK/bzflag-2.0.8/bin/bzflag: error while loading shared libraries: libXau.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory When I switch to another user it will not execute either from the GUI or a terminal. When I try from the GUI by clicking on the executable file, the screen goes into spasms and the user is logged out of the session. I get the following message when trying from a terminal; [me@myplace bzflag-2.0.8-x86-Opkg]$ bzflag /usr/local/bin/../lib/OBLISK/bzflag-2.0.8/bin/bzflag: error while loading shared libraries: libXau.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Any ideas what is going on? The game is there and works, I just can't quite get to it. |
Looks like you need to track down that library. Not sure where the best place to get MDK stuff, or if you are actually still using it, though. Google a bit for libXau and that will likely help.
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Thanks, I will look around. It is weird how when I launch as root via GUI it works 100%. Try to launch via another user or as root via command line and it fails.
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You should try (Mandrake - Mandriva): urpmi libxorg-x11, or installing that package.
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I disagree with uglydot and runnerfrog. I think you may already have the library installed, and the program just can't find it.
Otherwise, how would you have ever been able to run the program at all???? Quote:
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May be when it "works 100%" is loading with an "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=" that may include a library provided by the game package outside the OS path for libs, happens many times.
EDIT: libXau.so.6 is normally included into /usr/lib/ |
Yeah, I re-read that and realized my advice was dumb. So yeah, listen to them.
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Football is a pretty good game. Or cricket.
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