Games

I've figured out how to satisfy every interest I have with Linux, but games not so much. My view is that it's totally possible to be a happy gamer with Linux only, but, like everything else, it takes some investigation to find the good stuff -- and of course that's what I want to document.

So -- though I have oodles of things to say about teaching, videos, photos, wifi, data-crunching, coding, bill-paying and all manner of geek activities, I'll start with a silly game -- because this is a blog -- and
the silly game is what I'm doing tonight!

I am not a heavy gamer like kids. Not interested in Warcraft or Duke Nukem or whatever passes for single-player-shooter, massive multiplayer RPG or any of that stuff. I like the light games -- Luxor, Bugs, Tapdown, Bejeweled -- that sort of thing. So tonight I found frozen-bubble.

apt-get install frozen-bubble.

It's a cute little game. Similar to Bubble Madness and similar things on Windows -- but with much better graphics and some really nice cool jazz to play along to. So, that's the first native Linux, fully open-source, free, easy to install, Debian / Ubuntu kind of game I'll recommend.