A game is a structured or semi-structured recreational activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment (although sometimes for physical or vocational training). A goal that the players try to reach and a set of rule concerning what the players can or cannot do create the challenge and structure in a game, and are thus central to its definition.
Known to have been played as far back as prehistoric times, games are generally distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration. Because a wide variety of activities are enjoyable, numerous types of games have developed.
What creates an enjoyable game varies from one individual to the next. Age, understanding (of the game), intelligence level, and (to some extent) personality are factors that determine what games a person enjoys. Depending on these factors, people vary the number and complexity of objectives, rules, challenges, and participants to increase their enjoyment.
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AMOR - AMOR is an acronym for Amusing Misuse of Resources. It is a small themeable animation that sits on top of your active window.
Black Penguin - Arcade style jump-on-cubes game.
Meta Description: [ Black Penguin 0.2 GPL Arcade Game for Linux, runs under X11, needs Qt and/or KDE ]
Boson - A real-time strategy game, like Command Conquer or StarCraft.
Meta Description: [ Boson is a free real-time strategy game for KDE ]
DroidBattles - A game of programming. The task is to design your bots and then use the hardware as efficiently as possible by writing a program for it, with the mission to kill any enemy bots on the playground.
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EasySok - A sokoban game for KDE. In sokoban you are a warehouse keeper which has to push gems on their goals.
FreeLords - A free Warlords clone for MacOS X, BeOS, Linux and Windows. (Open Source)
Meta Description: [ The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications ]
Kalcul - A math game for children aged 8 to 15.
Meta Description: [ XHTML,tutoriels Linux pour débutants en français. ]
Kard - A game for small children, aged 2 to 7. Its aim is to help develop memory and concentration. It is based on the memory game.
Meta Description: [ XHTML,tutoriels Linux pour débutants en français. ]
KAtomic - You have to recreate the given molecul with the atoms in the left field.
Meta Description: [ KAtomic, a program for Kde, KAtomic, a program for Kde ]
KBillar - A billiard game where everything is user definable: the table, borders, ball properties, and gravity.
KBoxes! - A little mind game you can play against other humans or the computer. The objective is to wipe out boxes in turn from a set of 1, 3, 5, and 7 boxes.
Kcheat - Automatic cheating system for Linux and Linux-like OS's
Meta Description: [ Automatic cheating system for Linux and Linux-like OS's ]
KFLog - KFlightLogger - An OpenSource soaring-pilot-software for KDE. It is used to display, analyze and evaluate flights logged with a gps-logger.
KFortune - Displays a fortune each time it is run.
Meta Description: [ The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications ]
KFoulEggs - An adaptation of the Japanese game Puyo-Puyo. If you have played Tetris, or one of its many clones, you will find kfouleggs easy to learn.
KHangMan - a Linux game for children 6+
Meta Description: [ K Desktop Environment Homepage, KDE.org ]
KInsectizid - 2D-Shooter for KDE.
Klotski - A small brick game which has its root in a wooden game named (in french) Ane rouge. The goal is to bring the red piece to its destination by moving other pieces.
Meta Description: [ Klotski homepage ]
KMameRun - KDE Frontend for M.A.M.E., an arcade-game emulator.
Meta Description: [ Frontend for M.A.M.E. ]
KMatrix - The Matrix Has You - KMatrix is just a simple matrix background that shows the movement of matrix elements.
KMines - Little game similar to the well known game on Microsoft Windows.
Kmud - A free graphical MUD client.
Meta Description: [ Kmud is a free MUD client for KDE under Linux/UNIX ]
KPooka - A logic game for linux/KDE. Kind of a cross between Pengo and Sokoban.
Meta Description: [ The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications ]
KPuzzle - A KDE jigsaw puzzle that can be used with any picture.
KRogue - Rogue for KDE. Explore dungeons, fight with monsters, use magic items and find the amulet of Yendor.
KRouletteSim - Proposes a method to improve playing the roulette game.
KRubik - A 3D model of the famous Rubik's cube.
Meta Description: [ KDE.com Homepage ]
KsirK - A Free and Open Source Strategy Game for KDE. Introduction, Installation, Downloads, Documentation, Contacts, Status and Links.
Meta Description: [ A Free and Open Source (GPL) Strategy Game for KDE (Risk clone) ]
KSirtet - A game for KDE that is derived from Tetris.
KSlide - A game in which you slide pictures around into the right order.
Meta Description: [ Page source de l'ensemble de cadres du modle #7 de HTML Constellation ]
KSnes9x - A Snes9x launcher.
KSokoban - The Japanese warehouse keeper game.
KSpaceduel - A space arcade game. Two ships fly around the sun and try to shoot each other.
Meta Description: [ Homepage of Andreas Zehender - KSpaceduel ]
KStella - A KDE frontend to the Atari 2600 emulator, Stella.
KTamaga - A Tamagotchi emulator for KDE.
Meta Description: [ KTamaga is a Tamagotchi emulator for X-Window ]
KTorus - A simple game inspired by Torus for DOS. The object of KTorus is to clear falling toruses by aligning toruses with the same color on one of several protruding pipes (the game concept is similar to Tetris(R)).
KTuberling - A game for little kids; it's a potato editor
KWanda - A fish applet for the KDE panel (kicker).
QBrew and HarnMaker - A homebrewer's recipe calculator and a character generator for the HarnMaster roleplaying game.
Meta Description: [ All of David's crufty code ]
QNetWalk - A Qt-version of the popular NetWalk game for system administrators.
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Qt NetHack - Play NetHack with a nice graphical Qt Interface
rikkus.info - Madness - A port of a toy with the same name from RISC OS. When started, the windows on the screen move around the desktop in a semi-random fashion, bouncing off screen edges and the panel.
Truffle-Swine Keeper - A minesweeper clone that contains an algorithm to compute the probability that a mine is under a certain field.
Meta Description: [ Truffle-Swine Keeper is a minesweeper clone that contains an algorithm to compute the probability that there's a mine under a certain field. ]
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