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Games to play at work?

DeicistDeicist Registered User regular
edited August 2008 in Games and Technology
so, I finish work at my current employer in a month and until then I have literally no motivation at all. My job isn't overly strenuous anyway (combination of infrastructure support and helpdesk) so I have nothing to do 90% of the time anyway.

This overly rambling intro is basically to ask: What can I play at work?

I've been messing around with a remake of X-Com, but it's a bit deep for the kind of 'play for half an hour, stop to do a couple of helpdesk calls, then dive back in'. Ideally I'd quite like a turn based strategy, but I will consider literally anything that fits my basic criteria.

Here's those criteria:

Has to run on Ubuntu (wine is fine)
Has to be free
Has to run in a window

Any suggestions?

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The big one I can think of is N, the ninja game. Possibly the best, most pure (and most frustrating) platformer I've ever seen, it's easy enough to pick up and it gets hard enough to challenge anyone.

    Battle for Wesnoth is the turn-based strategy that gets paraded around because it's so easily available on Linux, the standard repos for Ubuntu should have it in there. Also check out FreeCiv.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Desktop Tower Defense
    Sudoku

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  • DavoidDavoid Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Crawl

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  • DeicistDeicist Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Some links would be nice too :)

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  • DavoidDavoid Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    http://crawl-ref.sourceforge.net/

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  • GPIA7RGPIA7R Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=58103


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    :3

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  • SeruleSerule Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Any roguelike (I see Crawl was already mentioned. Some like Nethack, but my fav is Angband:

    www.rephial.org

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Play "check the firewall for other open sessions to PA forums"

    I hear it's fun. :winky:

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    Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
  • DeicistDeicist Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Dwarf fortress has never really appealed to me.

    Crawl looks a little... simplistic (although that's probably the graphics snob in me)

    I should point out I'm much more interested in sci-fi settings than fantasy ones.

    Keep em coming though.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Battle for Wesnoth is pretty good and it runs natively in Linux.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I used to play Moria when I was a wee lad, Crawl looks like it's exactly what I'm looking for.

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  • DavoidDavoid Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Space Station 13?

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  • SilvoculousSilvoculous Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    SuperTux is a fun Mario clone and is available in the Ubuntu repos. Can't go wrong with Tetris either.

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  • DavoidDavoid Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Crawl is anything but simplistic, by the way, but, hn, sci-fi settings....

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