PixBros a nice Arcade Game remake of Bubble
Bobble for GNU/Linux
While checking my sister's notebook running Ubuntu GNU/Linux. I
decided to check the gui package installer for some new Linux games
that entered Ubuntu 11.04. A quick view over the games and I come
across awesome game called
PixBros
The game is combining three great arcade games from my young years
Bubble Bobble, Snow Bros and Tumple Pop . The game really
brought some joy to my boring lifeand here it comes I've written a
small article to share my little joy.
In the game you can select one of three characters and play a
remake version of
Bubble Bobble on your Linux Desktop.
Besides that the music is absolutely awesome like it is with most
of the classic arcade games ;)
The game characters graphics is also trendy, like you can see in
the screen below:
The game history is also intriuging and in the old-school arcade
games spirit.
The game is published under GPL v2, so its one more great game in
the family of free software games ;)
PixBros has also port (binary installer) for
Windows,
Nintendo Wii and few other platforms. As a multi-platform
game its very suitable for little Children to develop their
reflexes and intellect. Therefore for parents who wants to use free
software to grow up their kids mind, PixBros will fit well with
other games like
Tux
Math, Tux Paint, Tux Typing which are stimulating the kid to
learn
The game is also great for big kids like me and other arcade
maniacs as well ;)
I have only one small note about the game just like with many other
Linux games, by default the game starts in minimized screen and
trying to play it in fullscreen is only possible by using the menus
available from within the game itself.
This kind of behaviour reduces some of the initial game enjoyment
and maybe in the future releases of the game let's say when it
reaches stable version 1.0 it will be nice the game to start in
fullscreen by default.
The creator team of
PixBros -
Pix Juegos has 4 other
games created, all of which are primary developed for GNU/Linux and
downloadable from
PixJuegos game
dev crew official website . Unfortunately the crew official
website does not English translation.
The other games from PixJuegos one can enjoy are;
A Remake of
the classic Atari frog game again for Linux (available for
install via a deb package on latest Ubuntu 11.04):
A Super Pang modern remake -
Pix Pang , below is a
screenshot for all those that can't remember Pang ;)
Super Pang
Here is also a screenshot of PixJuegos's
PixPang running on
Linux:
PixGuegos game development team has also two other games in their
site portfolio; this are
Garnatron and
PixDash . Here
are screenshots:
Congrats to the guys of PixJuegos for their great Linux games! I
wish them a lot of success and a lot of productive years in Linux
game development ;)