Frogatto & Friends - One of the TOP 10 Arcade
Free Software & Open Source Games for GNU / Linux and
FreeBSD
1. Frogatto & Friends - Is an
Indian Free Software
(Open Source) game in the spirit of old-school jump'en runs
like
Commander Keen, Prehistoric, Jazz Jack Rabbit
The game is really entertaining, the graphics looks approximately
nice, the music is awesome, the gamelplay is good even though after
some point in the game the moment with "where should I go now, I
can't find exit" comes through and it gets boring.
Generally if you compare with all the existing
jump and run
arcade games free software games available for
Linux and
FreeBSD the game will definetely arrange itself in the list of
TOP 10 free software Arcade Games
and therefore its my own believe that Frogatto is a game that every
GNU / Linux and FreeBSD desktop should have in
Application ->
Games GNOME menu.
Frogatto is rich of levels, enemies obstacles objects, places to
visit (which puts it ahead of many of the linux arcade games which
often miss enough game levels, has a too short game plots, or
simply miss overall game diversity).
The game's general look & feel is like a professional game and
not just some tiny
free software arcade, made by its authors
for the sake to learn some programming, graphics or music
creation.
Besides that
Frogatto & Friends is multi-platform
supporting all the major operating systems.
Game supports:
- Windows
- Mac
- iPhone
- Debian GNU / Linux
- FreeBSD
The game
source code is also available on
Frogatto.com - The Game's
Official website
The game is available as a deb package in Debian and Ubuntu GNU /
Linuxes so to install on those deb based distributions, simply use
apt:
debian:~# apt-get install frogatto
...
The above command will install two packages
frogatto
(containing the game's main executable binary) and
frogatto-data containinng all the game textures, levels,
graphics, music etc.
BTW the package saparation on a
gamename and
gamename-data in Debian (for all those who have not still
noticed), can be seen on most of the games with a game data that
takes more disk space.
After the game is installed the only way to start the game is to
run it manually through pressing
ALT+F2 in GNOME or running
the progrtam through
gnome-terminal with cmd:
debian:~$ frogatto
Here are few more
Frogatto gameplay screenshots:
I've noticed
Frogatto is also available as an RPM package
for Fedora Linux, as well as has a FreeBSD port in the
/usr/ports/games/frogatto and this makes it easy to install
on most free software OSes in the wild.
While checking
frogatto.com , I found an interesting link to
a website offering
free graphics (pictures), textures and sounds
for free and open source games for all those who hold interest
into the development of
Free Software & Open Source
Games make sure you check
OpenGameArt.org
OpenGameArt.org looks like a great initiative and will
definitely be highly beneficial to the development of more and
better
FSOS Games so I wish them God speed with this noble
initiative.
Frogatto is very suitable for growing kids since it doesn't
contain no violence and every now and then the main game actor the
Frogatto Frog leads few lines English dialogues with some of
the characters found in the quest.
For none speaking English countries, the game can help the kids to
learn some basic english words and thus can
help develop kids
intellect and knowledge
And oh yeah one more criticism towards the game is the Enlish
structure, it seems people who wrote the plot can work this out in
the time to come. Many of the English sentences during dialogues
the frog leads with the cranks he met does not sound like a common
and sometimes even correct english / phrases.
Besides those little game "defect", the game is pretty awesome and
worthy to kill some time and
relax from a long stressy
day.