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Non-FPS Network Games to Play at Work?
lidocaineus asks: "I work at a small company with about 30 workstations. Two of us run Linux and three use Mac OS X, so on one of the servers, we installed Teg (both the server daemon and client). It works well since as a turn based game, the five of us are not beholden to it every second of the day, and can turn to it when we have a few free moments (and group chat all in one place other than through Jabber). Recently, some of the Windows folks have become interested in joining. Other than by using cygwin (these are serious computer-challenged types), are there any cross platform turn-based type game clients that work on Windows, preferably using the Linux server as a, well, server? Obviously we're not looking for a quake fest."
Scorched. Earth.
One of the greatest games ever, and the version I linked to (Scorched Earth 2000) has network multiplayer capabilities and is in Java, so it should work on Windows, Linux and Mac clients, or anything else with a web browser and JVM. The game is incredibly simple (just pick an angle, power level, and optionally a weapon), and the basics can be picked up in five minutes or so. Despite the simplicity, though, there are very few things in life that beat killing 4 friends at once with a Death's Head nuclear MIRV.
That's it. I'm no longer part of Team Sanity.
There is a java version of the client called jteg at
http://jteg.sourceforge.net/
which would run on windows
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it - Sir Winston Churchill
Obviously the "Windows only" thing at Yahoo is just to avoid hiring tech support people for other platforms.
More beautiful than chess, more dynamic. takes 30 years to master ...if you dare.
intro: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/game_of_go
best client: kgs.kiseido.com
pro world news: gobase.org
problems: goproblems.com
wiki: senseis.xmp.net
servers to avoid: IGS, yahoo.