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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."
Freeciv is good to play - linux/mac/win clients.
freeciv.org
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
You could get in some multiplayer games through your web browser. I have played some Go with a friend at a different office at work. Yahoo has tons of them up that are simple, multiplayer games. Since it is through the web browser the platform won't be of much concern.
Isn't there a Java-based client on this page? It even says "a Java version of the client (also for Windows)".
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Stars! is a turn-based 4x game that's completely awesome. The graphics are a little dated -- ok, the graphics are a LOT dated -- but the game is incredibly good.
This is the website.
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For everything else, there's mod points.
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.
Pretend like you're actually doing your job.
There is a java version of the client called jteg at
http://jteg.sourceforge.net/
which would run on windows
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I don't know for sure, but I've heard of this great massively multiplayer online game. You write responses and answers based upon semi-random blurbs of information and questions, and each answer has the possibility of either giving you points or taking away some of your points. The only detractors I've run into are the recent exiting of the point-tracking system for each user and the fact that the humor-logic seems to be a tiny bit out of whack. But other than that, it's just fine, and it works on every platform!
:-)
I think it was called Slashdot, but I'm not sure. It could have been dashdot.org, because I remember something about morse code on it, a while back.
Anyhow, it's a great game, and hopefully everyone out there will realize that this comment is to be taken in jest.
~UP
Eat the Path.
The first interactive game I ever played extensively. Still one of the best.
On X11:
http://www.xpilot.org/
on windows:
http://www.buckosoft.com/xpilot/xpilotnt/
Try "Empire". Then see who comes in just before the update pops at 4am and wipes you out... (to attack, you ideally move your forces into place just before an update, and then commence your attack just after the update. Doing it at 4am increases the odds of your opponent being happily in bead. Of course, you then need to be there at 8am or whenever, when they discover that they've been wiped out...
There's also "Netrek" (Paradise client).