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The End Is Nigh For the Linux Game Tome

Posted by Unknown on from the end-of-an-era dept.

First time accepted submitter Sodki writes "The Linux Game Tome, one of the most important websites related to video gaming in GNU/Linux, will shut down on the 13th of April, according to a news post published on the website. The decision was made due to the 'lack both the time and the ambition to do what is necessary to keep the site afloat,' which has resulted in 'spam clogging the forums, lack of updates and increasing brokenness of the site.' This might not be the end, though. The maintainers of The Linux Game Tome will make available a dump of the games database, so that anyone interested can cook up a new and updated version of the website, and a worthwhile effort will be considered for a transfer of ownership of the domain. The current source code of the website, which is from 1999, will not be available because 'it is not fit for human consumption.'" It certainly had a good run; I remember poking around the Linux Game Tome as a teenager in the misty past (and it's where I discovered Freeciv, Warzone 2100, and lbreakout2). Are there any alternatives already operating (unfortunately, Freecode doesn't seem popular with game authors)? Or: Which one of you is going to write the Linux Game Tome 3.0?

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  1. Re:Uh, by ledow · · Score: 3, Informative

    You mean like the one on the first entry here:

    http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term=team+fortress+2

    ?

  2. Re:Uh, by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe you were looking for this:
    http://www.playdeb.net/welcome/

    The reality is Steam offers something not yet available on linux AAA games, even if out of date so far. You don't have to use it, and you can avoid distros that package it even, but it exists for those who want to use it.

  3. Re:Not that big of a deal by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dozens of "sites" yes.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+games&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS498US498&aq=f&oq=linux+games&aqs=chrome.0.57j59j60j62j61j60.1692&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 none of these are anywhere as comprehensive as the Game Tome.

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  4. Re:Most Important Websites... by displague · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did you ever Altavista search "linux games"? If you were looking for Linux games you would have found this site, along with Happy Penguin (I think they started as separate sites - could be wrong on that), and Tux Games. Eventually Loki Games got things really rolling, and now we have Steam.

    Freshmeat would be the obvious other place to search for Linux games. The TuCows Linux site wasn't very reliable.

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  5. Libregamewiki by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    For games that are free software and have their media released under a free license as well, check out

    https://libregamewiki.org/