'Tis the season to frag with Linux (LinuxWorld) [LWN.net]

Joe Barr plays around with Cube, a first person shooter game that runs on Linux. "Cube is the name and killing is the game. Written with a single codebase to support both Windows and Unix platforms through the magic of open standards like OpenGL and SDL, the game is both free as in beer and as in speech. Cube is not bogged down with a long storyline or complex gameplay. According to the documentation, the official storyline goes like this: "You kill stuff. The end." Cube is free software, albeit not as in GPL'd code. It uses a GPL-compatible, free software-license called the Zlib license, which is similar to the BSD license."

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Very impressive stuff!

Posted Dec 12, 2002 13:48 UTC (Thu) by alspnost (subscriber, #2763) [Link]

I downloaded and installed Cube last night, and I'm incredibly impressed. This is not experimental software; this is a fully working Quake Arena clone with superb graphics, awesome customisation potential, and hilarious multiplayer action, all supplied in a disarmingly compact 10Mb zip file for Linux _and_ Windows.

I hammered away on this a _lot_ yesterday evening, and never had a single glitch or crash. The performance under Linux, using the notorious NVidia driver (sorry!) is staggering.

Anyone who enjoys daft blast-em-up games, or anyone who wants to prove to their friends that Linux supports - nay, excels at - world-class 3D gaming engines should install Cube right now!