{"id":7325,"date":"2004-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/10\/linux-gaming\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"linux-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/10\/linux-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040526-born_to_frag.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nAccidentally, I&#8217;ve spent the whole day playing a bunch of Linux games.  That is what happens when you just pass by the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.happypenguin.org\/\">Happy Penguin<\/A> web site.  Here is the top three games:<UL><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<LI>NetPanzer &#8211; multiplayer network tank game.  Nice graphics and sounds and live chat.  Also there was no difficulty finding the server.  I&#8217;ve been mostly dead though, but I still enjoyed it very much.  There were even some people that Allied with me. :)<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<LI>LiquidWar &#8211; a somewhat doom\/quake mixture.  Some nice graphics, but balance of the game is a bit off and my sound of was lacking behind a second or so for some reason.  Still nice. :)<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<LI> Open Mortal &#8211; that one should is actually on the first place. :)  As you might have already guessed, it is a clone of Mortal Combat &#8211; a well known game.  But this one is totally rewritten, looks similar, but heros are real fun! :) Evil forces are set to still Saturday from people and are about to leave the humanity with 5 working days and only one holiday for ever!   Good forces should prevent them.  Real fun. :)<\/UL><\/p>\n<p>In the evening we went to see &#8220;<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0314331\/\">Love Actually<\/A>&#8220;, which was better then we expected.  There were some laughs and few nice shots of scenery.  Not too bad.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Accidentally, I&#8217;ve spent the whole day playing a bunch of Linux games. That is what happens when you just pass by the Happy Penguin web site. Here is the top three games: NetPanzer &#8211; multiplayer network tank game. Nice graphics and sounds and live chat. Also there was no difficulty finding the server. I&#8217;ve been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/10\/linux-gaming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linux gaming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7759,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/04\/doom-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":7325,"position":0},"title":"Doom 3","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 4, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Slashdot has some more Doom 3 coverage. 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