GNOME Games is a collection of games for the GNOME desktop, however they work just as well with the KDE Desktop in Kubuntu. The package is comprised of 16 games which are designed to be simple, but addictive, and are spread out among three subcategories. These subcategories are:
GNOME Games can be easily installed with the Adept Package Manager by either searching for or selecting the gnome-games package. GNOME Games is located in the Main repositories. Refer to the Adept Package Manager section for installation instructions.
Once installed, start any of the GNOME Games applications by going to → and selecting the game of your choice.
Spellen in de "Arcade spelletjes"-subsectie bestaan uit:
Nibbles is een spel waarbij de speler een slang bestuurt, het over het bord beweegt en diamanten eet terwijl het de muren ontwijkt. Nibbles is ook via een netwerk met meerdere spelers te spelen, en met tot vier wormen die door de computer worden bestuurd.
Robots is een spel waarbij het doel is om een horde robots te ontwijken die u willen verslaan, met elke stap komt u dichter bij de actie.
Games in the "Board Games" subsection consist of:
3D Schaak is een 2D/3D schaakspel waarin u tegen de computer of tegen andere spelers kunt spelen. glChess, het eigenlijke programma, detecteert alle bekende, door derden gemaakte schaak-engines als computergestuurde tegenstanders.
Mahjongg is een eenpersoonsversie van het klassieke tegelspel. Het doel is om paren van gelijke tegels te selecteren.
Games in the "Card Games" subsection consist of:
Aisleriot, ook bekend als Solitaire of sol, is een verzameling van kaartspellen die gemakkelijk met de muis te spelen zijn.
Blackjack is een blackjack-spel dat volgens de casino regels wordt gespeeld en die meerdere spellen kaarten bevat. Het doel is om hogere kaarten te hebben dan de deler, zonder over de 21 heen te gaan. Afbeeldingskaart plus een aas is 21, Blackjack!
Freecell is een ander Solitaire-spel dat erg populair is op het Windows™ platform.
De volgende lijst is een lijst van spellen die nog niet eerder in de GNOME-spellen voorkwamen. subsectie:
Five or More is the GNOME port of the once popular Windows™ game called Color Lines. The objective is to align, as often as possible, five or more objects of the same color causing them to disappear.
Four-in-a-row is another matching game in which the objective is to build a line of four of your marbles while trying to stop your opponent, human or computer, from building a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of their own.
Gnometris is a clone of the classic falling-block game, Tetris. The objective of the game is to create complete horizontal lines of blocks, which will disappear creating more space for more possible points. The blocks come in seven different shapes made from four blocks each: one straight, two L-shaped, one square, and two S-shaped. The blocks fall from the top center of the screen in a random order, allowing you to rotate and move them as needed.
Iagno is a computer version of the game Reversi, more popularly known as Othello. It is a two-player strategy game with an 8 by 8 board including tiles that are black on one side and white on the other side. The object is to flip as many of your opponent's tiles to your color as possible without your opponent flipping your tiles. This is done by trapping your opponents tiles between two tiles of your own color.
Klotski is a clone of the original Klotski game in which the objective is to move the patterned block to the area bordered by green markers.
Mines, or gnomine, is a puzzle game where you locate mines floating in an ocean using only your brain and a little bit of luck. Mines is a clone of the popular Windows™ game, Minesweeper.
Same Gnome is a highly-addictive puzzle game where the object is to remove the most amount of marbles in as few moves as possible. Marbles that are of the same color and that are adjacent to each other are removed as a group. The remaining marbles will then collapse, filling in the gaps, forming new groups.
GNOME Sudoku is a logic-based placement puzzle in which the objective is to fill the 9 by 9 grid so that each column, row, and each of the nine 3 by 3 boxes contains the digits 1 through 9. The puzzle starts off with a partially completed grid allowing for only one solution.
Tali is like poker, only with dice and no money. The objective is to create the best hand by rolling the five dice three times in which your two re-rolls may include any or all of the dice.
Tetravex is a puzzle where the pieces must be positioned so that the same numbers are touching each other. The game is timed and stored in a system-wide scoreboard.