[ Thanks to An
Anonymous Reader for this link. ]
“Believe it or not, GNU/Linux is already an amazing
game platform. You might find this statement entirely implausible
or rather incredulous but I really mean it. I didn’t know this
until last evening when I was desperately looking for an open
source alternative for the popular game “Guitar Hero”. Honestly, I
wasn’t expecting much, in fact, I was preparing myself for a total
flop, or yet another monotonous copycat of GH. Oh boy… how
wrong was I. Not only did I found the sort of game I was looking
for, but also, I stumbled upon some other cool open source music
games that totally changed my perception about open source games.
But don’t take my words for it, just go and search for a very
specific genre of games. I assure you that eventually you will find
some quality open source alternatives. I do believe some of these
games can be competent competitors to their commercial counterparts
if they get more attention from the community.“For this reason, I’ve decided to compile a list of music games
that are available for GNU/Linux. Since I personally am a very
recent convert to the marvels of open source gaming I don’t claim
that these are all the music games that are available for the
platform. However, I think they are a nice start for people new to
the whole idea. Also, I found most of these games to be very modest
in hardware requirement. As a matter of fact, I’ve played all of
them on Hetty (my EeePC netbook) without a gliche”