An Introduction to KDE Games

“For a long time KDE has come with an assortment of games.
Collectively, this suite of games is simply called “KDE Games”.
With the advent of KDE 4, all of the KDE games were given face
lifts and a standard set of features that make moving from game to
game a seamless exercise.

“The games are two dimensional and do not run inside of a
separate layer like SDL. Instead they run inside a normal KDE
window, utilizing the standard QT interface. Nevertheless, the
rendering of of the graphics is amazingly impressive because of the
use of SVG vector graphics. With SVG, the animations are smooth and
the images are scalable. You can play in a small window or maximize
it without losing any of its quality.

“There are seven categories of KDE games available: Arcade,
Board, Card, Dice, Logic, Strategy, and Toy. In most Linux
distributions, all of them come as part of the kdegames
meta-package. They are also available for Windows and Mac OS
X.”

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