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: or, maybe, [http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Charly Charly]? --[[User:Fasten|Fasten]] 14:07, 16 January 2007 (EST)
: or, maybe, [http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Charly Charly]? --[[User:Fasten|Fasten]] 14:07, 16 January 2007 (EST)


== Game review ==


How about something like that? --[[User:Fasten|Fasten]] 13:52, 16 January 2007 (EST)

=== A - G ===

{| border="1" width="100%"
|| Game || License || Comments || Local page
|-
|| [http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Blinkensisters%20-%20%20Hunt%20for%20the%20Lost%20Pixels Blinkensisters - Hunt for the Lost Pixels]
|| GPL || || [[Games/Blinkensisters]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Childsplay Childsplay]
|| GPL || || [[Games/Childsplay]]
|-
||<s>[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Cosmic%20Assault Cosmic Assault]</s>
|| ? || Same author works on [http://nimitz.net/puzzler/ The Puzzler]
|-
||<s>[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Cultivation Cultivation]</s>
|| Public Domain [http://sourceforge.net/projects/cultivation] || too slow ||
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?dialogquiz dialogquiz]
|| GPL || || [[Games/dialogquiz]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Enigma Enigma]
|| GPL [https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/enigma] || || [[Games/Enigma]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Fish%20Fillets%20-%20Next%20Generation Fish Fillets - Next Generation]
|| GPL || || [[Games/Fish Fillets - Next Generation]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Fuzzy%20adventure Fuzzy adventure]
|| GPL [https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuzzyadventure/] || || [[Games/Fuzzy adventure]]
|-
|| [http://www.happypenguin.org/show?GCompris GCompris]
|| GPL || || [[GCompris]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Goody%20The%20Remake Goody The Remake]
|| unknown || || [[Games/Goody The Remake]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?glChess glChess]
|| GPL [http://sourceforge.net/projects/glchess] || OpenGL is optional || [[Games/glChess]]
|-
|}

=== H - N ===

{| border="1" width="100%"
|-
|| Game || License || Comments || Local page
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Help%20Hannah%27s%20Horse Help Hannah's Horse]
|| GPL || || [[Games/Help Hannah's Horse]]
|-
|[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Infon%20Battle%20Arena Infon Battle Arena]
|| GPL || Programming game: "Program your creatures using the programming language lua." || [[Games/Infon Battle Arena]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Nuts%20%26%20Scrap Nuts &amp; Scrap]
|| shareware || || [[Games/Nuts &amp; Scrap]]
|-
|}

=== O - U ===

{| border="1" width="100%"
|-
|| Game || License || Comments || Local page
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Pyscrabble Pyscrabble]
|| GPL [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyscrabble] || || [[Games/Pyscrabble]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Rigs%20of%20Rods Rigs of Rods]
|| free, unknown license || || [[Games/Rigs of Rods]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Snowballz Snowballz]
|| LGPL || || [[Games/Snowballz]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Super%20Mario%20Clone%20FX Super Mario Clone FX]
|| GPL [http://sourceforge.net/projects/smclone/] || || [[Games/Super Mario Clone FX]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Super%20Mario%20War Super Mario War]
|| unknown || The game uses artwork and sounds from Nintendo games. We hope that this noncommercial fangame qualifies as fair use work. We just wanted to create this game to show how much we adore Nintendo's characters and games. || [[Games/Super Mario War]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?SuperTux SuperTux]
|| GPL || GPL according to download but with issues [http://supertux.lethargik.org/wiki/DataFiles] || [[Games/SuperTux]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Tuxlearnnotes Tuxlearnnotes]
|| GPL [http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxlearnnotes] || || [[Games/Tuxlearnnotes]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?TuxMathScrabble TuxMathScrabble]
|| OSI || || [[Games/TuxMathScrabble]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?TuxTyping TuxTyping]
|| GPL [http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxtype] || || [[Games/TuxTyping]]
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?TuxWordSmith TuxWordSmith]
|| OSI || || [[Games/TuxWordSmith]]
|-
|}

=== V - Z ===

{| border="1" width="100%"
|| Game || License || Comments || Local page
|-
||[http://www.happypenguin.org/show?XBlast XBlast]
|| GPL [http://sourceforge.net/projects/xblast/] || Shouldn't be included unless the keyboard is very robust or a [[Game controller]] is available so the child can break that instead. || [[Games/XBlast]]
|-
|}

=== External links ===

* Categories at happypenguin.org: [http://www.happypenguin.org/list?sort=category&search=kids kids], [http://www.happypenguin.org/list?sort=category&search=board board games], [http://www.happypenguin.org/list?sort=category&search=puzzle puzzle], [http://www.happypenguin.org/list?sort=category&search=simulation simulation], [http://www.happypenguin.org/list?sort=category&search=strategy strategy], [http://www.happypenguin.org/list?sort=category&search=text+adv interactive fiction], ...


== Exploring the Mesh ==
== Exploring the Mesh ==

Revision as of 20:29, 17 January 2007

Pingus

Would pingus run on the laptop? I imagine the game trains logical thought (to a degree) and is interesting enough to get children to play with it for a longer time. (at least that's what I did when I got Lemmings I for the Amiga) --Fasten 09:32, 16 January 2007 (EST)

or, maybe, Charly? --Fasten 14:07, 16 January 2007 (EST)


Exploring the Mesh

Having fun is great, but what are the chances that any of these games actually could exploit the share-aspect of the OLPC? Ok, some of these games I presume (haven't really checked the list, sorry :) will be 'network games' - that basically pitch one player against another or others... lots of fun, I agree, but. I remember a game (The Incredible Machine, iirc) that were lots of puzzles in 2-D that could lend itself to be more collaborative. Does anybody know games of that sort? Or where collaborating and sharing are more the spirit of the game? --Xavi 12:58, 17 January 2007 (EST)

I already made a selection of games that, at least at first glance, seemed more suitable than the average game. Is there a list somewhere what games will be included in the main distribution? --Fasten 14:13, 17 January 2007 (EST)
There is nothing wrong with competitive games, they can also be quite motivating. I don't know what share-aspect you mean. No matter if the games are collaborative or competitive in nature the pedagogical aspects might be interesting so any accompanying documentation can recommend to educators what games are useful for what age group and what type of education. Happypenguin.org doesn't state that so it might be useful to give every program a page here to discuss topics like this. --Fasten 14:13, 17 January 2007 (EST)
It might be nice to have network games use the Presence Service DBus API to negotiate network games, if that's what you mean by "Exploring the Mesh". --Fasten 14:13, 17 January 2007 (EST)