[TriLUG] Gaming talk

[Roy Vestal]

Just a note about Savage, excellent game.

It's sorta like freeciv mixed with a first person shooter. There are 2
teams, the humans and the savages. You join one of the 2 teams. You have a
time limit to destroy the other ones stronghold/lair (respectively). One
person is the "commander" and uses a screen similar to what you would see in
freeciv to create weapon factories, research centers, mine gold/stone with
workers, and give orders to the team (like "protect this unit", "attack this
position" and such). The rest of the team are in a first person shooter
style with a HUD and controls and actually try to complete the
missions/orders given them.

As a benefit, we can purchase the game as William stated, natively by
downloading the ISO and purchasing a Linux CD key.

Lee, I think you would and Chris K. would definitely like it.  Check out the
screenshots if you can.

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From: "William R. Gomeringer" <pihlopase at pihlopase.net>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Gaming talk


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The Linux version is in the same box, it does say Linux on the side though.
Your other choice would to be to purchase a key online and download the ISO,
that's what I did. Then you can tell them you are buying the Linux version.

William

On Friday 12 March 2004 08:51 am, elfick wrote:
> Is the linux version in its own box or is it in the box with the windows
> version?
> If it was in its own box I'd be picking up a copy at lunch, even if it
> was the worst game ever, just to show my support for linux gaming.
>
> :-)
>
> William R. Gomeringer wrote:
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> >I just wanted to say that I thouroughly enjoyed the gaming talk last
> > night, since it's something I can really relate to :) And to mention
> > another game that I forgot about last night. Savage: Battle for Newerth
> > is a great 3D accelerated game with beautiful graphics that combines RTS
> > with FPS. They have a native Linux version, and the Linux version comes
> > in box, they have it at Best Buy. Here is the site address:
> >
> >http://www.s2games.com/
> >
> >Thanks again for a great talk and I would like Chris to help me build one
> > of those cool arcade controller boxes :-P
> >
> >William
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