This is a fun gem that actually made me laugh out loud when I found out about it.
Have you ever gotten really mad at an application and just wanted to blast a huge hole in it? With blast that is exactly what you can do. Use your system's preferred package manager to install the blast package.
Now, when you get angry at an application, just hit Alt+F2 and type blast. Begin clicking away to shoot holes in the windows. Middle-click to "repair" the window, and right-click to exit. Beware, if you forget to repair the window before you exit blast, the changes will stick until you close the window.
It's about time for another FOSSwire game post and this time I'm going to be looking at Planet Penguin Racer.
PP Racer is actually a fork of a now-abandoned game, Tux Racer. You can still download the old Tux Racer, but the last news for it was back in 2001. For the newer levels and features, you'll probably want to play PP Racer.
PP Racer is, as the name suggest, a racing game. You control a penguin, who looks very much like Linux mascot Tux and you have to race down a hill of snow and ice. The main idea is that you need to collect as many herring as possible before you get to the end of the course. Naturally, there are obstacles like trees, big blocks of snow and ice and other things that will inevitably get in your way.
It's actually very addictive and great fun. Planet Penguin Racer is available for Linux and Windows and will need you to have set up 3D acceleration with a suitable driver before it will run at any decent speed. You can download it from the official wiki.
One of the great things about writing for FOSSwire is that you have a great excuse to try out all of the latest free and open source software games (and end up spending a couple of hours 'researching' each one).
I recently discovered a great game called X-Moto. It describes itself as:
X-Moto is a challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an all important role in the gameplay. You need to control your bike to its limit, if you want to have a chance finishing the more difficult of the challenges.
Basically, you have to drive your motocross bike across a landscape, completing jumps and trying not to fall off. The aim of the game is to pick up all the strawberries on the level, then to reach the flower to finish the level.
I'm not particularly good at it (I can only barely get past the first level), but it is great fun. Warning - if you need to be productive this weekend, don't download this game.
It's cross-platform and binaries are available for Windows, various Linux distributions and Mac OS X. You can obviously also get the source code.
I recommend that Linux users head to their software management program and do a search in that for xmoto, as that's probably the easiest way to download it and automatically get it installed and set up. Windows and Mac users, download an appropriate package from the site.
