Filed under: Fun, Games, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Symbian, Open Source, Time-Wasters
Frozen Bubble - Today's Time Waster
by Chris Brentano Jan 13th 2007
Frozen Bubble is a free/open source Puzzle Bobble/Bust-a-Move style game for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. The game play concept is very simple: Match colored balls in the playing area with the piece in play to remove them from the board. Once the board has been cleared you advance to the next level, where a different arrangement of playing pieces increases the challenge. If you don't move fast enough, the playing field starts to shrink and push pieces towards the end of the board.For Linux users, you have a leg up on your Windows and Mac counterparts - version 2.0 features multiplayer LAN/Internet matches. But until v2.0 has been ported, v1.0 is available for Mac OS X, Windows, Series 60 and there's even Java applet and Flash versions available.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
