[mdlug] Suggestions for games for an elderly parent?

[Mark Kimsal]

World of Warcraft works very well under Wine.

Westnoth is a fun turn-based strategy with medieval themes (like fire emblem 
series). 

I have a simple puzzle game written in pygame, but it won't be finished by 
Sunday.  

As mentioned previously, freeciv is good, there's also freecol.

SMC (secret maryo chronicles) is a high-quality SNES-era Mario copy.

SuperTuxKart is classic linux game.

Maybe just plunking money down for Cedega would be good as well.

If you're looking for commercial games, I would browse the Cedega games 
database (http://www.cedega.com/gamesdb/) or the wine app database 
(http://appdb.winehq.org/).  Although there are commercial games with native 
linux support (i.e. runs w/o wine) they tend to be of the FPS/gore genre.

Lastly, I found Empire Earth 3 on cedega's app db.  I cannot vouch for it, 
I've never played it, but it seems to be a supported, high-quality, 
commercial game in the RTS genre.

Everyone else's recommendations are also very good: rail road tycoon, 
starcraft, sim city, NWN...

I couldn't really tell if you wanted to put money down for commercial games, 
or if the birthday present would be just setting up and installing some FOSS 
games.  But, commercial games are best done with Cedega, second best-ly done 
with Wine.


On Tuesday 20 January 09, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> My dad has asked me for some computer games for his birthday... this
> Sunday. (Oy.)
>
>  He's intelligent and has a sense of humor, but has limited computer
> gaming experience and tends to learn 'computer things' by rote. My
> parents run Ubuntu Linux, so any games I got for them would have to be
> Linux-based or run well under Wine. He's healthy but doesn't have the
> twitch reflexes (or the interest in violence and gore) of the typical
> teenager, so FPS games aren't going to fly.
>
>  He's enjoyed Peggle and a few Flash games. I'm thinking an RTS or a
> turn-based strategy game might work. A driving simulator with a
> force-feedback steering wheel might work, given that it ran well under
> Wine or had a native Linux version.
>
>  So... any suggestions, or genres I haven't come up with?
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                               (313) 227-2317
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