Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Games
    1. Call of Duty
    2. Unreal Tournament 2004
    3. Enemy Territory
    4. xpilot
    5. Quake 3
    6. Legend of the Green Dragon
    7. Tetrinet
    8. BNetD

Introduction

Please add any info you have, or suggestions for servers that you'd like to see us running. I've suggested that we initially try to use say a couple of modern ish CPU intensive games and perhaps a few more which are text based or similar. I'm quite keen on seeing a page showing current usage of the various games etc, and possibly the stats that can be generated.

Games

Call of Duty

There appears to be very little information about it on the website, but it seems that the Linux binary is now totally inclusive (and it does not require a license - which I can provide if needed anyway) and free to use.

http://www.callofduty.com/patch/

See the bottom "patch" (Call of Duty\u2122 Linux Multiplayer Server Code Version 1.5). This game only requires installation and configuration via a dedicated.cfg file. I ran a server like this on the SBS last year - not too difficult to do.

I vote this is something we try to get working straight away.

It would require one administrator to look after the game.

Unreal Tournament 2004

Unreal Tournament 2004 shipped with full native Linux support so this is a good game to support. There is a free to use package here:

http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=4717

CD-key generator (legal - Atari provide the generator)

http://www.unrealtournament.com/news/view.php?id=1491

We'd not need the CD key, however.

Enemy Territory

First-person shooter - world war two setting.

Totally free to use and run, clients free to use on Linux and Windows:

http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/features/articles/pw_faq_et.shtml

http://games.activision.com/games/wolfenstein/

http://www.3dgamers.com/games/wolfensteinet/downloads/

xpilot

http://www.xpilot.org

Free 2D space game (open source...)

Debian packages - so very easy to setup and install.

Quake 3

This is a possibility - however it may be that the game isn't as popular as it used to be. It is well supported and free to run as a dedicated server.

Legend of the Green Dragon

PHP (I think?) and MySQL role-playing game. This would be good as an internal Compsoc service... :) Maybe we can actually have something sitting on compsoc1's apache server, and some content on http://compsoc.kent.ac.uk.

http://lotgd.net/

Tetrinet

Multi-player tetris...

http://www.tetrinet.org/

BNetD

Questionable Legality, its nothing short of a Battle.net server.