One of my favorite Open source games to play on my Ubuntu box is World of Padman, it's a FPS (first person shooter) that began it's life as a little Quake3 mod, and about a year prior to this post took to the wing as it's own stand alone game. It's easy to install, easy to learn, fun to play, and there's always a host of running servers and new maps and mods. You're a little blue cracked out smurf-like critter shooting your bubble-gum machine-gun, water cannon, and water-balloon bombs (among others) at your opponents. What else could you ask for?

Well, trusting the good judgment of my favorite game development team, I'm going to echo the announcement to the world about yet another Open Source Quake3 mod gone all rogue and stand-alone: Smoking Guns!. It's a wild west ho-down of mayhem and madness that comes directly endorsed by the Pad World crew. Check out this snappy preview (available on my site) :

Totally impressed, I know. So, go get it from one of the mirrors on the Smokin' Guns website, here, or grab my torrent file from this post, also available at the Pirate Bay and seed the daylights out of this baby! And follow these instructions for Ubuntu 8.10:

• Unzip it in your home folder
• Rename the base folder from "Smokin' Guns" to "SmokinGuns" as the engine will always look for that folder as installed game path.
• in a terminal type cd /home/YOUR_USER_NAME/SmokinGuns
• in a terminal type chmod +x smokinguns.x86
• create a menu item witch points at /home/YOUR_USER_NAME/SmokinGuns/smokinguns.x86
• make sure you have th openAL api sudo apt-get install libopenal1
  and make some symlinks sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0

• Play the game!

Now, if you run into problems, I recommend taking advantage of the forums over at the Smokin' Guns website.

Game on!

Got any great games to run on your Ubuntu box you just need to let the world know about? Let me know about it!