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[#]: subject: "My favorite casual games to play on Linux"
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[#]: via: "https://opensource.com/article/22/2/casual-gaming-linux-kde"
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[#]: author: "Seth Kenlon https://opensource.com/users/seth"
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[#]: collector: "lujun9972"
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[#]: translator: "perfiffer"
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My favorite casual games to play on Linux
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Play a video game on Linux while your open source code compiles.
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![Gaming with penguin pawns][1]
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I love a good game that you can immerse yourself in for hours, but I don't always have the luxury of ignoring daily tasks to disappear into a video game. Still, I do love a fun challenge from time to time, and two of my favourite applications to launch when my computer gets busy doing something that I need to wait on are games from the KDE Games package: **KBlocks** and **Kolf**.
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### KBlocks
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My favorite video game involves blocks falling from the sky, and ideally landing in rows which magically disappear when blocks are contiguous. KBlocks is one implementation of that format, and it's a good one. It's got responsive block rotation with **Left** and **Right Arrow**, adjustable faster fall with the **Down Arrow**, instant fall with **Spacebar**, There are a few different levels of difficulty to control how quickly blocks fall.
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![KBlocks][2]
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(Seth Kenlon, [CC BY-SA 4.0][3])
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The default theme of KBlocks is ancient Egyptian, which has no bearing on gameplay but can be pleasant for Egyptophiles. You can change the theme, though, in the **Configure KBlocks** menu item. An alternate theme called **Plasma** is included, or you can click on **Get New Themes** button and download user-contributor themes.
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![KBlocks Invaders by José Jorge][4]
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(Seth Kenlon, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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The theme is purely aesthetic, but for the artistic type, creating a theme for a casual game could be a fun way to contribute to an open source project.
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#### A gateway game to the KDE Plasma Desktop
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I'll admit, KBlocks is difficult for me to put down. In fact, it was my desire to play games during meetings that led me to find the `M-x tetris` command in Emacs, which in turn caused me to discover, and fall in love with, Linux in the first place. There's great power in this game. Maybe KBlocks will be the way you discover the KDE Plasma Desktop?
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### Kolf
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I don't like golf in real life, but on the computer miniature golf is a pleasantly frustrating mix of simulated physics and fun level design. With Kolf, the goal is as you'd expect: hit a golf ball into a hole. The destination is, of course, always around a corner, over a hill, past a pond, or behind a wall, so it's your goal to calculate ball speed, friction, incline, and trajectory with such perfection that you get the ball home in as few hits as possible.
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![Miniature golf][5]
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(Seth Kenlon, [CC BY-SA 4.0][3])
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It's never as easy as it looks, and I don't think it ever gets old to watch the golf ball bounce off of objects and roll down hills that you never intended for it to go near.
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#### Designing your own course
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The fun really begins when you try your hand at designing your own miniature golf course. Yes, Kolf has a level editor, in which you can build walls, place ponds and hills and sandtraps, add pinball-style bumbers, and more.
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![Kolf editor][6]
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(Seth Kenlon, [CC BY-SA 4.0][3])
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Because Kolf can be a multi-player game, it's especially fun to give each player five minutes to design a level, and then see who does best at whose level.
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### Linux KDE games
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These aren't by any means the only two games from the KDE project. There are many others, including card games, tile games, and arcade games. The nice thing about the KDE Games package is that they contain games you're happy to walk away from at a moment's notice, and they only require about a fourth of your attention. I use these to kill time while compiling code. Sometimes I don't get a full game in, but I always appreciate the subtle shift in mental gears.
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via: https://opensource.com/article/22/2/casual-gaming-linux-kde
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作者：[Seth Kenlon][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID)
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本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出
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[a]: https://opensource.com/users/seth
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-full-size/public/lead-images/gaming_grid_penguin.png?itok=7Fv83mHR (Gaming with penguin pawns)
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[2]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/kblocks.jpg (KBlocks)
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[3]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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[4]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/kblocks-invaders.jpg (KBlocks Invaders by José Jorge)
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[5]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/kolf.jpg (Miniature golf)
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[6]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/kolf-edit.jpg (Kolf editor)
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