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This is a list of the Tasks Debian Games is made of:

Adventure - Debian Games adventure games

 This metapackage will install adventure games and interpreter.

Arcade - Debian Games arcade games

This metapackage will install arcade games suitable, in the opinion of the contributors to the Debian Games project, for children of all ages. Mastering most of these games requires dexterity and cognitive skills usually developed only in the older children (around ages 5 to 8). But the youngest children may enjoy watching older players, or just poking randomly at the controls, depending on the game.

Games-card - Debian Games Card Games

A collection of card games, for the time being just solitaire, which are probably more suited to older children than young, although the "memory" type games in pysol may appeal to children just entering grade school.

Games-gl - Debian Games 3D Games (hardware acceleration required)

These games all use OpenGL libraries. They will not work without decent 3D graphics cards providing hardware-accelerated OpenGL.

While armagetron and gltron are different interpretations of the game depicted in the classic 3D-animated movie "Tron", Tux Racer is an all-original made-for-Linux 3D racing game. Unlike the standard blood-and-guts fare in the 3D games universe, all of these games are suitable for children.

Games-net - Debian Games Network Games

While XPilot has a broad international community of players (mostly on high-bandwidth connections) it can be enjoyed on a home network as well. XBlast, on the other hand, achieves networking using the X protocol, so it is best suited to a local network.

Puzzle - Debian Games Puzzles

Some puzzle-type games, from the more arcade-like and frozen-bubble to xjig (a jigsaw puzzle program), to lmemory (based on the classic "memory" card game). This sampling of packages was done in the hope that it will appeal to child and adult alike.

Roguelike - Debian Games Roguelike Games

Roguelike games are named after their common ancestor, Rogue. They are tactical games, with varying degress of strategy and/or role-playing, and usually single-player, usually involving one or more dungeons to explore. Their distinguishing feature is permadeath, i.e. no reloading from your last save. Otherwise, there is huge variation in setting, mechanics and flavour.

Rpg - Debian Games role-playing games

 This metapackage will install role-playing games.

Simulation - Debian Games Simulations

 This metapackage will install simulation games.

Games-text - Debian Games Text Games

The principal virtue of these games is their simplicity. They will run on any hardware, and some of them are simple enough to control so that very young children can enjoy them (e.g. snake)

Toys - Debian Games desktop toys

This metapackage will install desktop toys suitable for children. The collection contains some packages which might enjoy children and make them love their computer.