About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 116. Chapters: Armagetron Advanced, Arx Fatalis, AssaultCube Reloaded, Black Shades, Bos Wars, C-Dogs, C-evo, Crossfire (computer game), Cube (video game), Cube 2: Sauerbraten, Danger from the Deep, Darwinbots, DeFRaG, Drugwars, Dust Racing 2D, Egoboo (video game), Enigma (video game), Eternal Lands, FlightGear, FooBillard, Freedoom, Frets on Fire, Frogatto & Friends, Frozen Bubble, Gbrainy, GGZ Gaming Zone, Glest, Globulation 2, GLtron, GNOME Games, Gnomine, GNUbik, GNU Go, Hackvision, Hedgewars, HoverRace, Jogre, Journey to Rooted Hold, Lasertank, Lincity, Liquid War, List of open-source video games, Maelstrom (1992 video game), Mari0, MegaGlest, Meritous, Micropolis (video game), Multi Theft Auto, Myst Online: Uru Live, Narcissu, Netrek, Neverball, Nexuiz, Noble Ape, Oolite (video game), OpenArena, OpenAstroMenace, OpenBVE, OpenCity, OpenTTD, Open source video game, Overgod, Pandora (console), Pingus, Pirasea, PlayPower, PokerTH, PySol, RARS, Rigs of Rods, Robotfindskitten, RoboWar, Scorched 3D, Simutrans, Slingshot (video game), Smokin' Guns, SolarWolf, Solipsis, Sopwith (video game), Speed Dreams, StepMania, Stratagus, Teeworlds, The Battle for Wesnoth, TORCS, Tux, of Math Command, TuxMathScrabble, TuxWordSmith, Tux Racer, Tyrian (video game), UFO: Alien Invasion, UltraStar, Unknown Horizons, Uzebox, Vega Strike, Warmux, Widelands, WorldForge, X-Moto, XBill, Xonotic, XPilot, XShogi, Zero-K. Excerpt: Speed Dreams, often shortened to SD and formerly known as Torcs-NG, is a free and open source 3D racing video game for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Haiku. Started in 2008 as a fork of the racing car simulator TORCS, it is mainly written in C++ and released under GPL v2+ and Free Art License, the most recent release being version 2.0 of April 2012. The development of an accurate driving behaviour, with different physics engines available, sets the project among the few open source racing simulation codebases. Speed Dreams can be played with a variety of input devices, including keyboards, mouses, joypads, joysticks, racing wheels and pedals. Speed Dreams features several different racing modes; while some offer greater customization than others, most generally try to reproduce real types of races. Complex events, such as various categories of championships or endurance races, are also available. Because racing modes are defined by plain-text configuration files, custom ones can be freely created. In this context the most relevant change since TORCS introduced in Speed Dreams 2.0 is the "Career" mode: here the player can compete with different car classes, during multiple seasons, on randomly selected tracks and against balanced random opponents, earning points in championship rankings. Within practice mode, since version 1.4.0, it is possible to run robot races in the "results-only" mode, that is, ignoring the graphics display of the race; this allows the simulation to be run at a speed limited only by the computing power available, and is mostly used by robot developers. For the same purpose version 2.0 provides also a text-only mode: the race is run without graphics no hardware acceleration being required and the results are displayed through a command-line interface. Speed Dreams 2.0 introduced the simulation of a real sky dome, along with customizable weather conditions: the user can choose the time of day, the cloud cover and the intensity of rainfall to
