What are the licensing terms of your software?

All source code found on this site is available under the GNU General Public License (often referred to as the GPL). You can obtain a copy of the license by clicking here.

Please make sure you are aware of the terms of this license before installing or running our software. Please also note that game assets are Non Free and should not be included as part of a Linux distribution or made available in any repositories.

Why hasn't game X been updated?

Most games on this site are no longer maintained.

Will there be anymore updates to game X? It would be great to add these features...

No, sorry.

Your game should play more like this one...

Then it won't be the game we set out to make. If you wish to play a certain type of game you should either buy it, develop it yourself (like we do!!) or tweak our code.

Which browser is this site designed for?

This site is designed to be used with any browser that supports CSS, Javascript and HTML. It should function correctly in all modern web browsers. Even without CSS this site will still be usable. Pages on this site are designed for a minimum resolution of 800 x 600 in 16 bit color or greater.

Do you collect personal information?

We do not collect any personal information on this site.

How can I link to your screenshots?

You can link to the screenshots by using the page's Screenshots anchor tag. For example, if you wish to create a link to the screenshots for Metal Blob Solid, you can do so by creating a link to,

http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/blobWars.php#Screenshots

Please be aware that linking directly to the images will not work.

I've found a typo / factual error / page error...

Please email the Webmaster (address can be found on Contact page) with a description of the error.

How can I recompile the game under Linux?

Please ensure that you have all the required development libraries before you attempt to do this.

Here is an example of recompiling Project: Starfighter,

tar zxf starfighter.tar.gz
cd Starfighter-1.1
make
make install*

* - You will need to be root to perform this step.

Once you have done this, you can run the game simply by typing,

starfighter

into a terminal window. It is also possible create a desktop or menu icon to play the game**. To do this, create an icon / menu entry that executes "starfighter". You may need to refer to your desktop environment's documentation as to how to do this.

When recompiling I get lots of errors...

If you're fairly new to Linux and programming in general you may see the following when trying to recompile,

In file included from code/ai.cpp:1:
code/ai.h:4:21: SDL/SDL.h: No such file or directory
code/ai.h:5:27: SDL/SDL_image.h: No such file or directory
code/ai.h:6:27: SDL/SDL_mixer.h: No such file or directory

Most Linux users will have the appropriate SDL libraries installed on their system. However, if you do not have them you will need to download them from the SDL homepage (see above) or check your install CDs. Additional libraries may be required for other projects.