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Flightgear

Flightgear reminded me of a simulation I used to play during the heydays of DOS. You'd be surprised what game developers are up to these days. You'd think Electronic Arts would actually look into these boys {+ gals} who are talented and passionate about their work, and make them an offer non? Well.. If you happen to be an Angel, you might want to give them a turbo booster of a chance and do something more by offering this simulation a step ahead.

The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application.

Flightgear is available for Windows, Linux, OSX, BSD & ... Drop by and get a copy and have it installed. You'd be surprised at the simplay!

Racer

Racer is not a game.

It is a Racing Car simulation. Now, I'm a bit confused, but I'm sure my sister-in-law can explain the edge of Automative engineering. An opensource program, this software helps future automative engineers, design cars and tracks using real car physics to get a realistic feeling. Now you know how this gets going when you opt to get one of racing games installed in your system.

Racer is available for Windows, Linux & OSX. Click here to download the sim, and start building your own!

Sauerbraten

Soon to be an RPG game Sauerbraten {a.k.a. Cube 2} is something you might want to consider downloading and installing in your system. Its graphics are second to none to some of the best commercial games out there, and its source code is amazingly opensource. If you think most developers are tied to big-time companies and you're a student game developer, you might want to check out the code, and learn something from it. You might want to consider working on this as the engine behind this awesome game is seamless and world editing becomes possible where appropriate to the concept.