Operation Nautak
Version: Git Web: http://bit.ly/OperationNautak
“Operation Nautak is a fully featured strategy game where you defend bases against AI.”
Tower defence games are very popular on mobile devices, but although some proprietary titles do exist for the Linux desktop, finding a decent (and playable) open source game took us a little longer.
OperationNautak is a fully featured strategy game where you defend military bases against AI. The plot is classic sci-fi; there are 25 cities throughout the world where alien invasions have taken place. Within each location, you need to destroy the alien base while preventing them from taking over your base camp.
During the game, you need to place solar plants that generate energy, which is a sort of currency for you to buy attacking soldiers and missile launchers for defence. If you’ve ever played tower defence game before you probably have an idea that the right balance is required: a stronger unit is more efficient than several weaker ones, so you need to concentrate your resources and not split them.
The aliens also position solar plants, buy units and build missile launchers, and after a while you’ll find it hard to break their resistance without a solid strategy. A simple approach can do the trick— send a crowd of cheaper cannon fodder down one path and while the enemy’s guns destroy them, send a group of highly-trained gunmen on the neighbouring route. Callous it might be, but the end in this case justifies the means. The game has been in development since 2012, but it still receives frequent commits. It has been distributed as a source tree of the Adobe Air 2 package, which is a very rare type of Linux app. To build it from source, you’ll need a 32-bit only Adobe Air SDK and some patience to first get it to work and then package the game with $ adt . You can also play online at http://bit. ly/2jKTA6q.