Top 3: Of the best car games for linux

The Growth of the Video Game Industry in linux is very accelerated, numerous companies in the video game area have begun to invest so that their games can also be enjoyed by the immense number of users in the Linux world. Likewise, the community has made numerous advances in the creation of free and open source software, one of the video game roles where the most progress has been made is in car games. Many consider that in linux we will mainly find the typical parking games, but it is not like that, in the Top 3 of the best car games for Linux you will meet the car games that currently offer the highest performance and fun.

• VDrift: VDrift is an open source, multi-platform racing game that aims to simulate driving a car at full speed. It has a complete game engine that is based on Vamos which makes the driving feel very real. In the latest versions the visual theme has been greatly improved. Vdrift It is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2, which allows an extended use of it. Among the many features of the game are:
  • Physical simulation of driving
  • Scenarios based on the most famous real tracks.
  • Vehicles designed based on real cars.
  • Competition between players
  • Mouse / joystick / gamepad / wheels / keyboard stand

  To install Vdrift on ubuntu and similar distro, just type the following commands in the console:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:archive.gedeb.net;
sudo apt-get update;
sudo apt-get install -y vdrift;

The rest of the distro can get VDrift from this

repository

and enjoy.

• The Open Racing Car Simulator (TORCS): One of the racing simulators that I liked the most is TORCS, it is multi-platform, open source, highly portable, it runs on 32 and 64 bit architecture, it is very fun to be used as a typical racing game but it can also be used to simulate automobile investigations. The TORCS source code is licensed under the GPL ("Open Source.") Its creators Eric Espié and Christophe Guionneau in company with several other programmers have managed to make TORCS have a variety of cars, tracks and forms of games. In addition, TORC is compatible with almost all game controls on the market, in addition to that, handling with the keyboard and mouse is very easy.

  The game has great graphics with bright lighting, smoke, tire marks and brake discs. The simulation has a simple model of damage and collisions, it has aerodynamic appearances (ground effect, ailerons) among other characteristics. TORCS allows multiple forms of racing ranging from simple practice sessions to complex championships. You can also enjoy racing against your friends in split screen mode with up to four players. The TORCS team is working on developing an online racing mode. To install TORCS on our Linux distro we must:

  1. Check the dependencies
  2. Download the source code
  3. Unzip the package using the command  tar xfvj torcs-1.3.6.tar.bz2.
  4. Run the following commands:
     $ cd torcs-1.3.6
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
$ make datainstall

     Default installation directories:
     • / usr / local / bin
     • / usr / local / lib / torcs
     • / usr / local / share / games / torcs
  5. Run TORCS from the console torcs 
• Speed ​​dreams: Another game that you can enjoy on Linux is Speed ​​Dreams, an open source 3D racing simulation game with GPL license. Speed ​​Dreams has several improvements in the visual field, effects and sensitive movements, it also has sensors to verify precise driving.Speed ​​Dreams can be played with a variety of input devices, including keyboards, mice, joypads, joysticks, racing wheels, and pedals.

   Among the main features of Speed ​​Dreams we have:

1. Various game modes. (Race, Championship, Training, among others).
2. Weather and time effects (The User can decide the time and weather they want the race to take place and the interface will adapt to the given configuration). Said parameterization also affects the physics and adhesion of the cars.
3. Various physical engines. (It allows the execution of modules developed in c ++ with which you can simulate different configurations of the car machine)
4. Damage and Collision Calculation.
5. Excellent audio system.
6. Pit stops
7. Multiplayer
8. Sanctions system for drivers.

To install Speed ​​Dreams we must execute the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu trusty-getdeb games";

wget -q -OR- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update;
sudo apt-get install speed-dreams;