Tenes Empanadas Graciela
Encyclopedia
Tenés Empanadas Graciela (short TEG) is a turn-based strategy
game distributed by several popular Linux distributions. The idea for this free and open source software
program came from the board game TEG
(based on the popular Risk game
but differs in many aspects of the rules).
In 1996 the Argentine
Ricardo riq Quesada started working at the game, discontinued it for a few years and brought life back into the project in early 2000. Some developers, graphic artists and translators joined the project located at SourceForge
's servers and made it a success.
Using a Server several players can fight each other for world domination and of course also chat together. Various maps are used as battle field and also several languages like Spanish
, German
, French
and Polish
are available.
There is also an Argentine online version of the game called WebTeg which allows users to play with just a web browser
.
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Turn-based strategy
A turn-based strategy game is a strategy game where players take turns when playing...
game distributed by several popular Linux distributions. The idea for this free and open source software
Free and open source software
Free and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...
program came from the board game TEG
TEG (board game)
TEG is an Argentine Risk-based board wargame published in 1976. The name is an acronym of Tactica Y Estrategia para la guerra., Spanish for Tactics and Strategy for War.-Gameplay:...
(based on the popular Risk game
Risk (game)
Risk is a strategic board game, produced by Parker Brothers . It was invented by French film director Albert Lamorisse and originally released in 1957 as La Conquête du Monde in France. Risk is a turn-based game for two to six players...
but differs in many aspects of the rules).
In 1996 the Argentine
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
Ricardo riq Quesada started working at the game, discontinued it for a few years and brought life back into the project in early 2000. Some developers, graphic artists and translators joined the project located at SourceForge
SourceForge
SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications .While originally itself...
's servers and made it a success.
Using a Server several players can fight each other for world domination and of course also chat together. Various maps are used as battle field and also several languages like Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
and Polish
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
are available.
There is also an Argentine online version of the game called WebTeg which allows users to play with just a web browser
Web browser
A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...
.
Distributions
The game is widely distributed by several GNU/Linux distributions and ported to other Operating SystemOperating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
s:
- UbuntuUbuntu (operating system)Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=teg&searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all§ion=all - DebianDebianDebian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential...
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=teg&searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all§ion=all - Gentoo LinuxGentoo LinuxGentoo Linux is a computer operating system built on top of the Linux kernel and based on the Portage package management system. It is distributed as free and open source software. Unlike a conventional software distribution, the user compiles the source code locally according to their chosen...
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/games-board/teg/ - Port to Mac http://teg.darwinports.com/
External links
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/teg/ - TEG itself
- Gagné, Marcel, (2002), "Networking for Pleasure" Linux JournalLinux JournalLinux Journal is a monthly technology magazine published by Belltown Media, Inc. of Houston, Texas. The magazine focuses specifically on Linux, allowing the content to be a highly specialized source of information for open source enthusiasts.-History:...
- Greve, Georg CF, (2002), "Brave GNU World", Linux MagazineLinux MagazineLinux Magazine is a European professional journal. It addresses itself to readers who work professionally with operating systems based around the Linux kernel. Linux Magazine is published by Linux New Media AG and was born after the great success of Linux-Magazin...
, Issue 22. - Web TEG