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SDL-Ball

Brick-breaking game with pretty graphics.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

SDL-Ball is an arcade game, available on Linux.

Gameplay elements described in its Flathub listing: leaderboards, level editor, crafting and mod support.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “SDL-Ball is a DX-Ball/Breakout clone.” — SourceForge, 10 November 2026
  • “Highscores” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Easy to use level editor.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Crafting of items from raw materials” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “A simple modding API that supports many additions and modifications to the game” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

SDL-Ball is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Your mission: To smash your way through a series of progressively harder and more tricky levels. Your tools: Ultrakinetic titanium balls and your trusty Gruntmazter-3000-Paddle edition. Features: 50 levels OpenGL eye candy Lots of powerups and powerdowns Powerup Shop - You get special coins for collecting powerups, you can spend them on more powerups. Highscores Sound Easy to use level editor. Themes - Selectable from options menu. Controllable with Mouse/Keyboard/Joystick and WiiMote. Save and Load games Cool Introscreen Screenshot function Crafting of items from raw materials Fast and able to run on old and slow hardware A simple modding API that supports many additions and modifications to the game Multiplayer support via servers hosted by users Beautiful lightning-fast map generator

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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