Ubuntu Games: Purplemines

Do you love mines but your current game of mines just isn't colorful enough? Maybe you'd like it to be a bit more purple? Oh have I got a game for you!

Purplemines is a little minesweeper game that uses pygame. It is pretty much just classic minesweeper with some cool purple affects.

Sound like fun? Can download the source here. Like bitsnake just unzip and execute the game. There is also a .deb available but it is an older version (1.4 the latest is 1.6) but it will probably be just fine.

This little game is pretty fun in my opinion. And hey why not have yet another minesweeper game?

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