More cross-platform, open source 3D games today. Today, on spooky Friday the 13th, I wanted to share one of my favorite simple pleasures.

Remember when you saw Tron as a kid and spend the next 3 years on the little metal dolphin with the handlebars at the local playground pretending it was a light cycle? Do you remember your heart sinking through your toes playing the totally limp-dicked Tron arcade game light cycle mode? The dissonance! The terrible, terrible dissonance! How could it look this good:

...and be that crappy when simulated?!?

Well, those days are over. Mac, PC, Linux - we're all part of the same happy family now, because any and all of us can fire up the grid and play GLTron!

The game is amazing - the visuals are perfect (and skinnable!), the sounds are top-notch, the experience is über-fun, and you can very workably play 4-players locally on the same machine (it's only 3 keys to control it). Plus, there's a whole slew of options to customize the experience to match what you wanted so badly as a kid. It's far from new, but I've used it as a nice 10-minute break since grad school (been playing it off and on for almost 4 years!), and it's still super fun.

So download the damn thing, and get to time killin'! You've only got 7 hours to go till the weekend! You can do it!