First make sure you have the needed devel libs available
#> apt-get install libfreetype6-dev \
mesag-dev \
libsdl1.2-dev \
libsdl1.2debian-arts \
libsdl-mixer1.2-dev
Make sure direct rendering is still enabled after installing the libs.
Get the game from http://scourge.sourceforge.net/ and unpack it
$> wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/scourge/scourge-0.6.tar.gz $> tar -xzvf scourge-0.6.tar.gz
Do configure and build it
$> cd scourge-0.6 $> ./configure $> make
Test it:
$> ./src/scourge