Games
3D Checkers 3D Checkers is an ordinary game of checkers rendered on a full 3-D playing board. The board can be dynamically rotated to see any view. Play against another human or the computer using the minimax algorithm. Works great on Windows 95 and NT (Jun 2003)
Airstrike - 2D dogfighting game Airstrike is a 2D dogfight game in the tradition of the Intellivision and Amiga games 'Biplanes' and 'BIP'. It features a robust physics engine and several other extensions of the original games. Linux and Windows. GPL (Dec 2002)
Alizarin Tetris - multiplayer network tetris game Alizarin Tetris is a Tetris-like game with a twist for Unix, Win32 and BeOS systems. Multi-player support, user-extensible color, shape and sound styles, can use TCP/IP networking and features a few different AI opponents. GPL (Sep 2001)
Arianne - multiplayer online roleplaying game Arianne is a free open source massive multiplayer online role playing game with offline support. Both 2-D and 3-D clients will be available. Clients available for Win32, BeOS, and Linux. (Jul 2000)
Briquolo - 3-D Breakout Game in OpenGL Briquolo is a Breakout clone with an OpenGL 3D representation. Open Source GPL for Linux and Win32 (Jul 2003)
CannonSmash - 3D table tennis game CannonSmash is a 3D tabletennis game. The goal of this project is to represent various strategy of tabletennis on computer game. Play over LAN or Internet too. Windows and Linux (Dec 2002)
Chess gameboards XBoard, WinBoard, and AmyBoard are GUIs for chess games. They display a chessboard on the screen, accept moves made with the mouse, and load/save games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). Supports X11, Win32, and Amiga. Can be used over Internet! (Jul 1998)
CUI Chess Game - for MS-DOS MS-DOS chess program with complete source in C by Walt Karas. Uses simple keyboard and screen calls which can be ported to other environments. (Sep 2002)
daphne - a laserdisc arcade game simulator DAPHNE, the First Ever Multiple Arcade Laserdisc Emulator! =] DAPHNE is a program that lets one play the original versions of many laserdisc arcade games on one's PC. NT/Linux. Freeware (Oct 2002)
DGen - Sega Genesis emulator DGen is a free open source Genesis/Megadrive emulator for Windows 95/98/2000 (and possibly NT) running under DirectX. It has sound. Recommended computer is a Pentium-II. (Oct 2000)
DragonDraughts Complete game of "Draughts" for Linux or BSD, uses XBoard for display of pieces. Draughts is the British traditional game of "checkers" (Jan 1998)
ExtremeFight - adventure dungeon game in C++ My sofware is a game called Xtreme Fight version 1.0. In a nutshell, it's a text-based rpg-battle type game where you defeat enimies and bosses while earning money so you can advance buy buying weapons, armor, potions, and other things. (Nov 2002)
Free Civilization - a Civilization II game clone Free Civilization is a game similar to Microsoft's Civilization II. It is a multiplayer game where the goal is to become the greatest civilization on the planet. Supports Amiga, Win32, all types of Unix. Freeware. (Jun 2002)
FreeCraft - free fantasy real-time game engine FreeCraft is a free cross-platform real-time engine. Play over a LAN, the internet or against the computer. Currently only a complete WarCraft II compatible theme is available. Runs on Linux, BSD, Mac, and Win32 (Sep 2001)
GAMES - Gnu Animation Multimedia Entertainment Sys Object-oriented game/multimedia toolkit includes
  • Sprite32 (2-D animation for X and Java)
  • OSound (multichannel mixed audio), SV3D (3-D environment). GPL Freeware. (Sep 1999)
  • GL-117 - flight simulator in OpenGL GL-117 is an OpenGL- and SDL-based action flight simulator written in C++. It provides a random terrain generator, lighting effects, sounds, and joystick support. GPL. Win32/Linux (Aug 2003)
    GNU Go - the ancient game of Go! This software is an attempt to distribute a free program to play Go. GNU Go had its original concept based on the article "Programming the Game of Go", Byte, Vol.6 No.4, by J. K. Millen. (May 1999)
    Green Light Chess - windows game w/source Green Light Chess is a program that plays chess fairly well. It utilizes a minimax search with alpha-beta pruning. For Win32 with source code. (Aug 2002)
    Hangman for Windows A hangman game for Win95 that includes source code using Visual C++ (Apr 1999)
    Hunt the Wumpus Game Hunt the Wumpus is computer game from the 1970s where you move through a maze trying to catch the elusive Wumpus. Watch out for the bats and the bottomless pit. Source in C for this text-mode game. (Apr 1999)
    Late - arcade game Late is a little game in which you must eliminate the background to constrict the area in which an assortment of different balls may bounce, without getting hit by a ball in the act of chopping. It is more entertaining than it sounds. Linux (Aug 2003)
    Liquid War - multiplayer wargame Liquid War is a truly original multiplayer wargame. You control an army formed with thousands of pixels (fighters) which look like liquid and try to eat your opponent. Single, multi, or network play. Linux and Windows (Dec 2002)
    Pong - DirectX game Win32 version of Pong. I use C++ and low level Direct Draw and Direct Sound. Freeware (Oct 2002)
    QPong - Pong game clone QPong is another clone of the game "pong". It features some nice graphics and is very flexible. You can configure the images, sizes, speeds, and shapes of the pads and balls. Most importantly, it's fun to play. (Aug 2003)
    Space Invaders - classic arcade game Space Invaders executables and source code (Borland C++). Windows 95/NT, Pentium, 800x600 minimum resolution to play (Jun 2003)
    Spacewar - Arcade game for Windows/Linux Spacewar is an arcade game in which two players have to destroy each other's space ship by hitting them with their lasers. It uses SDL and runs on both Linux and Windows. (Aug 2003)
    SSC - 2D Geometric Space Combat SSC is a fast paced arcade space shoot'em-up featuring many colorful bouncy balls. The game focuses on interesting play and physics themes. Uses SDL and glut. Linux/Win32. GPL (Sep 2003)
    The Guild - Raytraced adventure game The Guild is a fully rendered/raytraced first-person interactive adventure. It's still under development. It will contain fully rendered animations, digitized speech and soundtrack. Win32, Linux, and BeOS. (Oct 2000)
    TIC TAC TOE AI - AI learning game TIC TAC TOE game that learns. Written in C for MS-DOS. Freeware (Jun 2002)
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