Free classic rpg software for linux

Java Classic RPG is an RPG framework, engine, and game that uses OpenGL, a challenging AI, huge territories, and classic pen-and-paper turn-based combat. This project is in the tradition of games like Wizardry 7 and EOB, but incorporates innovations made possible by modern computing technology.
The framework and engine feature a self-containing, playable, algorithmically-generated world, and can be the base for new games.
Enhancements:
- The 3D core was refactored, a new jungle design (along with partly billboarded trees and bushes) was added, and several optimizations and bugfixes have been included.

Spice Trade project is an RPG/strategy/adventure game.

Spice Trade is an RPG/adventure/strategy game in which the main character is a poor man who has lost his parents, inherited some land and a house.

He becomes a trader of spices and herbs in Baghdad at a time when Europeans are starting their "great voyages of exploration".

The game character has to ensure that the Europeans do not take over his country and his culture, while he has to expand the sphere of influence of his own culture.

Crossfire is an FREE, cooperative multiplayer graphical RPG and adventure game.

Crossfire is an open source, cooperative multiplayer graphical RPG and adventure game.

Since its initial release, Crossfire has grown to encompass over 150 monsters, about 3000 maps to explore, an elaborate magic system, 12 races, 15 character classes, a system of skills, and many artifacts and treasures.

Crossfire is based in a medieval fantasy world and is similar to other games of this genre.

Lachesis IRCRPG Combat Engine project is an IRC bot/RPG engine in C and C++.
Lachesis is an IRCRPG combat engine written in a combination of C and C++. The combat engine is being written for a specific RPG, but most of the project should be useful to IRCRPGs in general.
It includes a native interface to the IRC protocol to allow it to act as an IRC bot, for such uses as dice rolling and acting as a remote-controlled client (RPG NPC perhaps).
Enhancements:
- Auth_TUHCB has new method MatchNick
- Clarified a problem with failed logins shortly after joining a channel
- Util_Getline no longer exists
- Data format has changed
- data/users/master has become data/master
- Fixed irc.h so that lowlevel IRC interface neednt be in C
- Minor changes to prepare for CVS import
- Moved the sample data to example/data/
- Added a script to create and delete lachesis users in example/scripts/
- Added new utils functions

Freedroid RPG project is an extension/modification of the classical Freedroid engine into an RPG. The main differences to the classical version are as follows:
- The Tux is the main character of the rpg.
- The game uses isometric viewpoint and animated pre-rendered 3d character models for all characters inside the game.
- Dialogs and chatting with friendly droids and humans: Multiple-choice menus and voice samples (with subtitles for those without sound).
- There is an item and inventory system that is modeled after some popular standards of the industry
- An automap feature was added. (this is currently a bit unmaintained since part of the code needs to be re-written for proper OpenGL support in the automap display)
- Saving and loading of games.
- Shops to trade things and skills to learn.
- Controls are different: Mouse is the input method of choice.
- This is a graphically intense game. Therefore the archive size is comparably *huge* and not suitable for modem downloads with a dialup connection.
Enhancements:
- This version, mostly unchanged from -rc4, focuses on making the development for the game easier, exports some hardcoded data into files, makes the map editor a bit more usable, and has other major and minor tweaks.

Sphere RPG Engine project is a role-playing game creation engine.

Sphere is a RPGCE (a role-playing game (RPG) creation engine) that allows you to relatively easily put together an RPG along the lines of Final Fantasy 6 or Phantasy Star.

It supports 32-bit graphics (with 256 levels of translucency) and MP3, Ogg, MOD, S3M, IT, and XM files for audio (and WAV and SPX (speex) for sound effects), and does not place arbitrary limits on map, tile set, sprite set, or script sizes.

It also supports the three standard modes of input for games: keyboard, mouse, and joystick.

Sphere uses SpiderMonkey (Mozillas JavaScript implementation) for scripting. JavaScript is a very powerful, easy, and flexible language.

The core Sphere engine, after being installed, can run several games. This means that the games dont have to be distributed with the engine, saving download time and disk space. Also, the games can be run on other operating systems, such as Linux, if the engine runs there. On the other hand, you can include the Sphere engine with your game so that Windows users can run your game out of the box.

The Sphere engine is based around maps. Maps use tilesets, which are collections of tiles. A map of a beach would have tiles that represent the sand, the water, clouds, signs, and anything else on the beach. Sphere has support for animated tiles.

Torches could flicker in a cave, or waves could lap at the shore. Maps support unlimited layers, each with parallax and automatic scrolling.

Objects in Sphere are represented as entities. Townspeople are defined with spritesets, which are collections of frames. People can walk in eight directions, and have special directions (usually used for emotions or running). Unlike most RPG engines, spritesets in Sphere have a variable size. Large animal spritesets are used just as easily as people.

PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various archives. It is intended for use in video games, and the design was somewhat inspired by Quake 3s file subsystem. The programmer defines a "write directory" on the physical filesystem. No file writing done through the PhysicsFS API can leave that write directory, for security. For example, an embedded scripting language cannot write outside of this path if it uses PhysFS for all of its I/O, which means that untrusted scripts can run more safely.
Symbolic links can be disabled as well, for added safety. For file reading, the programmer lists directories and archives that form a "search path". Once the search path is defined, it becomes a single, transparent hierarchical filesystem.
This makes for easy access to ZIP files in the same way as you access a file directly on the disk, and it makes it easy to ship a new archive that will override a previous archive on a per-file basis. Finally, PhysicsFS gives you platform-abstracted means to determine if CD-ROMs are available, the users home directory, where in the real filesystem your program is running, etc.
You can find PhysicsFS in next :
The Build Engine can optionally be compiled with PhysicsFS support, which is good, because its standard packfile format offers no compression or long filenames.
ParaGUI is a cross platform toolkit built on Simple Directmedia Layer. That library has, among other useful stuff, a C++ wrapper for PhysicsFS. Here is an API reference for their interface to PhysicsFS.
SDL_sound comes with a technology demonstration program, playsound, that is a generalized sound file playback program. playsound can use PhysicsFS to stream audio out of archive files on-the-fly.
Falling Block Game is a Tetris-style game that uses PhysicsFS under the hood.
Excido is a 3D arcade game using PhysicsFS.
Tales of Middle Earth is an Angband-based RPG that uses PhysicsFS.
Dead Meat is a Bomberman clone with PhysicsFS support.
netPanzer, a multiplayer tactical warfare game, utilizes PhysicsFS.
Z-Raid is a River Raid clone using PhysicsFS on PocketPC devices!
Final Frontier Trader is a 2D single player space strategy, combat, and trading game powered by PhysicsFS.
Yac3De is a 3D engine that is using PhysicsFS to access Doom3 pakfiles in order to load their maps.
The maya2q3 plugin uses PhysicsFS to load shader resources from Quake 3 packages.
MindBender uses PhysicsFS for resource management.
Lincity-NG is a highly-polished SimCity clone that makes use of PhysicsFS.
Probably other software uses PhysicsFS. If you know of one, drop me a line.
Enhancements:
- The build system was changed to CMake. 7zip support was added.
- The library was made Unicode-clean and reentrant.
- Symbolic link support was added for Windows Vista, Linux, BeOS, OS/2, and Mac OS X support was improved, and Mac OS classic support was dropped.
- Many other fixes and improvements were made.

LinCity-NG is a City Simulation Game. LinCity-NG is a polished and improved version of the classic LinCity game.

Within the scope of the GoTM project at happypenguin.org we have created a new iso-3d graphics engine together with a completely redone and modern gui.