Free game servers software for linux

Game Server Startup Script project is a startup script to manage dedicated game servers like Quake3.
Game Server Startup Scripts is a startup script to manage a wide variety of Linux dedicated game servers. It can start/stop/restart/fix dedicated game servers like Quake3, Half Life, Tribes 2, UT2K4, BF1942 and others.
It uses qstat through cron to validate that a game is running as expected. If a game is not running as expected, the game is automatically restarted from the script through cron.
GSSS was written becuase I wanted a way to start up a variety of games in a standard way. Then I also wanted to make sure the games stayed running even after a crash.
So I wrote this perl script. It will start games and through a cron job make sure they stay running. If you have qstat installed it can also verify the game is running like it is suppose to be and not in some strange state where no one can play.
If the game is running but unresponsive, it kills it and starts it again. You can also stop running games cleanly as well.
Games supported by "Game Server Startup Script":
- Quake2
- Quake3
- RTCW
- Half Life
- Unreal
- UT2K3
- UT2K4
- Tribes 2
- NWN
- BF1942
- ET
Enhancements:
- Very minor changes, minor readme changes, clean up

cadaverserver project is a realtime artificial intelligence battle game server.

Cadaver is a simulated world of cyborgs and nature in realtime. The battlefield consists of forests, grain, water, grass, carcass (of course) and lots of other things.

The game server manages the game and the rules. You start a server and connect some clients. The clients communicate with the server using a very primitive protocol. They can order cyborgs to harvest grain, attack enemies or cut forest.

The game is not intended to be played by humans! Instead the idea is that you write artificial intelligence clients to beat the other artificial intelligences.

The server is a program that runs on the console.
It manages the rules of the game in realtime.

It listens on TCP port 8932.

You could connect to it by entering:

# telnet localhost 8932

You will get the Initialisation message.
You can now enter commands.

Invade Earth Server is a server for the Invade Earth game, for network play.
Main features:
- Multiple rule sets and maps:
- Invade Earth A.D. 2210
- Amoeba Invasion Expansion
- Mars Expansion
- Pantheon Expansion (our version of Risk: Godstorm) (coming soon)
- Classic
- Secret Mission
- Custom rule values
- A versatile Map Editor
- Several built-in AIs (play against the computer)
- Network support (play against your friends)
- A centralized list of open internet games
- Save and load game states, even over a network
- Watch a replay of saved games

ServerWatch is a GUI interface for the Linux NWN Server. It uses the KDE toolkit. I have changed the interface a bit from the server GUI that Bioware made for windows.

The biggest change is that I have grouped the widgets into two Tabs ("Server" and "Game"), and provided a third Tab ("Messages") that logs all server messages, and allows you to send commands to the server manually if you wish.

SecureSkat project is a decentralized implementation of the German card game Skat.

The program negotiates participating players and game sessions over an arbitrary IRC network (Internet Relay Chat).

Neither a trusted third-party (dealer) nor a centralized game server is necessary. All critical operations, e.g. shuffle of the deck, are performed using advanced cryptographic techniques (so-called Mental Poker solutions) provided by LibTMCG.

The outdated OpenSkat branch contains a graphical user interface based on XSkat 3.4. This interface can be used with most recent versions, but must be built separately.

game control program project helps administrate game servers, especially automated kicking of players.
game control program helps you administrate gameservers (its written for Q1 and Q3, but works for others). It is highly modular and therefore extensible.
With the current modules, it can start/stop servers, create and rotate logfiles, allow remote administration via telnet, and kick misbehaving players automagically (according to a rule set).
Main features:
- starting a game server and getting hold of all log messages
- creating log files (complete or rotated per map)
- parsing log messages (game independent and configurable)
- sophisticated remote administration (user groups, extensible command set)
- sending commands to a running server (Q,QW,Q2,Q3)
- automatic kicking system according to specific rules (eg. too high rate set by the client)
- check if a server is hanging and kill the process to force a restart
- sending commands to the server at specified timesallows timed startup / shutdown of servers
Enhancements:
- renamed packages and modules (see doc/config)
- added new module: CommandScheduler
- sends a command to the server in defineable periods - see cfg/events.xml allows:
- COMMAND - send as RCon command (command is set as attribute parameter)
- KILLSERVER
- STARTUP
- SHUTDOWN

A Jacks Game is a real-time game that runs in a Web browser using the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technology.

Multiple users can login in A Jacks Game to explore a common map and earn a common currency as their score.

A Jacks Game is free software released under GNU/GPL Open Source License.

Online Cardgame System project is a client-server system for playing card games over the net.
OCS is a client-server cardgame system, similar to those found at Yahoo! Games and elsewhere. The server is portable and has been tested under Linux, Win32, and several unix systems. We currently have Win32 and Java clients available, and a Qt client for Linux is in development.
Games are implemented as plugin modules, so new games can be added without recompiling the server. In addition, the client is written to be unaware of the mechanics of gameplay, so it can theoretically play any games the server supports without having to know how to play them specifically.
We currently have Euchre and Spades implemented, with bot support for both games, meaning you dont need a full 4 people to play a game. We plan on implementing more games in the future.
On a side note, development of this project tends to wax and wane with our motivation and amount of schoolwork.
Enhancements:
- Massive restructure of code into more object orientated patterns
- Added daemon capability to server
- Got rid of checksumming in the protocol since TCP/IP does it internally
- Padded STRINGS in the protocol on DWORD boundaries
- Added support for loadable account managers
- Removed crypting of the password by ocsd (account managers may do it)
- Added ODBC (for windows) and mySQL (for unix) account managers (database connectivity!!)
- Modified packet classes to throw exceptions instead of returning true-false
- Created packet manager classes to queue client packets, reduces total send calls
- Implemented bots when there arent enough people to play games
- Added new command line processing capabilities as well as configuration file support
- Fixed bug that allowed a person to overwrite an account when creating that same account
- Win32 - Made server link with DLL runtime library to reduce executable size and ease DLL dependencies
- Updated messages to be sent in HTML since the main clients support it
- Created Java client which can be run as an application or as an applet
- After a client is booted from a game, they cannot join the game again until they receive an invitation
- Fixed libtidy bug which caused it to erroneously format HTML
- Euchre supports intelligent bots
- Spades supports moronic bots (the AI is horrible but allows for gameplay)
- Fixed Spades textual problem when a round was over.
- Fixed Spades score calculation that resulted in no loss of points
- Win32 client now supports HTML (IE4+ required)
- Win32 client can now join games by right-clicking on an empty game slot in the game view.
- Fixed major bug in Win32 client that would cause it to crash when sending private messages
- Win32 client can now use /msg to send private messages