Free game system software for linux

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

Open Gaming System project is a platform for developing open gaming software.

It defines an API and provides a free software implementation of this interface. It is designed to be portable, reusable, and flexible enough for use in any game world or campaign setting including medieval, modern, futuristic, gothic, eastern, and western, as well as the traditional fantasy setting.

This distribution contains a software development kit (SDK) for development with C, C++, and Java.

"What is an open game?"

Basically, an open game is a role-playing game that uses an open rule system. An open game follows a recent trend in the role-playing gaming market where the rule systems for such games are shared with the gaming community much like open source software. Open source software is in fact the model for open games.

Role-playing games are a genre of tabletop and computer games typically set in a fantasy world where players assume and develop the personae of a character in an epic adventure. Back to the original question, open gaming software is software written for open games.

This software range from massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), complete campaign management systems, or character generation tools.

Gamefu project was previously know as Kamefu. Please update your SVN checkout. No release with the new name yet.

Gamefu is a (old-school) game collection manager and emulator frontend. Gamefu stand for "Gaming All Machine Emulator Frontend for UNIX".

Supported systems(as 0.1):
-NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
-SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)
-GB/GBC (Game Boy/Game Boy Color)
-GBA (Game Boy Advance)
-MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)

Games::PerlWar is a Perl variant of the classic Corewar game.

This is a sparring program, similar to the programmed reality of the Matrix.
It has the same basic rules, rules like gravity. What you must learn is that
these rules are no different than the rules of a computer system. Some of
them can be bent, others can be broken. - Morpheus

PerlWar is inspired by the classic http://www.corewar.info/|Corewar game. In this game, players pit snippets of Perl code (called agents) against each other in order to gain control of the vicious virtual battlefield known as... the Array.

GAME PARAMETERS

Size of the Array

The number of cells that the Array possesses. Each cell can hold one agent.

Agent Maximal Size

The maximal length, in characters, of an agent. If an agent is or becomes larger than this limit, it automatically segfaults upon execution.

Game Maximal Number of Iterations

The maximal number of rounds that can be played before a game is declared over.

Game::Life - Plays Conways Game of Life.

SYNOPSIS

use Game::Life;
my $game = new Game::Life( 20 );
my $starting = [
[ 1, 1, 1 ],
[ 1, 0, 0 ],
[ 0, 1, 0 ]
];

$game->place_points( 10, 10, $starting );
for (1..20) {
my $grid = $game->get_grid();
foreach ( @$grid ) {
print map { $_ ? X : . } @$_;
print "n";
}
print "nn";
$game->process();
}

Conways Game of Life is a basic example of finding living patterns in rather basic rulesets (see NOTES). The Game of Life takes place on a 2-D rectangular grid, with each grid point being either alive or dead. If a living grid point has 2 or 3 neighbors within the surrounding 8 points, the point will remain alive in the next generation; any fewer or more will kill it. A dead grid point will become alive if there are exactly 3 living neighbors to it. With these simple rules, fascinating structures such as gliders that move across the grid, glider guns that generate these gliders, XOR gates, and others have been found.

This module simply provides a way to simulate the Game of Life in Perl.

In terms of coordinate systems as used in place_points, toggle_point and other functions, the first coodinate is the vertical direction, 0 being the top of the board, and the second is the horizontal direaction, 0 being the left side of the board. Thus, toggling the point of (3,2) will switch the state of the point in the 4th row and 3rd column.

The edges of the board are currently set as "flat"; cells on the edge do not have any neighbors, and thus will fall off the board. Future versions may allow for warp edges (if a cell moves off the left side it reappears on the right side).

Crate Game Engine is a game engine that is designed to make the process of creating games trivial.
The rendering engine and scripting engine are removed from the game engine to make the specialization of games as easy as possible.
An XML game loader will be implemented to make creating games require no recompiling.
Extremely easy to use game engine with modular Scripting and Rendering engines.
Milestones:
Milestone 1: Basic framework compilable (completed Oct 9, 2005)
Milestone 2: C++ proof of concept demo using framework & text based RenderingEngine
Milestone 3: XML based game loader with Milestone 2 game ported to it
Milestone 4: Scripting support with Milestone 3 game ported to it
Milestone 5: 2D Rendering Engine with Milestone 4 game ported to it
Enhancements:
- This release includes minor API and documentation updates, as well as a logging system.

Games::Alak is a simple game-tree implementation of a gomoku-like game.

SYNOPSIS

% perl -MGames::Alak -e Games::Alak::play
...Or just run Alak.pm as if it were a program...
...Program responds with output, and a prompt:

Lookahead set to 3. I am X, you are O.
Enter h for help
X moves from 1 to 5, yielding .xxxx..oooo
alak>
...and now you enter the commands to play.

This module implements a simple game-tree system for the computer to play against the user in a game of Alak. You can just play the game for fun; or you can use this module as a starting point for understanding game trees (and implementing smarter strategy -- the modules current logic is fairly simple-minded), particularly after reading my Perl Journal #18 article on trees, which discusses this modules implementation of game trees as an example of general tree-shaped data structures.