Open Source Board Games

Domination is a game that is a bit like the well known board game of Risk or RisiKo. It has many game options and includes many maps. Written in java it includes a map editor, a simple map format, multiplayer network play, single player, hotseat, 5 user interfaces and many more features, it works in all OSs that run java 1.5 or higher, iOS and Android.

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational.

A arcade game. You drive a toy wood engine in many levels. You must collect all the coaches. This game looks like the game snake.

jose is a graphical Chess tool. >>> moved to https://peteschaefer.github.io/jose <<< You can store chess games in a database. You can view and edit games (including variations and comments). You can play against a plugged-in chess engine and use it for analysis. Features 3D board view.

Gomoku (five in a row) and Renju game which has a skinable board and external artificial intelligences from China, Hungary, Czech Republic, Russia, Japan and USA. The board size and time limits are customizable.

Looking for mines on triangular or rectangular fields. The computer moves mines in the background, so that you must not guess. If you set hard level, you will die every time you make a mistake. You can change the board size and mines density.

ChessDB is a free open-source chess database for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and most UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. ChessDB is based on code from Scid http://scid.sourceforge.net/ - a project for which there have been no updates for several years. In

EBoard is a user-friendly chess interface for ICS (Internet Chess Servers). While it will focus on FICS (www.freechess.org), should work with any other ICS. It supports playing against local chess engines too.

The Nimzo_3d GUI is a chess program for Windows 7 - 11 It is an enhanced version of the Tarrasch Chess GUI written by Mr Bill Forster, with many additional features. It has a simple, easy to use interface, so it is ideal for novice players or inexperienced computer users. It also has more advanced features for expert users. So if you just want a casual blitz game against the computer, or to automatically analyse one of the famous games from chess history, it can perform these tasks and many more. It has a choice of a classical 2d screen view or realistic 3d graphics powered by DirectX Anyone who wants to add new features to the program should download the file < Nimzo_3d_v4_build.7z> from the < Files > < Build> section. This package contains Visual Studio project files and C++ source code files. Alternative Nimzo 3d Chess GUI website with other downloads, including 32-bit versions - https://nimzo-3d-chess-gui.infinityfreeapp.com

Java Open Chess is a project written in Java in NetBeans IDE. There is possibility to play for 2 players on local computers and via network connection. There is also an option to play versus quite weak computer oponent. Stronger computer oponens will be implemented soon. ATTENTION: Requires Java 1.8 or higher!

Peg solitaire is a board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes. The program includes over 330 solitaire problems. The program looks for new solutions and it is possible to raise new problems.

glChess is an open source 2D/3D chess interface for the GTK+/Gnome desktop. It is designed to have a clean and simple interface. Games can be played between human players and compatible 3rd party artificial intelligences.

The linotte is a mix of a dice game and of a board game. Two players play through the network or one against the computer. It is written in C , uses xml quite a lot and GTK2 for the GUI. Currently only runs on linux.

GOdroid is an Android application to play the strategic board game Go against the GPL Go engine GNU Go. It contains a Go board UI and minor changes to GNU Go. This site contains the sources for the UI and the (few) changes to the GNU Go sources. Translations contributed by - Chinese: Jean Lea and Kid Wong - Russian: Шмойлов Валерий - Danish and Norwegian: Michael Berthelsen - Polish: Piotr Goliasz - Finnish: Daniel Landau - Romanian: Mircea Damian - Spanish: Pol Urós Guardiola - Portuguese (Brazil): Igor Costa - Italian: Alessio Gerola - Hungarian: Téglás Zoltán, review: András Oláh - French: Laurent L Volunteers for providing additional translations are very welcome - it's easy, just fill out a google docs/drive spreadsheet.

OpenChess is a Chess game, Opening Trainer and Chess data base for the PalmOS platform. It supports Palm devices with OS 3.0 and above and uses separate layouts for Grayscale, Color and HiRes (OS5 and Sony Clié OS4) devices.

Tournament management software for various sports that uses swiss pairing system. Program invented for tournament organisers. It assists in managing events, calculates standings, ratings, supports printing and checking player cards. If something goes wrong during tournament, it is posibble also to enter pairings manually. Project is written in Java SE designed for PC and J2ME for mobile phones. DEAR USER If you are missing any features in this software, please open a ticket and describe them.

The classic boggle game with i18n support.

Tic Tac Toe is a simple game written in Java. It features a Computer AI, Internationalization and an Undo function. It is my first complete app so don't expect too much.

Network gaming environment for AI warriors. Offers an application server, a soccer game application, an observer module visualizing a match and a template code for the warriors development.

Play Monopoly like games online.

Chess challenge is an open source chess AI project with GUI. If you want source drop me a mail. ces.mohab[at]yahoo[dot]com

A simple and fun remake of the old Filler game that was popular in early 1990s (and was a true marvel of its time). Written in FreePascal with Lazarus libraries. The game objective is to capture half of the colored field by annexing tiles color by color.

CompWebChess 2 is an open source web-based chess program and application which allows you to play chess over the internet in a turn-based setting, using PHP and MySQL. Home Page: http://www.trimBrain.com

The foundation of this project is the dicepanel, a dice roller. A couple of classic dicegames will be included too, such as Yatzee. This project is using the Almond framework and it is runnable with Java Web Start.

Einstein Plays No Dice is a board game which object is to move one of one’s 6 cubes to the other side of the board or remove all the opponent cubes. More information available on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EinStein_w%C3%BCrfelt_nicht! Currently it’s an Android application.