Projects tagged ‘entertainment’, ‘fun’, and ‘osx’

ScummVM

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you ... [More] to play them on systems for which they were never designed! ScummVM lets you run these adventures: Adventure Soft's Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep's Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision's Gobliiins and games based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system. SCUMM is used for many games, including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. Compatibility with supported games is continually improving, so c [Less]

Metrics updated 04 Sep 08

Thousand Parsec

Thousand Parsec is not only a game by itself, it is also a framework for creating a similar group of turn-based space empire building games, which are often called 4X games, from the main phases found in them: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and ... [More] eXterminate. Some examples of games which Thousand Parsec draws ideas from are Stars!, VGA Planets, Reach for the Stars, Master of Orion and Galactic Civilizations. The idea is that a protocol is specified which defines how game servers and game clients communicate with each other. Protocol also specifies which objects are available for custom games or rulesets, which can have different rules of gamplay. Any client should be able to connect with any server and player should be able to play any game with it. [Less]

Metrics updated 16 Jul 08

Exult

Exult is an open-source game engine for playing Ultima7 on modern operating systems, using the game's original data files.

Metrics updated 02 Sep 08

openc2e

Openc2e is a cross-platform open-source game engine designed to be compatible with and run the Creatures series of games, including Creatures 1, 2, 3 and Docking Station.

Metrics updated 09 Jul 08

Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a simple and entertaining drawing program geared towards young children. It has a simple interface, sound effects, and a cartoon character (Tux, the Linux penguin). Along with drawing brush strokes, lines and shapes, you can also enter ... [More] text and place "rubber stamp" (or "sticker") images on the picture. Tux Paint is extensible, and could be useful in an educational environment (such as a grammar, elementary, or grade school). It's portable across numerous platforms, and runs well even on slower systems like the Pentium 133MHz. [Less]

Metrics updated about 9 hours ago

Frets on Fire

Frets on Fire is an excellent opensource clone of Guitar Hero for Windows, Linux, and OSX. It can import songs from a Guitar Hero I or II disc, can play user-created songs, or lets you to create your own songs with its song editor. For hardcore ... [More] players, your results are automatically posted to the World Charts on the website, so that you can see how awesome you are. (Written in Python using bindings to many fast C libraries.) [Less]

Metrics updated about 4 hours ago

1d6 roleplaying

The 1d6 project develops tools for the free One Die roleplaying System. Its first deliverable is a battle simulator using the simple One Roll combat System for quick combat resolution. Its second deliverable is the blob_battle, where two blobs ... [More] can duel. The third deliverable is babglet, which aims to ease game creation with pyglet. And then there's the TextRPG... [Less]

Metrics updated 03 Sep 08

Pentagram

Pentagram is a project aiming to create an Ultima 8 engine for use on modern operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

Metrics updated 02 Sep 08

Pioneers

The wonderfully addicting game based on "The Settlers of Catan" by Klaus Teuber. Separate packages for server, clients and AI are available.

Metrics updated 03 Sep 08

PHPMyGame

PHPMyGame is a library written in php and JavaScript. It makes text-based game making simple and enjoyable without extra coding. The library is very flexible and easy to use. There is more than one way to do something for new and old developers.