Projects

UFO: Alien Invasion

UFO: Alien Invasion is a strategy game featuring tactical combat against hostile alien forces which are about to infiltrate earth at this very moment. You are in command of a small special unit which has been founded to face the alien strike force. To be successful on the long run, you will also ... [More] have to have a research team study the aliens and their technologies in order to learn as much as possible about their technology, their goals and the aliens themselves. [Less]

Scorched 3D

Scorched3D is a cross-platform 3D remake of the popular 2D artillery game Scorched Earth. Scorched3D can be played against the computer, other players, and remotely across the Internet or LAN.

FreeCol

The FreeCol team aims to create an Open Source version of Colonization (released under the GPL). It's a turn based strategy game similar to Civilization.

Thousand Parsec

claimed by KDE

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 eXterminate. Some examples of games which Thousand Parsec ... [More] 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]

FreeOrion

Master of Orion-inspired turn-based game of epic space strategy that builds on the classic '4X' model by incorporating the nation-building elements of games such as Europa Universalis 2 and a versatile tactical combat engine. While its modular design allows for a significant degree of ... [More] customization of the game engine and the story elements by the community. The FreeOrion team is dedicated to the construction of a living, breathing universe in a 'grand campaign' model. [Less]

GloryLands Web-Based MMORPG

GloryLands is a Web-based, Massive Multiplayer Online RPG/Strategy game written entirely in PHP/MySQL. It aims to be endless and always interesting, using the constant contribution of the Game community.

ja2-stracciatella

A port of Jagged Alliance 2 to SDL and thus to other platforms SDL supports. Currently only x86 works due to the original supporting only little-endian, 32bit architecture and no strict alignment. This is planned to change. Also some vanilla source bugs are being fixed, so the project is named ... [More] stracciatella, where those bugfixes are pieces of chocolate in vanilla. [Less]

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.

GalaxyNG

GalaxyNG (Galaxy Next Generation) is a free play-by-email (PBeM) interstellar strategy wargame for multiple players. Each player gets to play one race in a galaxy filled with many planets. Races begin with one or more populated homeworlds and the other planets are empty. The object of the game is to ... [More] conquer the galaxy by colonizing and developing uninhabited planets, researching drive/weapons/shield/cargo technology, building warships and attacking neighboring races. [Less]

Starmapper

Starmapper is a maping utility that can read a map of "nodes", some files with "reports" and draw some pretty pictures. Originally for Stars! game, now it's Stars! and beyond! (you can make your own data model and plug it in). Mostly a playground for more or less silly ideas of the author.