Softwares For Playing Games

Gamegineer provides a virtual tabletop for playing traditional board and card games over the Internet. It includes a framework for extending the tabletop to support new games and features. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Humidity is a cross-platform library for playing MIDI files in games. Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

JGame is a small multiplatform 2D game engine. It runs on the Java JRE 1.3+ platform, the J2ME (MIDP2.0/CLDC1.1) mobile platform, and the Android (2.1+) platform. It provides a very high-level framework for 'classic' type arcade games. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

ELGE - Environment for language games experiments. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

The Mercury MUD driver is a C++ network server for extensible text-based multi-user role playing games. Players can extend the game world on the fly (even while the game is running) via a simple object-oriented C-like language. Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Solaris, Linux

QUB is an electronic front-end for playing wargame/boardgame-style games on your computer using graphics files for pieces and game boards. QUB stands apart from other software of it's type, however... it's different. Platforms: Mac, BSD, Linux

RPG++ is a C++ Class Library for use in rapidly developing Role Playing Games. It provides a framework for network abstraction, player management, inventory control, basic economics, and a scripting engine. Please note this is in Alpha status. Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Solaris, Linux

Very simple Python engine for text based adventures(interactive fiction). Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

The Tactics Editor for Squad Actions (TESA) is a strategy editor for computer games. It is fully customizable and not fixed for use on one particular game. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

100 Rogues is currently featured by Apple as one of the "Best Role-Playing Games" for iOS. It's great on Mac OS, too! 100 Rogues was recently listed in the top 40 games on the OS X App Store. 100 Rogues, one of GamePro's "36 Best iPh Platforms: Mac

For pen & paper role playing games. Explore a dark dungeon containing friends and foes from the collection of more than 50 miniatures (mostly monsters). One map is included, but you can add your own, view it from any direction. Each of the mi Platforms: Mac

The Legendary Tales Engine is the program which is used for playing the adventures created with the Editor. Unlike many other text-based programs it does not have a command line and the user acts with the use of a well developed GUI. The Engine also supports the loading of pictures and maps for... Platforms: Windows

Print your own money now!Do you need money for playing"Monopoly", should your kids learn to count and calculate money or do you want to get practice with the new European currency?Use"Euro Printer"together with your color printer to print all the seven different banknotes, optional front or...

Voice changing software for online games, VoIP, and the multimedia. Take your voice-changing to a new level with superior voice-learning technology and sound quality. The new version sports an enhanced professional user interface, extended file format support and an extensible plug-in... Platforms: Windows

DryChess is a software program for playing on-line Chess through Internet Relay Chat (IRC). DryChess supports free on-line Chess, simple rating system for players, PGN importing and exporting, HTML output of games, positional setup, four types of Chess notation, storing comments per move,... Platforms: Windows

AquaChess is a software program for playing on-line Chess through Internet Relay Chat (IRC). AquaChess supports Prize-money and free on-line Chess, simple rating system for players, PGN importing and exporting, HTML output of games, Positional setup, four types of Chess notation, storing comments...

JGame is a small high-level 2D game engine for producing games on Java platforms. It does a lot of the stuff you need for a game automatically, and "classic" type arcade games can be developed with a minimum of effort. It is based on sprites with automatic collision detection, and a tile-based... Platforms: *nix

Mpserv is an architecture for playing MP3s distributed throughout a LAN or high-speed WAN. The core is the server which houses a database of song titles available through the network. Clients connect to this server and request songs to be played on the stereo connected to the server machine.... Platforms: *nix

DaisyPlayer is a program for playing Digital Talking Books (DTB). The DaisyPlayer Projects main focus is to make a library with a small, easy-to-use API, making it easy for other developers to write their own daisy players without having much knowledge about the Daisy format and standards. A... Platforms: *nix

xmms musepack is an XMMS plugin for playing MPC files. It lets you play MPC-encoded files using Frank Klemms MPC library.. Platforms: *nix