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"Kyrathaba's Hangman" is a Hangman variant with a little bit of flavor from from the "Wheel of Fortune" t.v. show, such as a scoring system. The object of the game is to keep on solving one Hangman puzzle after another, accumulating points in your Score, towards the goal of setting a High Score... Platforms: Windows

HostageMaster lets you play Hostage Chess, the exciting chess variant. Hostage Chess takes all the usual rules of chess, and adds in the ability for captured pieces to return to the board. This simple change results in an exciting tactical game that can explode with dramatic reversals at a... Platforms: Windows

This game is a variant of the well-known game LINES. Elements on the game field must be arranged in such way, that closed contours must be formed. The user can rotate elements by pressing the right button of the mouse. The game has two modes: "Classic Mode" (new elements appear after each move... Platforms: Windows

Blocks is a 3D tetris variant (yes, another one) using the Crystal Space 3D Engine. It serves as a nice playable game and also an example of a not-too-complex game using Crystal Space. Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

Croatian Chess is a collection of various chess variants, starting as a simple and natural enhancement to classical chess and growing ever more complex with each new variant. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Superficially, Dominoes on Acid is a solitaire variant of Dominoes with weird colorful tiles. But on a deeper level it is a GUI for natural deduction. Every completed domino is equivalent to a proof of a tautology in classical propositional logic. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

EyAngband is a variant of the Roguelike game Angband. It's goal is to add new gameplay and interface features while retaining game balance. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Safe Lua is a variant of Lua tailored for advanced sandboxing. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Variant Data files repository for the Realpolitik ( http://realpolitik.sourceforge.net/ ) viewer and adjudicator for the Diplomacy board game. Platforms: Windows, Mac

SLASH'EM (SuperLotsaAddedStuffHack - Extended Magic) is a variant of Nethack. It is a roguelike, single-player role-playing game where the hero must venture through the depths of the Dungeon of Doom to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor. Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

Twisted Life is a video game that uses a variant of John H. Conway's Life cellular automaton in which Life forms twist around the center of the universe. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

XVCL is a general-purpose language for configuring variants in all sorts of textual documents (including programs). It is based on frame technology. XVCL processor automates the customization process to produce system from specification of variants. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

mySTEP is a variant of the open source projects mGStep/GNUstep for providing full compatibility to the Cocoa framework (Foundation + AppKit + some other key frameworks). This allows straightforward porting of Mac applications from MacOS X to embedded systems like the Sharp Zaurus or OpenMoko... Platforms: Mac

Narde is the backgammon variant with extended game duration and more strategy-oriented positions. Gameplay is similar to Moultezim and Fevga and also known as "??????? ?????". Checkers in narde may be moved only to open or friendly-occupied poi Platforms: Mac

This script is a variant of a Tkinter Menu which allows sub-menus to automatically open/close when the controlling button is active/inactive. Sub-menus can be instances of any arbitrary widget, such as a Pmw.ComboBox.The topmost level is a Button which, when activated, drops down a menu... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

The Gaussian Kernel can be changed to any desired kernel. However such a change will not dramatically improve results. This is a variant of ridge regression using the kernel trick (Mercers Theorem). Platforms: Matlab

This code implements two variations of the paper"High accuracy optic flow using a theory for warping" presented at ECCV 2004 by Dr. Thomas Brox.Its variants appeared in "Particle Video"presented at CVPR 2006 by Dr. Peter Sand.The files optical_flow_brox.m andoptical_flow_sand.m are the files you... Platforms: Matlab

Considering some input arguments, this function performs n simulations with random trades in a price matrix, saving 3 performance indicators (annualized return, annualized standard deviation and annualized sharpe) at each simulationFor example, suppose that you're a trader and have earned 15% of... Platforms: Matlab

In terms of behavior, this is an alternative to filter() for a moving-average kernel, except that it is faster. The speed does not depend on the filter length.The code uses a variant of the cumsum-trick, although not the "garden variety" but in a way that does not run into numerical issues for... Platforms: Matlab

Instead of starting with dark blue like Jet, this colormap starts with white. It goes to pure blue from white, and then continues exactly as Jet does, ranging through shades blue, cyan, green, yellow, and red, and ending with dark red.The attached picture shows how colormap can display some types... Platforms: Matlab