Open Source Python Board Games for Linux

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 multi-player networked clone of the classical Bubble Bobble board game. Throw bubbles at monsters and collect dozens of different bonuses before your co-players! A modernized version running the clients in browsers is available at https://bitbucket.org/arigo/bub-n-bros/

Play at many electronic darts game (such as Cricket, Crazy Cricket, 321 Zap, etc) with a cheap DIY dart game controled by an Arduino UNO controler, and the pyDarts python game ! Make you own game and share it with the community ! Note that this is NOT a software to manually score while you are playing beside ! This software score by itself but require a converted dart board ! pyDarts is the reference since no other electronic dart game offer so much functionalities !

A prototype for a 3D Goban display, full featured SGF editor, client for IGS-PandaNet and interface for GNU Go. glGo is written in C++ and based on wxWindows, OpenGL and SDL. glGo is available for Linux and Windows.

Players and solvers for the game of Hex.

Fruit machine game written in python.

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.

Blind Chess also known as "Dark Chess" (暗棋) or "Banqi" or Half Chess , is a two-player Chinese board game played on a 4x8 grid, or half of the xiangqi (Chinese Chess) board. This application is using Taiwan rule. AI is using basic minimax tree structure and some rules. Advanced algorithm such as Upper Confidence bounds applied to Trees and Monte Carlo Tree Search are NOT used. This app is single player vs computer only. For English user, Christakis Giorgios made Software Requirements Specification(pdf file), it will help anyone that downloads this application to understand basic blind chess and use it. You can download this pdf in Files->Specification folder.

Othello is a classic strategy game, also known as Reversi. Its objective is to finish the game with the greater amount of pieces (circles) of the same color.

Parchis Game in OpenGL. It has GPL license. There are Linux and Windows versions.

Stawkobot to komputerowy partner do gry planszowej „Stawka większa niż życie”. Program oczywiście nie będzie przesuwał pionków na fizycznej planszy, ale podejmuje decyzje, które podejmować musi twój przeciwnik tworząc tym samym iluzję gracza. Poza podejmowaniem decyzji podczas gry, Stawkobot pomaga śledzić punkty akcji, punkty zwycięstwa oraz postępy w śledztwie, a także przypomina o niektórych czynnościach, o których łatwo zapomnieć podczas rozgrywki (np. umieszczenie znacznika „Tu byłem” w przeszukanych lokacjach). W sekcji Wiki znajdziecie też kilka scenariuszy stworzonych specjalnie z myślą o rozgrywce z programem.

Volity is a platform for Internet-based multiplayer games. ****MIGRATED TO GITHUB**** Please see: https://github.com/jmacdotorg/Volity

MKGI Chess Club is a chess playing server with a pure Web interface. It features complete player profile management, full html email notification with embedded board display. It also includes an interface to match against chess engines such as gnuchess.

4st Attack is a gorgeous looking connect-four. And whilst being good looking it's scarily addictive!

A simple logical game where you change the color of your empire to win more territory than your opponent.

Go-Mo-Cult is an implementation of the board game Gomoku (also known as "five in a row").

A cross platform chess database which supports ChessGML, PGN, SVG, PostgreSQL and plugins written in Java or Jython. Some Python chess libraries and some Python tools are included. Usable pieces are Java and Python opening classification libraries.

Horizon is a 10x10 draughts program created by Feike Boomstra.

PyBawo is a multiplayer implementation of the East African board game, Bao (Bawo) in Python. PyBawo largely implements Bao (Bawo) as played in Malawi with additional rules that eliminate the possibility of infinite moves. PyBawo currently supports local two player games against another human or the computer.

Sulk is a computer version of one of Games Workshop's most perfectly conceived games, Space Hulk first edition. Play on a hotseat, against AI Genestealers, or (planned) over the internet.

Mahjong (麻將) is a classic game in china. This game is Taiwanese Mahjong.

Written in Python 2.7.x and pygame1.9.1~2 compliant (at least) Python 3.4 HOW TO PLAY: keyboard UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, escape to quit increase your score shifting tiles with same number. the value of resulting tile is multiplied *2. CUSTOMISE YOUR GAME: edit py2048.cfg configuration file. you can: -Change Raws and Columns amount. -Change Random range value of new tile. -Limit the maximum tile value. -Limit time allowed for movement. -Enable no movement (a new tile appear even if your movement doesn't shift anything). -Set shift to one step only. -Save the game state when exit (for autoload at start game) -Key config player 2 ect... V0.1.0: -add Small, Medium and Large preconfig Panel Game. -add HiScore for Small, Medium And Large Panel Game -check for close windows as QUIT event. -add Change theme screen BckGnd on score tile. -add counter move V0.1.2: -compliant Pyhton34 -add AI Auto Boot -add 2 players Human/AI (keys A,Q,W,X)

A clone of the board game Alhambra. Players use their resources to try to build the best village. A fun game with fairly simple rules for 2 to 6 players.

Move your armies between territories in a board and dispute territories through 2-D artillery simulation. Soundtrack by Stabilizer (http://www.myspace.com/stabilizer), every track is used with their permission.

This project has moved to: https://github.com/DrFriendless/ExtendedStats Please don't download it from sourceforge.