Open Source Python Board Games

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/

Minimum resolution is 1600x900. Koxinga is the game similar with board game Jamaica for human vs 5 computer player only. English game rule: https://sourceforge.net/projects/koxinga/files/Koxinga_English_User_Guide.pdf/download Chinese game rule: https://sourceforge.net/projects/koxinga/files/koxinga_chinese_manual.pdf/download 1) Q: Why won’t my piece move? A: You’re probably at a fork. On the map, look for two faint green arrows. Hover your mouse over them— they turn bright green. Click an arrow to choose your path. 2) Q: After a naval battle, why does the game seem stuck? A: If you won, you must choose the loot. Go to the computer that started the battle (or the loser) and pick what to take. If you’re not sure, just press Auto take.

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.

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

Embark on an epic journey of twists and turns as you dive into the classic game of Snake and Ladder with a modern twist. With a vibrant 10x10 board and 2 to 4 vibrant players, the battleground is set for an exhilarating showdown now with multiplayer support upto 4 players with visual animations of pieces moving on the board! Gather your friends and family for more fun with new updates in game. Now with full screen mode. Download the latest version!

Players and solvers for the game of Hex.

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.

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.

This basic dice roller application supports 6 different types of dices such as D4, D6, D8, D10, D12 and D20. Clicking on the Roll button rolls these dices. Also pressing the space bar in your keyboard rolls the dice. Useful for board games and RPG games.

Duo is a Crazy Eight card game (think Uno) written in Python, translated in many languages. PLEASE NOTE THAT DUO DEVELOPMENT NOW OCCURS ON LAUNCHPAD AND THIS PAGE ONLY EXISTS FOR HISTORY REFERENCE.

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

Fruit machine game written in python.

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.

A remake of the ZX Spectrum game 'Chaos'. Fast action turn based strategy for all ages.

Go Siege is a transformation of the ancient Chinese game of Go into a massively multiplayer online game in which hundreds of players can compete simultaneously.

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.

Carcassonne is (originally) a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German. This application is one of its several implementations bears the base game. There are 72 cards to be deposited to the game board and 7 meeples (or pennants) are available per player. You may play against one or more computer/human players using this game with different selectable computer players' skills. Computer player examines own her step only, so the analysation depth is only 1, trying to gain the maximum available extra points. Turning trace mode on it is possible to play against computer with ultra skill level, where the analysation depth is increased to 2. With this setting the AI is stronger but the gameplay is unbearable slow. It is just for test purpose.

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

The BoardGame Tool offers an easy, XML driven interface to implementing boardgames on the computer, with automatic network play, artificial intelligence and robot possibilities. Game rules are encoded in easy-to-learn embedded Python.

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

LuckyWords is an open-source classic word guessing game loosely based on 'Hangman' and 'Wheel of Fortune'. It is targeted for Linux and the KDE desktop, though in principle, as a Python application it is platform independent. LuckyWords depends on Python 3 and PyQt4 and is released under the terms of GPL 3.0. For further information, visit the wiki or our website at www.casualcoding.org.

A Picross-like game.

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.