Open Source Java Board Games

Domination is a game that is a bit like the well known board game of Risk or RisiKo. It has many game options and includes many maps. Written in java it includes a map editor, a simple map format, multiplayer network play, single player, hotseat, 5 user interfaces and many more features, it works in all OSs that run java 1.5 or higher, iOS and Android.

http://www.triplea-game.org/

JSoko is a Java program for playing the Sokoban game. It features path finding, auto push, auto solving, undo/redo, deadlock detection, and more.

Jin is a Java client for various chess servers. It currently supports the Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com) and the Free Internet Chess Server (freechess.org) but is designed to be able to support any chess server.

Chess application which allows working with PDFs and PGNs. You can work with the chess games of the PDF and edit their tree of variants. Graphical environment. Standard PGN TAGs. PGN comments. Ocr like (Fen string detection from chess board position images). Connection to Uci chess engines (like stockfish). Position analysis, full game analysis. You can now play games against uci engines. pdf2pgn command line command included. Detailed documentation. Multilanguage currently support for English, Spanish and Catalan. Dark mode option. JDK-17 compatibility You will find more about it at this web sites: https://chesspdfbrowser.com?origin=sourceforge https://www.frojasg1.com:8443/downloads_web/web/html/chessPdfBrowser.html?origin=sourceforge

Simpro is a collection of applications. They are just small programs includes some games, unitlities... written in Delphi, Visual Basic, Java.

SJCE - Strong Java Chess Engines, free portable cross-platform graphical chess game, 100%-pure Java. Support with including many best free/open-source java xboard/uci chess engines. It is possible to play both White and Black. It is possible to play Human to Human, Human vs Engine, Engine vs Engine. Simple and intuitive GUI - Graphical User Interface. Tested on Windows/Linux. Need jre1.8 - https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/javase8-archive-downloads.html. Source - https://github.com/harp077/sjce If you like this - put a star on https://github.com/harp077/sjce/ for support project please.

Java Open Chess is a project written in Java in NetBeans IDE. There is possibility to play for 2 players on local computers and via network connection. There is also an option to play versus quite weak computer oponent. Stronger computer oponens will be implemented soon. ATTENTION: Requires Java 1.8 or higher!

jose is a graphical Chess tool. >>> moved to https://peteschaefer.github.io/jose <<< You can store chess games in a database. You can view and edit games (including variations and comments). You can play against a plugged-in chess engine and use it for analysis. Features 3D board view.

Gametable (also known as GamenianTabele), is a Java-based shared whiteboard and chat client. It is designed primarily to provide an online tabletop interface. Draw directly, or place images, that all connected users can see and manipulate. RNG/dice functions supported, infinite table size, a few Z-order layers, pointer tools visible to everyone connected, stand along host server, and basic tagging and drawing tools. It specializes in simplicity, virtually no learning curve, and ease of use. Shared image files auto-propagate to other users (and only images, no other file type will propagate), which allow them to use a local cache to view shared spaces.

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jDip is a tool for mapping, managing, and adjudicating Diplomacy games. It has a simple but powerful graphical interface, with a richly customizable map display. Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris are supported. Over 25 variants are supported.

Colossus is a Java clone of the boardgame Titan, a turn-based fantasy wargame for 2-6 players. Each player moves stacks of creatures around a strategic board, recruiting more creatures and fighting enemy stacks on tactical maps.

XiangQi Wizard (Chinese Chess Wizard) is a powerful XiangQi (chinese chess) program, which supports UCCI engines. XQWizard Light is the Mobile version for Windows CE and Java ME. ElephantEye is the UCCI engine in XQWizard with strong AI.

Scrabble Dictionary is a dictionary / word builder for Scrabble®-like games. It allows you to determine which words can be formed with a given rack and board. Features single and multi-player modes, multiple board designs and tile bags.

This is a game of Scotland Yard, which has been coded in Java. The moves of Mr. X are made by the program, while the human player makes the detective moves. The game works fine on both Windows and Linux platforms.

Mobile Chess (for Java ME) and Flash Chess (for Web) with Strong Chess AI, see http://mobilechess.sourceforge.net/. Java Applet Chess and Ajax Chess are also available. Mobile Chess is sponsored by Chess Wizard now, see http://www.chess-wizard.com/.

Mediocre is a Java-based chess engine, implementing features like LMR, SEE, history and killer moves heuristics, transposition tables, internal iterative deepening, PVS search etc.

GOdroid is an Android application to play the strategic board game Go against the GPL Go engine GNU Go. It contains a Go board UI and minor changes to GNU Go. This site contains the sources for the UI and the (few) changes to the GNU Go sources. Translations contributed by - Chinese: Jean Lea and Kid Wong - Russian: Шмойлов Валерий - Danish and Norwegian: Michael Berthelsen - Polish: Piotr Goliasz - Finnish: Daniel Landau - Romanian: Mircea Damian - Spanish: Pol Urós Guardiola - Portuguese (Brazil): Igor Costa - Italian: Alessio Gerola - Hungarian: Téglás Zoltán, review: András Oláh - French: Laurent L Volunteers for providing additional translations are very welcome - it's easy, just fill out a google docs/drive spreadsheet.

JSettlers2 is a web-based version of the board game Settlers of Catan written in Java. This client-server system supports multiple simultaneous games between people and/or AI bots. Originally written by Robert S Thomas as an AI dissertation (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsettlers). The active source code is hosted at https://github.com/jdmonin/JSettlers2 including full history; the sourceforge CVS is historical up to 2012-09-28.

Playbox.fx is a free, ad-free and still growing collection of board games. It is a private hobby project with no commercial goals. It contains Mahjong Solitaire, Draughts, Chess, Go, Halma, Nine Men's Morris and Peg Solitaire. The games can be played against a simple AI or locally against friends. There is a portable version (zip) for Linux. There is an installer (exe) and a portable version (zip) for Windows. Have fun and stay healthy, Markus.

Capa chess is a chess program. Features built-in simple engine, interface with external XBoard/WinBoard and UCI engines, basic plug-in capabilities, import/export, 2D/3D boards with customization. Java JRE 1.8 or above required.

TCP Java Games is a project aimed at creating a server to which users can connect and play games with each other. At the moment, only checkers exists but the project will be expanded to include other games as well. The project consists of a server which hosts the games and which each user connects to, and a client which connects to the server.

Implementation of the original Chinese board game of Mahjong using Hong Kong rules.

Cluedo, the murder mystery game in Java. Includes several maps (and mapping tools), AI players, configurable cards, sounds and multiple languages. In the pipe-line: networking support, improved graphics, and advanced artificial intelligence.