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/

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

PyScrabble is an online, multiplayer scrabble program written in Python.

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)

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.

written in python 2.7.x and pygame 1.9.1&2 I have not found anything playing with more than 2 childrens with serverals computers. A game easy, addictive, and not too long playing time. So, i made it: an arkanoid / breakout clone which have the particularity to play at 360°. pybreak360.cfg to fine configure outside game. pybreak360_kbd.py for special international keymap. on game, use mouse or arrow keys. press B to start/stop ComputerBootPlayer. press H to see HiScores. press D for LevelDesigner (see in levels/*.level to edit/create fine configured levels as BrickArray, Background, Music, ...) press PAGE_UP, PAGE_DOWN to change level in actual level pack. press SPACE or ENTER for menu. select level pack using menu/F9. play alone or connect up to 4 players via TCP network. select server using menu/F1, connect/disconnect using menu/F10. A good gameplay experience, 12 bricks bonus, more then 90 levels, ... tested on linux, XP, Seven

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.

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

Fruit machine game written in python.

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.

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.

Purpose of this project is to develop 2D cannon shooting game in Python. Dev environment is Python + PyGame + NumPy + PGU

ch0 c-h-zero the chess engine!!! How well is it possible for your processor(s) to play chess? How well is it possible for someone AND your processor(s) to play chess? Would they let it fly, or manage it actively? --> Let's evolve !!!

In knight tour (kt) problem every chess square is visited exactly once using knight moves. In this game some knight moves already made and we have an incomplete kt. The object is to complete the kt by guessing missing moves.

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

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.

Multiplayer game based on the open free game http://www.fortressfigures.com/zombieplague/. Server implemented with twisted framework and client will use android

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.