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/

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.

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 !

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.

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.

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.

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

Mahjong (麻將) is a classic game in china. This game is Taiwanese Mahjong using 16 tiles per player. It coded by pygame.

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.

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!

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.

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

Chess Stats uses Stockfish 17.1 to analyze any game in a pgn file. It then saves analysis and shows statistics for blunders and best moves for every move of the game. Interactive chessboard shows continuations from any selected move. From the interactive board you can step through the continuation or make new moves with the mouse. New moves calculate new possibilities. Python script developed with Python 3.1 on Linux Ubuntu 22 External libraries that are not part of the standard Python are included so that dependencies don't have to be dealt with by the end user.

BARS is a program for playing checkers. In this program, you can play with a robot of different difficulty levels, train your memory, solve tasks, memorize openings, save games played. Enjoy using it :) source code: https://github.com/Ni3nayka/BARS-international VK-group: https://vk.com/bars_checkers if you have a problem starting the program, try: 1) update net.framework 2) update VS MS C++ WARNING: the program works only with windows x64

Fruit machine game written in python.

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

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.

This project is a POSIX-compliant driver for the dgt board from dgtprojects. It is intented at acting as a layer between chess engines and the dgt board.

A Picross-like game.

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.

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

The Nuffle Blood Bowl Web Manager is a system for managing teams and leagues for the game Blood Bowl by Games Workshop. Version 2.x is implemented in Python and supports the PBBL ruleset. Version 1.x is implemented in PHP and supports the LRB ruleset.