GGZ Gaming Zone

GGZ game clients pages
Games listed on this page are the ones the player gets to see when playing. Some of the game clients have been developed within GGZ, some others by independent developers. Some clients can play several related games as once, those are known as multi-engine clients. The following game clients have been created by the GGZ Gaming Zone developers:

KDE games collection:
This collection of games for users of the K Desktop Environment contains 9 games as well as support libraries for other KDE game developers. Some of the games can also be played without network against the computer. More information is available on the appropriate package page.

Client	Supported engines
KTicTacTux	TicTacToe
KDots	Connect The Dots
Fyrdman	Hastings1066
KGGZReversi	Reversi
Koenig	Chess
KCC	Chinese Checkers
Krosswater	Krosswater
Mühle	Mühle
KConnectX	ConnectX

Gtk+ games collection:
Based on the Gtk+ toolkit, 9 game clients have been created and bundled together in this package, which also contains support libraries for other Gtk+ game developers. 16 games can be played with this package in total. More information is available on the appropriate package page.

Client	Supported engines
TicTacToe	TicTacToe
Dots	Connect The Dots
Hastings1066	Hastings1066
Reversi	Reversi
Combat	Combat
Chess	Chess
Chinese Checkers	Chinese Checkers
GGZCards	Bridge FortyTwo Hearts LaPocha Spades Suaro Sueca Whist

SDL games collection:
For friends of fullscreen games, 2 games have been written using the SDL library which is very popular among game developers. More information is available on the appropriate package page.

Client	Supported engines
TTT3D	TicTacToe
Geekgame	Geekgame

SDL/Python games collection:
The Pygame builds upon the SDL platform and make game development with Python easy. GGZ includes 3 game clients in this package, making it possible to play 12 games in total. Most games can also be played without network against the computer. More information is available on the appropriate package page.

Client	Supported engines
GGZBoard	Reversi Chess Go Checkers Hnefatafl ConnectX Ludo Shogi Sudoku (Arimaa)
Xadrez Chinês	Chinese Chess
Escape/SDL	Escape

Java games collection:
While not really a collection as it only contains two games, this game supports nearly all of the GGZCards games. It is implemented using Java and is extremely popular with Spades players who use the applet version of it. More information is available on the appropriate package page.

Client	Supported engines
GGZJava-Cards	Bridge Hearts LaPocha Spades Suaro Sueca Whist
GGZJava-TTT	TicTacToe

Other GGZ game clients:
These game clients are special programs which are used to let Grubby (the chatbot) play games or to have some test games for the command line and for Windows.

Guru-TTT (TicTacToe engine)

Guru-Chess (Chess engine)

TTTXT (TicTacToe engine)

Escape (Escape engine)

ConnectX (ConnectX engine)

External game clients

The following games are not part of GGZ, they're developed externally by other projects. We appreciate game developers who support GGZ in their games.

GNOME game clients:
These clients are developed as part of the GNOME Games project.

Client	Supported engines
Gnect	ConnectX
Gnibbles	Gnibbles
Iagno	Reversi

KDE game clients:
These clients are developed as part of the KDE Games project. Note that they will only be available starting from KDE 4!

Client	Supported engines
KReversi	Reversi
KBattleship	Battleship
KSquares	Dots

Other external game clients:
Games of various projects which support GGZ.

Client	Supported engines
Kamikaze	Kamikaze
PyKamikaze	Kamikaze
T.E.G.	T.E.G.
CGoBan	Go
Widelands	Widelands
Freeciv	Freeciv
Freelords	Freelords

Finally, there are some game clients which are not maintained anymore. They are still of interest for developers and other interested people and can be found in the graveyard.