Open Source Java Games for Linux

TV-Browser is a java-based TV guide which can be easily extended with lots of plugins. It is designed to look like your paper TV guide.

FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation. You start with only a few colonists defying the stormy seas in their search for new land. Will you guide them on the Colonization of a New World? The last stable version release can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freecol/files/latest/download The latest test pre-release of the next version can be found here: https://github.com/FreeCol/freecol/releases If you want to contribute to Freecol please visit our welcome information thread to see how here: https://sourceforge.net/p/freecol/discussion/719661/thread/2d0063a3bc/

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.

RealTimeBattle is a programming game, in which robots controlled by programs are fighting each other. The goal is to destroy the enemies, using the radar to examine the environment and the cannon to shoot.

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.

Risk has been renamed to Domination.

OCM is an easy to use program for managing your geocaches, with the goal of being the Linux equivalent to GSAK. OCM integrates with GPSBabel to support most GPS devices (requires GPSBabel to be installed).

This game takes place on Arlandagymnasiet where you are an AIT-student. Your mission is to complete high school with good grades.

DracMan is a game based on the old and fun game of PacMan with a Dracula-theme. Plays in any Java-enabled browser and is quite fun! The game is in Swedish, but that should not stop non-English speaking people from playing since it's not that much text.

The aim of this project is to develop a framework to be used in the study of certain aspects of game theory (in particular how accurately game theory can be used to predict coalition formation.)

GECCO (Game Environment for Command and Control Operations) is a strategy game built in java. It has a very simple graphical interface but allows for the use of standard pixel-based image formats as maps and is easy to modify and extend.

Note: Golems has moved to GitHub. https://github.com/sambayless/golems *** Golems is a 3D recreational physics simulator. Build robots, spaceships, clocks, catapults or cannons. Add sensors, timers, switches, motors. Give it a brain. Take the wheel and pilot your machine yourself. Build anything.

A set of games and other applications for the Hoppolek platform, a research project aimed at giving gravely handicapped children a possibility to move and play, while also helping to strengthen their bone structure and normalize their muscle tonus.

Höken's Calculator (Swedish: Hökens Kalkylator) is a program developed by Gunnar Axelson (Höken). The program aims on providing a simple, multi-platform compatible, building points calculator for the browser game The-West. (This application isn't in any way supported, effected or developed by InnoGames GmbH). Currently the newest version is 1.1. Hökens Calculator is free, and opensource licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3!

Yet another Sudoku game.

A set of classes and tools aimed at making it easier to develop MIDlet games (J2ME MIDP 2, for cellullars, PDA:s...) Classes include extended sprites and maps, tools will be a mapeditor and a spriteanimator.

OAS is an application server for building online, cross-platform, multiplayer/user game applications and provides developers with a framework for handling client/server communication, handling and executing application logic, and multiple client types.

A simple Minecraft mod for Science and Technology. Technotype's first Minecraft mod. (alpha)

Java version of Stellarium.

Trivbot is a a multilingual quiz/trivia bot for IRC channels. It is written in java so it can run on multiple platforms. A question is sent to the IRC channel and the text in the channel scanned for a string that matches one of the accepted answers.

XPilotPanel is open-source cross-platform meta server browser, client and server launcher, configuration editor for recent versions of XPilot of almost all branches.

Gridarta is an open source (GPL) Map Editor for MMORPGs. Gridarta currently supports Angelion, Crossfire and Daimonin.

PHP5-based platform. Additional support for Java/C# is to be expected later on.

JPlatform is a collection of some handy or semi-useful java-based applications and hacks that I have done. They include a Content Management System, a guestbook, an application to keep track of your movies etc. Have fun! :)

jTarot is a tarot personal advisor. jTarot will do a "reading" for you when you need advice. A reading displays a number of cards and then describes what these cards mean. You take the reading and apply the meanings of the cards to your situation.