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gGo is a Java client for IGS Panda Net that provides you with a graphic interface for playing Go, observing, and communicating with other players. gGo is also a full featured SGF editor that allows you to review and edit games. gGo can be used as an interface to play Go against a computer program like GNU Go.

Go is an ancient board game, very common in Japan, Korean and China.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Java Runtime Environment 1.3 or newer.

The GGZ Gaming Zone is a way for people to play a variety of games across the Internet with both human and computer opponents. Similar to other such endeavors,
GGZ supports multiple rooms where players can login and chat across a table while they play their favorite games. GGZ is working actively on supporting other Free Software games and their multiplayer needs.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: You need gettext and expat installed.
Depending on the packages, also Gtk+ 2.6, GNOME 2.8, KDE 3.x, SDL 1.2 (plus ttf and mixer), Pygame 1.6, libDB or MySQL or PgSQL or SQlite or libdbi, PHP, ncurses, readline, RSVG, Java, and mucho mucho más ;) See QuickStart.GGZ for more information. Use getggz.sh to get an automated GGZ installation without much hassle into your home dir.

GGZCards is a GTK-based card-playing game. It supports a number of trick-taking card games, including Bridge, Euchre, Forty-Two, Hearts, La Pocha, Spades, Suaro, Sueca, and Whist. It is networked and supports multiplayer games and games against the AI. A modular AI system is provided, but currently only Spades has a competitive AI.

It is playable only under GGZ, the GGZ Gaming Zone.

The screenshot is of the development version of the game, which also supports player statistics.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: GTK, GGZ libraries, and a GGZ client

Gillo is a two players game in a virtual reality environment. Players are cars, moving inside an ellipsoidal playground trying to catch a ball and throw it through a goal. The goal is placed in the center of the ellipsoid and is as long as the mimimum diameter. The goalkeeper tryes to catch the ball before it reaches the goal.

In order to catch and fire the ball, players have an orientable magnet with invertable charge. To make things tricky, powerups are spread randomly throughout the playground allowing gravity inversion, field rotation and other funny effects.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Binary release requires SDL-1.2 and OpenGL. To compile from source release you'll net Ode and Plib too.

GF1 is a computer program for playing the 2 player boardgame GIPF. The program has a nice and easy to use graphical user interface. You can play against another human (but the real game is better for that), against the computer, or let the computer play against itself. The computer player is good enough to beat even the best human players at the moment (but it doesn't always win :-)). The faster you computer, the better it plays. But even on a pentium 60, the computer can be hard to beat.

License: free

"Gish isn't your average hero, in fact he's not your average anything.. see Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend Brea goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open man hole and pulls Brea into the ground below. Following Brea's calls for help Gish suddenly finds himself in the subterranean sewers of Dross, a long forgotten city filled with twisting corridors, evil traps and some of the most demented creatures imaginable. With his gelatinous structure as his only means of defense Gish must follow the echoing cries of his damsel in distress deep into the earth bellow. What freakish creatures dwell in this subterranean land? Who is Brea's captor? And just how far down does the rabbit hole go? Life isn't easy when you're a 12 pound ball of tar... "

License: commercial ($19.95)

Additional System Requirements:

• SDL
• OpenAL
• Ogg Vorbis