Open Source Role-Playing Games (RPG)

Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time games, providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients like our MORPG Stendhal. Our engine Marauroa uses Java and SQL for hosting hundreds of players on a solo host. Stendhal is a fun friendly and free multiplayer online adventure game with a huge and rich world. With hundreds of NPCs and different quests, features like the Travel log and achievement system keep track of progress. Thousands of creatures are ready to fight, above and below ground, and as players level up they can compare themselves on a detailed stats website. The engine Marauroa provides a simple way of creating games on a portable and robust server architecture. Marauroa manages the client server communication and provides an object orientated view of the world for game developers. It handles database access in a transparent way to store player accounts, character progress and the state of the world

Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, and MacOS/X. It renders with OpenGL and features GLSL shaders, CG shaders, deferred rendering, dynamic shadows, bullet based physics library, terrain engine, skeleton based animation meshes, exporter for Blender, portals, etc...

[Project Dormant until 2008]Shadows Rising is a browser based RPG written in PHP, Javascript, and XHTML. MySQL/PostgreSQL supported. The core engine will allow users create unique RPGs by adding new items, classes, terrain maps to Game Modules.

Feud2000AD is a clone of the old game Feud.

The Quantum Game Library (QGL) for PHP aims to centralise common game elements in a component library. Includes Map Computations for Grid/Hex maps, pluggable map generator, Artificial Intelligence algorithms, plugin system and more. Or it will :).

Multi-User Character Kingdom (MUCK) engine and client providing a first person view point 3D-world which can be created by users, and which uses a system to provide quick gameplay by slowly downloading Objects/Textures over time once in the world.

All Purpose Game Engine Core - A set of C++ classes that make developing all sorts of OpenGL games/applications easy, comfortable and manageable

RTS game engine contributions to Stratagus. RPG mode, first-person mode, underground areas and more are planned. A distribution of Stratagus with the contributions compiled in will also be released here.

Project Angela is a family of ruleset modeling language (RML) interpreter components written in python. It is intended to easily enable RML support for a variety of different simulation engines, game engines and MMO frameworks.

Multiplayer space strategy game written in PHP5 with the Zend Framework. User interface uses Javascript/AJAX for dynamic interaction. Players compete across a hexagonal map of 10,000 sectors, planets, stars and other locations through trade and combat.

Battle to Dawn is a unique framework for games to operate on. The framework is built to be flexible, yet stable enough to hold together without addons.

Black Rain, a Java-based RPG using a hex-tiled game map, with many different items available in-game. Black Rain will use an unique object-modification and combination engine to allow objects in the game to be combined, changed, and upgraded.

Blue Shift is a turn-based MMOG designed to be playable in any, modern browser. The game stresses community as much as gameplay and implictly supports squads, factions and alliances. ** Project Suspended Temporarily Due To Real Life :)

Burned Out is a MMOG settled in a parallel world with a ´bad result´ of the cuba crisis in 1962. Only a few people survived in bunkers and try to survive by trading, fighting, developing new technologies.

The COMPASS Engine is a framework for building online games. It aims to use existing web technologies (HTTP, XML, JS) to produce a MVC architecture following RESTful principles.

Un jeu de pirates entièrement en ligne.

An Open Source portable pure Java game library with example games, Swing-based sprite animation engine, deployment framework, and firewall tunneling networking. The code is documented in the book Advanced Java Game Programming by David Wallace Croft.

Dawn of the Titans is a project to provide basic softcode/hardcode snippets, advice, and documentation for BattleTechMUX players and staffers alike. This is of particular interest to BTMux coders and admins.

Distributed Fair Dice Roller is a Java component that provides online games with a set of fair dice. Clients each contribute to the dice results, and can verify that all rolls were random, fair, and no other player could cheat.

DOEDELS is a (multi- and) singleplayer adventure enigine written in java(j2se1.5 +). The project contains the games-engine and some editors to create your own 2d adventures. The Adventure will allow to mix the gameplay with some details of RPG- and strat

With the new name comes a new sourceforge address - go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/enginesofwar/ to find this project now!

Engines of War brings you nonstop RTT action from the first second of the game. It is inspired by DotA's gameplay, but free content on the Spring Engine! Developers, check the trac page: https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/enginesofwar/wiki/

Era of Mages is a realtime strategy game with many roleplaying aspects to it. It is inspired by Warcraft but provides players with many new and interesting features. The implementation is done with the pygame (Python+SDL) library.

Evening is a game engine based off of the open-sourced Quake 3 engine code. The Evning engine will have features like physics and per-pixel lighting and be perfect for commercial-quality game projects.

Evowar is the new codename for MaxtrixEngine. We are revisiting the previous idea and trying to unify all java game developers in a single project: Evowar, wich is a 2D Evolutive RTS Java Game.