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Games - Computer Games, Card Games, Board Games, Role Playing, Video Game, Puzzles, Party Games and more.
Board Games - Educational, Fantasy, Sports, Horror, Historical, Auction, Abstract, War & Politics and more. Come on in and discuss your favorite board games or find a new one to share with the family or your friends.
Assist - A play by email gaming aid, for MS Windows. A Game editor; a map editor; a unit editor. Shareware, $30 registration.
Colossus - Download a Java version of Avalon Hill's Titan boardgame. Currently "hotseat" play only.
CyberBoard - Board gaming system for playing board games by electronic mail. Graphically design the various parts of a board game on your computer, the players make their moves and exchange recorded versions of the moves with their opponents. Free download. For Windows.
GUB: the Generic Universal Boardgame - A Java 2 application that allows players to play almost any type of board game on their computer, using a simple text file with game piece descriptions, a GIF or JPG copy of a game board, and an optional set of graphics for the game pieces. Several game piece sets are distributed here, and others may be created by other people and distributed from elsewhere.
JET - Computer aide and PBEM tool for Europa series of WWII games. Supports many basic rules of the game system. Open source, Windows executable.
Wargame Rules and Software - GameMapr is a relatively simple map-making program for wargamers, "historically" oriented, rather than "fantasy" oriented. That is, it contains pre-built standard military symbols, rather than fantasy-type symbols. Windows shareware, download demo.