Gaming Daily A-Z

Settlers of Catan is a popular board game. In today's terms it can be described as very 'social' thanks to its trade mechanic, which can lead to exploitation, corruption, deception... all that fun stuff. There are a few open source implementations of the game rules, some of which I mentioned years ago and with two of them being updated recently, I decided to revisit them. First, a few fun facts in comparable table form, further below you'll find screenshots, impressions and feature lists. Enjoy! If you're looking for somebody to play against, why not try the #freegamer IRC channel? :) Thanks for hiponboy's (of SumWars fame) help at testing games and collecting data! Game Platform Activity © Infringement ™ Infringement Compilable? Pioneers (pio) C, GTK+ active Hex-tiles look suspicious None found Yes (./configure && make) Java Settlers of Catan (jsettlers2) Java active Yes ("Gorillaz" character portrait file in resources) Yes ("Settlers ...

Solitaire Settlers of Catan Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Ca-Tan Ca-Tan Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Settlers Ca-Ca-Ca-Ca-Tan Nettlers So we have now at least five working games 'inspired' by the board game "Die Siedler von Catan" hosted on SourceForge.net : Solitaire Settlers of Catan 1.0 (new release), Pioneers 0.12.2 (new release), Settlers3D , Nettlers (Win only at the moment) and jCatano . No problem really, it's a great game and the projects have something individual in each of them. I enjoyed test-playing Nettlers via Wine . I was surprised by a well self-explaining interface. (Other candidates on the list are rather unclear about how to do what.) Yes, these are the controls. No kidding. Stephen M. Cameron released Word War vi 0.08 , a retro-looking, good-sounding (98% self-made, CC-BY-SA 2.0/3.0 sounds/music) Sopwith-ish/Side...