GGZ Gaming Zone
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| Developed for: | Online |
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| Release: | 0.0.14.1 |
| Released: | February 17th, 2008 |
GGZ Gaming Zone is an online gaming service as well as a framework for writing online games. The project was founded on January 10, 2000.[1] The project has several different libraries licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.[2]d The latest stable release of GGZ Gaming Zone is 0.0.14.1 on February 17th, 2008.
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[edit] Infrastructure Overview
The purpose of GGZ Gaming Zone is to provide the hosting and libraries for developers to easily develop online games.
[edit] Clients
These are called core clients. They're simply chat clients that have the ability to play games. There are several different kind of clients that used SDL, GTK+, or part of the KDE and Gnome environments.
[edit] Games
GGZ Gaming Zone supported many card and board games, as well independent games that come from other game projects. Projects like GNOME Games and KDE Games also used the infrastructure.
[edit] Independent
- Freeciv - A game inspired by Civilization.[3][4]
- Widelands - A remake of Settlers II.[5][6]
- GNU Go - GNU Go is a program that play the ancient board game, Go.[7]
- Tenes Empanadas Graciela - A TBS game like Risk.
[edit] References
- ↑ Historical account of the GGZ of the project
- ↑ The copyright file for one of the GGZ packages at Debian packages
- ↑ Freeciv technical information for GGZ
- ↑ GGZ's factsheet on Freeciv
- ↑ GGZ's Widelands page
- ↑ Widelands' guide to playing online
- ↑ GGZ's factsheet on GO/GMP
