This entry will be really short since I am coming to the end of my energy.

The first game is a real treat and that is jRisk, The Risk(tm) board game on a computer written in java, and there are maps that are different from reality as well. For use chemically inclined individuals there is even a periodic chart map! Can you image playing Risk for elements? This game can be found here, and I found it quite refreshing from my usual shooter games. Although there are some bugs in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms they will be worked out in short order.

The other two games that I have played recently are chess games. Both Brutal Chess and Dream Chess seem to be in development and are listed as beta, but I had a hard time telling which black pieces were where, because of the 3D shading, that i could not figure out how to lighten. These games are Open GL, and have good AI, although i could not figure out how to castle in Dream Chess, Brutal Chess allows you to drag your king ontop of the castle/rook and performs the castle operation automatically. Dream Chess allows various textures to be applied to the pieces, which I felt made distinguishing the opposing sides pieces even worse.

Brutal Chess has no real website, but the location to download the application is here.

Dream Chess has a ful blown Web site located here.

If you figure out how to lighten out the opposing pieces, so you can see them correctly then leave me a comment please. In the meantime I think I will let these programs get better before trying them again.

[tags]microface, open source, games[/tags]