Archive for the ‘Board Games’ Category
Posted on Jul 7, 2009 07:44:09 AM
ScoreSheet is an application designed to manage league based sports administration. League tables are automatically calculated from results entered, with instant review of team results. Creates a fully hyperlinked web site from a single button click.
Review fixtures for teams, venues and game officials. Export data to spreadsheet for analysis and graphical presentation. Share data with other applications via a rich XML interface.
Suitable for all sports which are based upon league participation involving teams and individuals who play round-robin games against each other to produce winners and losers, champions and relegations.
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Posted on Jul 7, 2009 07:38:24 AM
Out of the Park Baseball 9 is an award-winning baseball simulation that GameSpot called “the best baseball management sim out there”. OOTP offers unparalleled flexibility in creating your own baseball world. Play solo with a baseball world of your own creation: make a simple, 8-team league, play a typical major league game with 2000 rosters, create a historical league with real players from any year between 1871 and 2007 or build an enormous world with baseball leagues in multiple countries. For the ultimate challenge, join an online league and test your mettle against other human players!
OOTP 9 is the closest most people can get to being the general manager of a real baseball team. Handle GM tasks like drafts, trades, scouting, waivers, team finances and personnel. Negotiate player contracts. Or, dive into the more hands-on management and set your team’s lineups, pitching staffs, and in-game strategy. You can oversee your league at a high level, or play out each game, managing pitch by pitch.
Players in OOTP are rated across multiple skills, and include individual personalities and custom faces created with FaceGen technology. OOTP players progress realistically over time. Try to build a team through the draft, or try to sign big free agents to put you over the top! OOTP also has a powerful news engine that generates personal messages and news articles. Behind all of this is an incredibly powerful statistical engine that tracks an enormous number of statistics for each player in your world. Want to know how your star hitter is doing against righties with runners in scoring position? No problem!
OOTP 9 also has a vibrant and helpful user community, and an active one that creates a vast number of user customizations that you can use to further improve your gaming experience, including special roster sets, logos, player images, and more.
OOTP offers a fully-functional 10-day demo. Give it a try!
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Posted on Jul 7, 2009 07:29:32 AM
This is a two-player Backgammon game, that is, it has no human-against-computer mode. The two players can be sharing one computer’s keyboard, mouse and monitor, or can be using two computers networked together over the Internet or any network with TCP/IP. No separate server is required – the game is independent. The game includes a help file suitable for players new to Backgammon and experienced players alike. Sound effects are also included with the game.
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Posted on Jul 7, 2009 07:27:17 AM
Orneta Checkers is the classic board game of Checkers on your Windows Mobile based Smartphone. Challenge your strategic skills with this relaxing game. Now you can enjoy the game of checker anywhere you may be, directly from your cellular phone. The object of checkers is simple, capture all of your opponents pieces by jumping them, or block them so that they cannot be moved. Your pieces may only move away from you, to a connected diagonal square that is unoccupied. If an opponents piece occupies a diagonally connected square, you may capture your opponents piece by jumping to the next diagonal space in the same direction if unoccupied. If you can move one of your pieces to the other end of the board, it will become a king, and can move forward and reverse.
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Posted on Jul 7, 2009 07:24:52 AM
Play online backgammon and become part of the world’s largest online backgammon community. Play65 has beautiful 3D graphics, good sound effects during play and a variety of knockout matches, swing games, sit-n-go, satellite and special tournaments.
Play65 is the best choice for backgammon novices and experts to play online backgammon, with over 4,000 game tables playing around the clock and you can create your own table and play with your friends.
Play65.com is currently the largest and most reliable online backgammon room in the world featuring the finest software, graphics, tournaments and bonuses. Play65 registered members enjoy 24/7 support, and an abundance of backgammon tournaments like sit-n-go, “swing”, satellites and grand monthly tournaments. There are over 1,000,000 registered players, multi-language support, multi-currency deposit options and a no-download Java play option for those who want a way to play quickly. The online backgammon game board is classy and created to resemble a real one, and the gameplay is intuitive and crisp. During gameplay players can chat with each other and use the doubling cube to increase the stakes. There game has are some sound effects which can be switched off easily. There are many other unique options and players can choose turbo games which play faster, high stakes games worth hundreds of dollars per match, play with different currencies (US dollars, Euro, UK Pounds) and more. New and exciting features are added constantly.
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Posted on Jul 7, 2009 07:22:20 AM
DzWords is probably the most flexible Scrabble-like game ever made. The game offers 6 different game modes and tons of different options or rules. It comes with complete English and French dictionaries and is playable locally or on the Internet. Everything can be customized, from the board configuration to the computer
AI. Standard, Duplicate, Blitz, Play-by-Email and Joker are some of the game modes. Advanced computer suggestion, unique game analysis module, angrams listings, advanced word search, custom dictionary are among the new features added to the second version of this award winning game. The game also comes with a totally new improved Internet lobby.
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Posted on Jul 7, 2009 07:20:04 AM
Daisy Reversi is a high-quality award-winning computer opponent for the well-known ancient board game Reversi (also known as Othello). You can select one of the wide range of complexity levels from very strong levels to easy levels, zero level and even negative levels, when the computer intentionally loses. Variable game board size (from 6×6 to 24×24 cells) is the Daisy Reversi extension of the classic Reversi with 8×8 board. Those who like to practice logic and have limited time will like to play on the smaller game board. Those who like such games as solitaire and have enough time will be pleased with game on the large board. Other features: realistic graphics, undo/redo moves, save/load positions, automatic complexity level changing, timers, position constructor, custom initial positions, statistics, autosave unfinished position on exit, user friendly interface, detailed help system, flexible logic and interface settings, color schemes, additional panels, optional and adjustable sound accompaniment, install/uninstall support, and many more.
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Posted on Jul 7, 2009 07:17:49 AM
Carl’s Classics is a game collection with 14 classic games like Chess, Backgammon, Checkers, Reversi, Pachisi and many more.
In spite of the simplicity of some of the games, they have been favorites through the centuries thanks to their many variations and endless entertainment possibilities. Many of the games offer the opportunity for both strategic and tactical thinking.
In Carl’s Crypto and WordPuzzle your knowledge of crosswords will be put to the test.
In the games for two or more players you can choose to play against an animated computer player, who’s skill level you can change, or play against another player on the same computer. You can also play those games against another player over the Internet or through a network.
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Posted on Jul 7, 2009 07:15:31 AM
Reversi (Othello) as it should be.
Beautiful 3D graphics, a huge range of computer opponents for all skill levels, online multiplayer play, replays, league and ladder competitions, and much more. Comes with 7 board sets, plus the ability to design your own 3D boards and pieces.
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Posted on Jul 7, 2009 07:12:31 AM
GoKnot is a complete Windows Go solution. Go (Japanese) is the oriental game aka Wei Qi (Chinese) and Baduk (Korean). GoKnot can be used for playing, both locally or on the Internet. It is also a tool for editing and analyzing games.
GoKnot as a playing tool:
* GnuGo 3.6 engine for playing included
* Analysis, best moves list, what if ..
* Hints during play
* It is modular and open. The engine can be replaced
GoKnot as a games/problems edition tool:
* Complete support of the SGF 4.0 standard
* Conversion of older SGF versions
* Edition of symbols, remarks, etc.
* Game trees edition capacities: extracting individual branches, merging, cropping trees, etc.
* Game maps!!
* Realistic boards with customizable board and stone bitmaps
* Splits game collections to multiple files
* Sketch gobans for testing on a copy
* Complete editable timing game records
* Easy annotation for SGF standards
GoKnot as an IGS client:
* Display hints while playing a game
* While playing you may ask “what if” questions
* While playing you may try variations on a sketch goban where the engine plays as your opponent
* Observing multiple IGS games in multiple boards
* You can observe up to 24 games simultaneously
* Storing the games with complete timing records
* Most of these features are not found in any other software
More features:
* Gobans can be floated, restored or resized by simple mouse clicks.
* GoKnot can be used as a debugger for developing GKE engines
* Board and stone textures can be created by the user
Install and uninstall:
* Friendly install and uninstall with support for updating previous versions
* Uninstall fully restores: erases any files installed and any registry keys created
* The program verifies its integrity making sure it is 100% virus free
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