Open Source Linux Frameworks

RCBot2 An open source GPL bot framework for HL2 Orange Box Mods ONLY

FIFE is a cross platform 2D game creation framework written in C++ with Python bindings. It's designed to be flexible enough to support a wide variety of 2D game types but specializes in 2D isometric type views.

Asphyre, also known as Platform eXtended Library, is a cross-platform framework for developing video games and scientific applications in Delphi, and FreePascal/Lazarus. The framework provides facilities for real-time rendering of graphics (using DirectX, OpenGL or Software Renderer), text output, mathematics (including vectors and matrices) and networking communication, among other features. It also supports singleboard devices such as Raspberry PI, Intel Galileo, BeagleBone Black and others with features like GPIO, SPI, I2C and so on, along with external displays, sensors and other peripheral devices.

Project created to help the process of develop a game or an interactive application. Have some OpenGL, CGFX and OpenAL abstraction layers, a lot of matrix and vector operations and a simple simulation system to do animation and smooth interpolation.

Evver Games is an open source project that contains an AJAX web renderer and framework for creating card games; along with the card games Golf and No Peeking.

OpenRTS is an open source realtime strategy game. It features isometric graphics, networked multiplayer and single-player scenarios. The game is being developed using Python and SDL. The game runs on at least Linux, Windows and Mac.

TnC (The Next Coming) is a set of C++ classes that aims to use "The 4th Coming" (t4c) game datas with SDL library. The TnC classes can be used to extract and get the 4th coming sprites as SDL Surfaces. There's also classes to display the original map

Magic Lantern is a framework for developing multimedia applications. It is designed to be a cross-platform solution for multiple targets such as desktops, game consoles, mobile devices and set-top boxes.

Strasheela is a constraint-based music composition system. The user defines music theories by sets of compositional rules and the system creates music which complies with these theories. User-interface is the programming language Oz.

sql2diagram converts sql scripts to diagrams in the XML format dia, which can be viewed and further maintained with the dia drawing program. It is a good help for the documentation of a database structure. It provides HTML output as well.

LOVE is a free 2D game engine which enables easy game creation in Lua.

FreeWPC is a software framework for writing new software for 1990's Bally/Williams pinball machines. The framework allows you to build your own ROM images, define your own game rules, incorporate dot matrix animations, design lamp shows, and so on.

Icarus Scene Engine is a cross-platform, CLS-compliant 3D framework, integrating open source APIs into a cohesive all-open-source, all .NET solution. For Windows, MacOSX & Linux. Uses OpenTK, OpenGL, OpenAL APIs for graphics and audio. Runs on Mono/.NET. Links to FFMpeg for streaming video, and FreeType as a temporary conversion mod to bring fonts into a native XML format. Binary builds of Icarus will be infrequent, roughly every 18 months or so, the GIT code updates regularly on a weekly or twice-weekly basis (or faster if there are urgent issues).

Pyzzle is a cross-platform game engine for creating large-scale, 2D Myst-like adventure games. The engine supports 2D panoramas, features an intuitive design mode, and allows users to download content from the internet. Pyzzle is written using Pygame.

The Gamebook Engine is the first free, cross-platform engine for writing gamebooks, such as the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series, or the "Lone Wolf" series. TGE can interpret scripts that use the "Hyena" gamebook format.

JavaScript, CSS, and a bare minimum of image data come together to provide a card game framework for the web. To start, a solitaire game has been implemented on the framework. Future plans include AJAX support for multiplayer games.

Abstract Laboratory for Education & Science – 6 Java frameworks for rapid development of GUI applications/applets. Includes plots, unified access to Swing components and super-rapid development of “labs" (typical educational/research applications)

BZK is a set of tools to help creating games for mobile devices. Graphics are simple but enough to create good games. This suit maybe not be suitable for very intensive games or near-photorealistic graphics. For everything else, welcome.

Cherokee is a fully extensible and scriptable automation engine for any and all java applets. To make it work for your favorite java applet the most you have to do is write is two classes.

CoPP is an object-oriented framework for developing algorithms for robot path planning. One of of the design goals is to make it easy to make comparisons between various path planning algorithms.

DominoBot is a project for a simple IRC framework. It is currently a simple yet functional Domino game bot for IRC. It currently allows arbitrary piece (stones) numbers and multi session support. The game states are broadcast to the lobby. Uses colors to identify the player who layed each stone. It is a case study to create a framework for quick development of turn-based sessions, such as games, voting, meeting and etc. Uses PircBotX (redistributed - you do not need to download it). Pure J2SE. Java 6.0 compliant. GPL v3 license.

Elysion Frameworks are a powerful, yet leightweight cross-platform multimedia library to help create games or graphical applications. The frameworks are splitted in three branches: ElysionKronos, ElysionLegacy and ElysionMobile.

Enthusiasm is a software framework to be implemented in support to the creation and production of drama-based information presentations. The framework consists of off-line editors and real-time applications.

PHP library of functions for querying gameservers of varying protocols and displaying gameserver information in HTML format. Easily extensible to support additional games/protocols. Currently requires PHP5, though PHP4 support is in active development.

This software allows a MUD server to be run as a Jabber bot. Users can then play the MUD using their Jabber client instead of a MUD client or telnet. This relieves the MUD server from having to handle user chat as users can chat in Jabber instead.