GNU Task List
14. Games and Recreations
Video-oriented games that work with the X window system.
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Empire (there is a free version but it needs upgrading)
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An "empire builder" system that makes it easy to write various kinds of
simulation games.
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Improve GnuGo http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html, which is not yet very sophisticated.
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Network servers and clients for board and card games for which such
software does not yet exist.
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A Hierarchical Task Network package which can be used
to program play the computer's side in various strategic games.
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A game like Mill/Nine Men's Morris.
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Write imitations of some popular video games:
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Space war, Asteroids, Pong, Columns.
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Defending cities from missiles.
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Plane shoots at lots of other planes, tanks, etc.
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Wizard fights fanciful monsters.
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A golf game.
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Biomorph evolution (as in Scientific American and The Blind
Watchmaker).
We do not need rogue, as we have hack.