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SoftBoard Games: Free, Commercial, and Abandoned Computer Version of Board and Card Games with Computer AI (Artificial Intelligence) Opponents with Screen Shots
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Try this board game price search engine: www.boardgameprices.comFormat: Game program name Location of a file like a link or description of location Author(s): BGG ID: Publisher: AI strength:   random (makes legal moves) beginner (makes strategic moves) advance (better than average players) tournament (competes with ranked players) champion (top ranked player) Interface: Crude Basic Average Good Professional Operating Systems: Web Browser based Flash Java OSX Windows Unix/Linux Palm OS Windows Mobile Symbian OS RIM BlackBerry Linux mobile Windows Mobile Software Types: stand alone client connects to a central server client connects to a your own (local) server online browser based Licenses: Free Free, open source Commercial Commercial Demo Variants available. ================================================================================== Learn how to play the games in this list by watching video tutorials: The Definitive List of Board Game Videos and Interactive Tutorials http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/23763================================================================================== A guild for devlopers, hobbyists, and people interested in converting board games to computer games has been opened. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/guild/458================================================================================== Why I put solitaire games in a list of games with an AI: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/8323/item/781391#item7...5-16-09 This list is now alphabetical -- The list has grown too big and people keep putting duplicate entries because they can't find games. what's new > http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/153947
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Posted Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:12 am
Edited Thu May 28, 2009 3:48 pm
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Excutable, complied version by PC game author > http://www.george.crawshay.com/index.shtml
Direct link > http://www.george.crawshay.com/games/BREAKWAY.zip
Boardgame publisher's [outdated] info on the older version of the computer game http://www.fbgames.co.uk/games/ba/resources/ba-doc.htm
Author(s): George Crawshay
Board Game Geek ID:
Publisher: Fiendish Board Games
AI strength: advanced
Interface: Crude
Operating Systems: Windows
Software Type stand alone
Licenses: Free
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need to use DOSbox if you want to play it in windowed moded and not full screen.
Instructions by the author:
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Your first question is `Do you want a specific random seed?'. If you say yes to this, you are asked for a number, and if after playing the game you want to start another one with exactly the same starting conditions you can do so by using the same number again.
Next you choose the number of players and your colour, and then you have the option of either selecting your bikes' initial move factors or accepting a completely random choice by the computer. When selecting your own you will first choose whether you want Bike 1 to use 3 or 4 factors and then input the individual factors for each bike. In each case you need to input only 3 out of 4 or 2 out of 3 - the computer will produce the last one automatically.
From then on it's just a matter of reading the other players' moves and responding to prompts for your own moves. The program pauses after every move - just hit any key to nudge it forward. When you input your own, press the RETURN key once you're sure it's correct.
Display: The bicycles are all shown in their proper team colours and positions, and their rank in the team is displayed at their rear with the corresponding number of pixels, i.e. one to four (O.K., I realise that this is not ideal but the size of the screen does rather limit the options, and you soon get used to it!).
The track is represented as a large square with 11 positions on each side, the same as a Monopoly board. START is at the south-west corner, the FINISH line being at the top of position 100 at the north-east corner. SPRINT 1 is the bottom of position 34, SPRINT 2 being 40 positions later, i.e. the same place but no. 74. Each square on the track is numbered, and as the game advances the numbers change upwards by 40 to reflect the real positions of the bicycles. In the case where a square of track is occupied by two or more bicycles in different stages (i.e. bicycles lapping others) the number in the square will always correspond to that of the leading cycle.
When a bicycle is lapped it moves several places towards the outside of the track and acquires a short white line at its rear as a distinguishing mark.
Once eight bicycles have passed the winning post all the scores are presented to show a resumen of the position of each bike in the individual sprints AND the totals for each bike and team, together with a closing remark (sometimes rude) on your performance.
That's it. Good luck!
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Board Game: Bridge
[Average Rating:7.53 Overall Rank:132]
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Board Game: Carrom
[Average Rating:7.02 Overall Rank:516]
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Board Game: Chess
[Average Rating:7.05 Overall Rank:218]
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Board Game: Clans
[Average Rating:6.63 Overall Rank:501]
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http://www.gametableonline.com/
You can play this one against 2 to 5 AI opponents. It's free for 2 weeks, along with another dozen or so games. After that, a fee is involved. I've been wanting to spring this one on my gaming group. Playing here, has imprinted the dynamics of the game in my mind, so I'll have no trouble at all teaching this to others. I don't have much trouble beating the AI opponents, but I don't know if it's my brilliance, or (more likely), the AI weakness. Still quite fun, though.
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Board Game: Diam
[Average Rating:6.34 Overall Rank:2743]
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Posted Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:23 am
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