Igor Galochkin's games page

In my spare time I write small freeware games, some of which are here for you to download. Source code is included with the archives.

My freeware games

Screenshot	Title, description	Download links
	STICK FIGURE STRATEGY (in development, 90% complete) A turn-based strategy with completely deterministic battles, which allows quite a deep level of tactical planning. Full description (design document) I develop this game in a team with Tobias Maas.	1.5 MB sourceforge.net
	HYPERMAZE (in development, 60% complete) A simple ego-shooter where you move inside a 4-dimensional maze. No fake, real 4d.	5.8 MB sourceforge.net
	GHOST COMMANDER 1.7 A remake of Pac-Man game where the Eater (round yellow mouth) collects corns in a maze while a team of Ghosts tries to capture him. But here you can play for ghosts, too! Ghosts are controlled in the same way as units in real-time strategy.	1.3 MB sourceforge.net download.com
	STRATEGIC BILLIARD 1.2 In this billiards simulator you stop the time and use various magic. Take a big hammer and hit in the center of the table, set up a fan and a few reflectors, lure balls with a magnet. Use your creativity to make the balls collide as many times as possible before you pocket them.	2.5 MB download.com freewarefiles.com caiman.us sourceforge.net
	MINEFIELD 6D 1.9 An extended remake of Minesweeper, where you search for boms on a field. You never thought the field can be 3-dimensional, 4-dimensional or even 10-dimensional. An interactive tutorial and a smart system of cell-highlighting will help you survive your search for bombs.	340 KB download.com freewarefiles.com
	SIXTIS 1.4 A generic version of Tetris where you can adjust the geometry of shapes. Try monstrous 8-tile shapes, stuff shapes into a 3-cell wide well, or play a pure sixtis - tetris with only 6-block shapes.	86 KB geocities.com

My java applets

(Java applet is a small program that runs inside a web page. It is somewhat similar to flash animations. To run java applet you usually don't need any special software installed. You just need to open the webpage and click on the applet to start playing. In Windows XP SP2 you will need to 'allow to show ActiveX content' each time you open the page. Java applets run better in Internet Explorer than in Firefox)

Screenshot	Title, description	Source
	SCRABBLE 3D A scrabble game where you place words along x-, y-, and z- axis.	java source
	HYPER MAZE Random mazes, you can set number of dimensions between 2 and 11.	java source

Freeware games on the web

Archives of freeware games

>> | >> - Older games free downloads (DOS, Win95)
>> - Extremely large collection of links to free old games (in Russian)
>> - many puzzles and logical games by Ishihama Yoshiaki
>> - links to many free games (e.g. XCOM, Battle Isle clones)
>> - Huge collection of free games (Freeware World Team), maybe the largest one of what I've seen
>> - Java games listing
>> - Free games at Alex-Soft.net
>> - GameHippo freeware games
>> - Ytanium freeware games
>> - NoNags free software and games
>> - Acid Play freeware games
>> - Freewarefiles.com
>> - Download.com

remakes of Dune 2

>> - Dune Legacy
>> - Dune 2: The Maker by Stefan Hendriks
>> - Dune 2: The Sleeper Has Awakened by Jesse Krizik
>> - Dune IV by Vlad Demjanishin

remakes of Civilization

>> - C-evo by Steffen Gerlach
>> - The Clash of Civilizations
>> - Freeciv

remakes of X-Com

>> - XCOM - Project Colonisation
>> - Necrotech
>> - Project Xenocide
>> - X-Force: Fight for Destiny by Christian Reich
>> - Aussie Defence Squad by Byron Schubert
>> - Invasion 2021

Other strategic freeware games

>> - Battle for Wesnoth
>> - War in Russia
>> - The Ur-Quan Masters

Math-related games

>> - Math Puzzles Collection
>> - 4D Maze (by Calvin Ashmore)
>> - Upside Down Typing (by Melinda Green)
>> - 4D TicTacToe (by Sean Bridges)
>> | >> - 4D Rubik (by Don Hatch and Melinda Green)
>> - 5D Rubik cube (by Charlie Nevil and Roice Nelson)
>> - "playing" electro-Guitar, real fun!
>> - Mazes collection
>> - 4D design
>> - 4D links
>> - 4D Maze game by John McIntosh
>> - Maze covering puzzle
>> - Enormous collection of links to mazes (Walter Pullen)
>> - Minesweeper on a 3D Sphere
>> - Kodo, a unique puzzle where you eat oppents pressing a single button

Other games

>> - Collaborative games: player must look at the screen of the friend's
computer
>> - Wireframe animals game
>> - AI Pengo (by Martin Rebas) - best java game I have ever seen on the web.
>> - 3D stereogram pong (by Martin Rebas)
>> - Reiner Prokein's site with his freeware games and sprites
>> - Desktop Tower defense - addictive game were you place turrets to shoot out monsters
>> - BGprime - site about Backgammon

Game development

Forums, communities, associations

http://www.gamasutra.com
http://www.gamedev.net
http://www.gignews.com
>> - AI in games
>> - Interactive Intelligence Labs at National University of Singapore
>> - GameDaily magazine
>> - Edge game magazine
>> - Game Developer magazine
>> - International Game Developers Association
>> - DevMaster
>> - Garage Games
>> - Game design documents
>> - Virtual worlds resource Terra Nova
>> - Massively Multiplayer Network Stratics
>> - MMORPGdot: news about online games
>> - Mayang's free texture library
>> - Free game textures
>> - Free sound effects and music loops library
>> - http://www.gamedev.ru - The largest site for game developers in Russia
>> - http://gamedeveloper.ru/ - russian journal for game developers
>> - The Daily Telefrag - game development news, in Russian
>> - The Forge - game development forum
>> - game publishers list
>> - Indiegamer game development forum
>> - Association of shareware professionals
>> - ShareWareRUS community
>> - RSDN (Russian software developer network)
>> - Realprogramming - Russian resource on programming
>> - Game Tutorials (C++,Win32, DirectX, OpenGL)
>> - Toymaker
>> - AI for games forum on gamedev.ru (in Russian only!)
>> - MirGames

C++

>> - List of good books on C++ (in Russian)
>> - AI for games forum on gamedev.ru (in Russian only!)
>> - MirGames

GUI libraries

>> - GLOW toolkit for building better GUI with GLUT
>> - GLUI - a UI library for GLUT/freeGLUT/openGLUT
>> - CEGUI - GUI building library
>> - FreeGLUT
>> - FLTK - cross-platform GUI toolkit with built-in GLUT emulation

DirectX

>> - Code samples on Codesampler.com
>> - tutorial on Ultimagegameprogramming.com
>> - DirectX in Delphi (Russian only)

Java

>> - Java games programming tutorial
>> - Java developers site

Sites about AI and computer science

>> - Project BlueBrain: simulating the whole human brain on a supercomputer
>> - links on AI
>> - AI and CPU sci lab at MIT
>> - Large AI project CYC
>> - Emotional AI
>> | >> - educational links on computer science and AI
>> - site about weak-AI with chat robot Alan
>> | >> | >> | >> - russian sites about AI
>> - lections and materials for Computer Science dept of Moscow State University