JGammon - Backgammon for Java

JGammon is a Backgammon client with nice graphics written in Java.
It allows a TCP-based network-game.
It supports saving and loading of board setups, undoing moves,
"secure dice" and has got an own chat client and a help system.
A computer player is included, stronger ones are being worked on.

Features

• Nice java-swing user interface, intuitive usage
• board setups can be saved in case you want to finish a started game at a later date.
• The players can not cheat. The dice values are negotiated with a secure dice protocol
• Connection to a gnu backgammon server is possible, so external AI is present.
• An integrated chat-client that announces new messages visually instead of audibly.
• The ability to undo moves till the other player has thrown the dice
• The board can be turned and flipped as you wish
• Moves of the remote partner are animated
• The history of the game can be displayed.

Screenshots

are available through SourceForge.

Download and Installation

Releases can be downloaded from SourceForge.

A nightly source packet can be downloaded directly from here. This tarball needs to be compiled, best is with "ant".

From time to time, a more recent ,yet not published, version of the binaries than at the release page is located here.

Though I work on the newer version, there is an update to release 1.0 available: JGammon.1.0.3.zip. It has some little improvements and a few minor bugfixes.

To install JGammon simply download JGammon-release.zip, unzip it to a directory of your choice. Then you can start it with

            java -jar JGammon.jar

or if you use the Windows operating system by executing jgammon.exe

Most OS provide a way to create a shortcut for this command.

Current work:

• For the next release (1.1) it will be possible to plug in different designs (and a couple of them will be provided).
• There will be an AI Player. Also, you can plug in your own AI players.

Future ideas

There are still some ideas that can still be implemented into this game:

• Integrate a client to the fibs network.

History

• Version released 2005-08-30: 0.9.26. This is beta to 1.0
• Version released 2005-09-12: 1.0.0. No longer beta.
• Version published 2006-06-01: 1.0.65. Beta for 1.1

Download from the sourceforge-page

Hosting

JGammon is hosted at