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hi
is there any site or anything else that can be used for finding core engines for games?
i don't mean graphic or 3d engines.
what i mean is core of programms like chess, othello,...
i tried to make my own game engine but wjhat i find is it is very hard to make it from scratch and will not be as good as games are around right now.
i found so many gnu projects but they are complete programs and not just a algorithm or dll to use.
any help?
regards
Reza Behnood

Hiya Behnood.

Hope this is not wasting your time.

Are you looking for an engine, eg, something that you just provide graphics and some scripting, or for an AI-type process, eg a move/lookahead tree, pathfinding, etc?

There are several of both sorts of things around. Gamemakers (including GameMaker) for platforms, adverture/action, etc. Also tutorials and code on AI, from simple nodes/trees into some heavy stuff like neural networks.

Good place to get code to examine is http://www.sourceforge.com or http://www.freshmeat.com

And although google can spew out huge amounts of results, searches for things like AI tutorial or code or opensource AI or Artificial Intelligence will produce results.

If the above was useful, good. If not, someone with a more useful reply will be along soon.

EDIT:

Sorry, the above links should both be net, not com:

http://www.sourceforge.net
http://www.freshmeat.net

Additional links:

http://www.aiwisdom.com/
http://www.gamedev.net/

and "game AI" is a useful search term.

thanks for your information.

yes, i prefer a ready to use engine (like a dll) that i use for my own game and adding bells and whistels. a pulished graphical interface,... in short i'm not ready to deal with ai programming deeply. but if it is the only way i will do it.
for example, is there a dll for chess? i push the board data to it and it reaturns the next computer move with specified depth of analysis?

in meantime i start to reading those resources you introduced me:)
by the way i searched the google and also gamedev.net before without success.

regards
Reza Behnood

Hi Reza Behnood.

There is an opensource chess game called GNU CHESS available, I think from http://www.gnu.org/

It is written in C and the gameplay is good.

There are also heaps of sources for various games written in qbasic. and quite a few sites with the sources (can't remember the urls offhand).

Maybe those will help with getting a game engine in place. Don't know of game-specific dlls, sorry.

Success in your venture.

There's a few engines here: www.ambrosine.com/resource.html ..Pretty old place actually,some game engines are free,some are not?! Also has other bits n bats...
Man how do you do the links..Ah sod it..who CaReZ!!