Vassal Engine

VASSAL Engine

Developer(s)	The VASSAL Team.
Initial release	2003 (2003)

Stable release	3.2.16 / April 2, 2016 (2016-04-02)
Repository	sourceforge.net/p/vassalengine/svn/HEAD/tree/
Development status	Active
Written in	Java
Operating system	Any
Platform	Cross-platform
Available in	Multilingual (English and 6 other languages)
Type	Game engine
License	GNU LGPLv2+
Website	www.vassalengine.org

The VASSAL Engine is a game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board games, tabletop games and card games. It allows users to play in real time over a live Internet connection, and also by email (PbeM). It runs on all platforms, and is free, open-source software. For example, there is a Star Wars Miniatures module, where players can play with up to three others in a digital replica of the table-top game.

It is written in Java and is available from SourceForge under the LGPL open source license.^[1]

History

VASSAL began as VASL (Virtual Advanced Squad Leader), an application for playing Advanced Squad Leader.^[2]

Available modules

VASSAL modules exist for over 1000 games, some of which are listed here. A more comprehensive, but not exhaustive, list of modules exists on the VASSAL module site list.

Tabletops

V40k, a Warhammer 40,000 module. Perhaps the most played module now.
Battlefleet Gothic^[3]
Mordheim^[4]
Star Wars Tactics
Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game
Warmachine and Hordes^[5]

Boardgames

Card games

Copyright and licensing

In September 2008, Games Workshop issued a cease-and-desist order regarding V40k to Tim Davis, the team leader at that time.^[9] The module is still played.

Games Workshop has also issued a cease-and-desist order regarding Space Hulk.

References

↑ Official VASSAL Website
↑ R.Flaibani. "The Master and His Vassal". Retrieved 20 April 2015.
↑ Download Source for Battlefleet Gothic Module
↑ Mordheim Module Download
↑ Warmachine&Hordes Vassal Module Download
↑ Module Shadows over Camelot Download
↑ Playing Cards
↑ Module Site
↑ GW V40k Legal Action

External links

Game engines (list)

Free and
open-source

2D	Adventure Game Studio Beats of Rage Cocos2d Flixel Jogre KiriKiri libGDX Moai OHRRPGCE OpenFL ORX Pygame Ren'Py Stratagus Thousand Parsec VASSAL Xconq

2.5D	Aleph One Cube

3D	Away3D Blender Game Cafu Crystal Space Cube 2 Delta3D Dim3 GLScene Horde3D HPL 1 Irrlicht id Tech 3 id Tech 4 JMonkey OGRE Open Wonderland Panda3D Papervision3D Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker PlayCanvas PLIB Quake Quake II RealmForge Retribution Torque 3D

Mix	Allegro Construct Classic Godot Lightweight Java Game Library Spring Wintermute Engine

Proprietary

2D	Construct 2 Corona Clickteam Fusion GameMaker: Studio GameSalad M.U.G.E.N NScripter RPG Maker Southpaw Stencyl UbiArt Framework Vicious Virtual Theatre V-Play Zillions of Games

3D	4A Amazon Lumberyard Anvil Bork3D C4 Chrome Clausewitz Engine Creation CryEngine Crystal Tools Decima Diesel Dunia EAGL EGO Elflight Enforce Enigma Essence Flare3D Fox Frostbite Geo-Mod GoldSrc HeroEngine HydroEngine HPL 2-3 id Tech 5 id Tech 6 Ignite IW Jade Kinetica LS3D LithTech Luminous Studio LyN Marmalade Mizuchi MT Framework Outerra Panta Rhei PhyreEngine Q Real Virtuality REDengine Refractor Riot RAGE SAGE Serious Shark 3D ShiVa Silent Storm Source Titan TOSHI Truevision3D Unigine Unity Unreal Vision Visual3D XnGine X-Ray YETI Zero

Mix	Gamebryo Hybrid Graphics Kaneva Game Platform Metismo

Historical interest

Proprietary
middleware
(list)

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