Go Siege is a transformation of the ancient Chinese game of Go into a massively multiplayer online game in which hundreds of players can compete simultaneously. Go Siege is open-source, being licensed under the GNU General Public License.

News

2004-10-02: There is a bug in the 0.3 release. You can fix it by changing line 168 of <your-python-installation>/site-packages/gosiege/rules.py from if (libgain > 1): return True to if (libgain >= 1): return True.

2004-07-19: Go Siege 0.3 has been released. New features include revised rules, a chat sytem and bots. Read the Changelog and README for more information.

2004-04-04: The Go Siege Community Forums are ready for use.

2004-03-14: Go Siege 0.2 has been released. Changes since the last release include various bug fixes, two new game rules, documentation and a windows binary package.

Read Timothy's Blog for irregular development updates.

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Windows

The Monolithic Windows Distribution includes everything required to run the Go Siege client. If you are using Windows, this is probably the package you want. Be sure to read the installation instructions.

• Go Siege 0.3 Monolithic Windows Distribution

Source

If you already have the required software or you run a UNIX-like operating system, this is probably the package you want. Be sure to read the installation instructions

• Go Siege 0.3 Source as a .tar.gz archive.
• Go Siege 0.3 Source as a .tar.bz2 archive.
• Go Siege 0.3 Source as a .zip archive.

Packages

If you use Linux, your distribution probably uses some form of package management. If your system can use one of these packages, then you should it instead of installing from source.

• Go Siege 0.3 ebuild for Gentoo Linux. You can read the installation instructions here.

Requirements

Go Siege requires the following software to run:

• Python >= 2.2
• Twisted >= 1.1
• PyGTK >= 2 (not required by the server)

Go Siege should run on any UNIX-like operating system or Microsoft® Windows™ provided all the software listed above has been installed. Go Siege has been tested on Gentoo Linux, Fedora Core 2, Microsoft® Windows™ Me and Microsoft® Windows™ XP.

Feedback and Reporting Bugs

Please report bugs and file feature requests on Sourceforge.net Bug Tracker and e-mail me to bring them to my attention. Please send other suggestions or feedback to Timothy Stranex <timothy@stranex.com>.