GSokoban home page

Description

GSokoban is a version of Sokoban for GNOME and Linux/UNIX. It looks like this, but you should really download it and try for yourself. Features include:

• It is free software, and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
• Multiple image sets. (Ten sets included)
• Multiple map sets. (Currently seven sets (471 levels) included)
  • Default, 90 maps, Level 1-50 Copyright (c) 1982 Thinking Rabbit Inc, Japan
  • DimitriAndYorick, 61 maps, Copyright (c) Jacques Duthen
  • Howard, 100 maps, Copyright (c) Howard Abed
  • Sasquatch, 50 maps, Copyright (c) David W. Skinner
  • Yoshio1, 52 maps, Copyright (c) Yoshio Murase
  • Yoshio2, 40 maps, Copyright (c) Yoshio Murase
  • sokogen-990602, 78 maps, Copyright (c) Howard Abed
• Scoring based on pushes or moves.
• Unlimited undo function.
• Saves solutions so you can review them at a later time using the built-in playback function.

Sokoban is a puzzle game invented in Japan 1982 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi, the president of Thinking Rabbit Inc. The goal is to push a number of boxes to special spots in a maze, without getting stuck against walls or in corners.

News

Saturday 2 September 2006

Nothing new really, except for a change of web hosting. http://ndap.net/gsokoban/ is the new home for GSokoban.

Tuesday 14 March 2000

After a way too long delay, here is finally version 1.0.

• Several memory leaks are fixed.
• The game area is always centered, and the window can no longer be made smaller than the game area.
• Russian translation from Igor Plekhov.
• New graphics set "budge" from Nat Pryce.

Saturday 31 July 1999

Version 0.60 this time:

• Rewritten preferences dialog.
• Rewritten score dialog.
• Optional toolbar.
• Misc bug fixes.
• Map sets are now stored in zip files.
• 271 new maps in five map sets.

Saturday 19 June 1999

The time has come for version 0.30. Changes this time:

• Removed the hard-coded map limit of 17 rows by 20 columns. Now GSokoban resizes automagically when needed.
• New map set "howard" with 100 new levels sent in by David McGrath.
• Fixed some map parsing bugs affecting levels 15, 16, 29, 48-50 and 90, discovered by David.
• Some other misc bug fixes.
• A lot of stuff from Tomi Ollila:
  • Improvements to the image loading. GSokoban now falls back to simpler graphics when necessery, and also emits proper GUI error messages.
  • New image set "pinky24".
  • Support for a different pixmap when object/box is over a goal.
  • Player can now face the direction he goes in, if such pixmaps exist.

Wednesday 02 June 1999

GSokoban 0.20 released, with the following new features:

• Undo functionality, implemented by Olivier Tharan.
• French translation, also by Olivier Tharan.
• More wall types, and a new graphics format.
• New graphics. xsoko20 and xsoko36 from XSokoban, and b_and_w_28x28 (a modification of b_and_w_30x30 from XSokoban) from Tomi Ollila. New screenshots are up.

Sunday 30 May 1999

First version released. Everything is new!

Download

• gsokoban-1.0.tar.gz (315 kb)