MNG-supporting Games and Entertainment Applications

Games and Entertainment Applications with MNG Support

Applications listed here include games and game engines, screen savers, fractal generators, hobby programs, and so forth. Most of them either read or write MNG streams, not both.

All known MNG-supporting games and entertainment applications are listed, but Greg doesn't always hear about new ones right away. So if you don't see something here, also check Gerard Juyn's MNG application pages, particularly these:

generic MNG-supporting applications
Japanese MNG-supporting applications (and advocacy sites)
applications that use MNG peripherally

As with the PNG-applications pages, links to home WWW sites or to downloadable versions are provided where known. But if a link is broken, check the location and see if the page moved or if an updated version is available (and please tell Greg!). Relevant operating systems are printed in (parenthesized italics).

These are listed alphabetically, more or less:

AdvanceMAME [Andrea Mazzoleni et al.] (DOS, Win32/SDL, Linux/SDL) - version 0.58.0 and later; write-only; freeware (GPL) with source. (This is a ``port of the MAME, MESS, and PacMAME emulators for [fixed-frequency monitors,] arcade monitors and TVs, but also for normal PC monitors.'' MNG is supported as a ``video'' format for recording gameplay. Versions 0.58.0 through 0.61.1 also included the zmng recompression utility, which is now called AdvanceMNG and is distributed as part of the AdvanceSCAN package, listed on the converters page.)
AdvanceMENU [Andrea Mazzoleni et al.] (DOS, Win32/SDL, Linux/SDL) - version 1.17.0 and later; read-only; freeware (GPL) with source. (This is a graphical front end for AdvanceMAME, MAME, and other arcade emulators. It displays PNG images and MNG animations as thumbnails for launching various games.)
EasySok [Ralf Schmelter] (Unix/KDE3) - all versions? write-only; requires Qt, libmng and zlib; freeware (GPL) with source. (This is a version of the Sokoban puzzle-game. Played games may be saved as a sequence of PNGs [deprecated] or as a single MNG animation [preferred]. A sample MNG is available here [131k], albeit with the wrong MIME type.)
FreeSolitaire [Michael McCulloch] (Win32) - version 4.0 and later; read-only; uses libmng and zlib; free adware. (This is a suite of ``10 of the most popular and challenging card games.'' MNG support is actually used only for the animated ad banners.)
Geo Aze [Silverglint] (Win32) - all versions; read-only; uses libmng and zlib; commercial. (This is a geography game that uses a MNG animation for its spinning-globe logo and PNG for many of its map images, apparently.)
Glito [Emmanuel Debanne] (Unix/X, Win32) - all versions; write-only? requires FLTK, libmng, libpng, and zlib; freeware (GPL) with source. (This is an ``explorer of two-dimensional Iterated Function Systems'' [IFSes, one type of fractals]. It can produce both static images in PNG format and animated sequences in MNG format.)
Graal [Linux Cyberjoueurs] (Win32, Linux/X, Mac OS X) - version 2 and later; read-only; alpha support; uses libmng (version 3 only) and zlib; freeware. (This is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game [MMORPG] that uses PNG images for tiled artwork and widgets and MNG animations for emoticons.)
Pueblo/UE [Michael Roberts] (Win32) - version 2.60 and later; read-only; full alpha support (via the OS--currently Windows 98/ME/2k/XP only); freeware with source. (This is a ``multimedia MUD/MUSH/MOO/MUX (MU*) client,'' i.e., the user end of a multi-user, client-server gaming system. It can also act as a plain telnet client.)
TADS [Michael Roberts] (Win32) - version 2.5.6 and later (HTML TADS only); read-only; full alpha support (via the OS--currently Windows 98/ME/2k/XP only); freeware with source. (This is the ``Text Adventure Development System,'' a toolkit for creating interactive fiction similar to Adventure, Zork, etc. There is both a text-only version and an HTML-based version; the latter supports images and animations, including PNG and MNG. Note that the current development version, 3.0.4, does not yet include alpha or MNG support.)

Here are some related MNG pages at this site:

Last modified 14 March 2009.