A 'VGA Planets' client for GNOME 'VGA Planets' is a play-by-email space conquest strategy game, it can be played by 11 players max. This game is being played by strategy fanatics all over the world for some years now, is very addictive and there are several servers on the Internet that host various kinds of this games.
GNOME War Pad (GWP for short), is a client program for this game, its GUI is designed to be very starchart-centric, giving the player as much visual information as possible. It will feature Python scripting and OpenGL battle simulations.