Awesome LAN Party Software

An awesome list with awesome software for awesome LAN parties and their organizers.

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Software

LAN Party Management

• DOTLAN Intranet – "das komplette Intranetsystem für die Ausrichtung einer Lanparty"
• LANSuite – "A Content Management System designed especially for the needs of LAN-Parties"
• LANager – "LAN party management web application"
• BYCEPS – "A tool to prepare and operate LAN parties (even under different brands), big (1,000+ attendees) and small, both online on the Internet and locally as an intranet system, for both organizers and attendees"
• LanHUB – LAN Event management system focused on player engagement and easy registration
• KRRU LAN-Party Management System - CMS (Content management system) for LAN-Parties. Everything you need to present and manage your event in a modern design.
• Lan2Play's Eventula Event Manager – Event Ticket & Management System with (automated) Tournament support and lots of features
• LanSurfer Intranet – "LanSurfer was a european portal for organizing LAN parties available around the Year 2000. This is the the ancient PHP intranet component that was available for LAN parties." historical
• LANshock – historical
• Lansite – "A web app for LAN parties designed to be a simple, central information hub for all attendees"
  • Lansite (Fork) – "Lansite Fork that optionally removes admin approval for posts"
• LAN – "Guest management/communication application for LANs (LAN parties)"
• WuTalLAN CMS - The custom website/CMS used for WuTalLAN/WupperLAN, built with PHP4 in 2001. A partial modernization is available.
• ploynt LAN Planner – "An interactive Lanparty venue planner: place tables and zones, escape routes, power circuits, network cables, switch ports and an extensive budget to calculate your aparty. All from the same plan. Includes a 3D view of the hall and a 22-point safety check. Free. No Login needed."

Server Management

• ansible-lanparty – "Collection of integrated Ansible roles used to run LAN events"
• puppet-lanserver – "Collection of several lanservices running in a puppet context"

Gameserver Management

• LinuxGSM – The command-line tool for quick, simple deployment and management of Linux dedicated game servers.
• srcds_exporter (python) – A stats exporter for prometheus that supports most of the SRCDS based gameservers.
• srcds_exporter (golang) – A stats exporter for prometheus written in Go and tested with Garry's Mod.
• get5 – CS:GO Sourcemod plugin for competitive matches/scrims.
• eBot – CSGO Server Bot for easy match creation (might be outdated).
• TMT – A tool to supervise/manage Counter-Strike 2 matches.
• PugSharp - CS2 CS# plugin for competitive matches/scrims, with api compatibility to get5.
• CS2 PugSharp Manager - Web tool that can be used together with PugSharp to run CS2 Tournaments.
• srcdstop – A CLI tool that shows how many people are on your SRCDS servers.
• gsltctrl_minimal – A little script to manage GSLT tokens.
• srcds-perfmon – A little utility to track the performance of a SRCDS server.
• kubernetes-lanparty How to put all of your game servers into Kubernetes.
• LAN game scanner
• Pterodactyl Panel – "Pterodactyl is the open-source game server management panel built with PHP7, Nodejs, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to administrators and users."
• Cloud Pterodactyl wings (CloudLAN Tools) - Automatically deploy and manage cloud-based Pterodactyl wings with the use of Terraform or OpenTofu.
• FeatherPanel – Open-source (AGPL-3.0) game server management panel; its FeatherWings daemon runs each game server in a Docker container.
• gameserver_webinterface – "Webinterface für LAN-Partys zum einfachen Starten/Stoppen/Verwalten von Gameservern."
• Wilfred – "Wilfred is a command-line interface for running and managing game servers locally. It uses Docker to run game servers in containers, which means they are completely separated. Wilfred can run any game that can run in Docker."
• standalone-rcon-client - "The Standalone RCON Client is a web-based tool for securely sending RCON commands to CS2 servers."
• 5stack.gg - "5stack: A Comprehensive Panel for Matchmaking, Server Management, Match Management, and Tournament Management"
• LANPilot - "LANPilot: A web interface for monitoring and remote-controlling game servers at LAN parties without loggin into the machine"

Gameserver Configs

• Archived ESL Configs
• Generic Docker game servers

Switch Configuration Tools

• procurve_conf – A little script to put configs on HP ProCurve switches.

File Sharing

• D-LAN – A free LAN distributed file sharing software.
• LANBucket - Fast, no-config, file sharing with a modern UI.
• SyncCrate – Free, open-source app that makes every PC at the party match the host's game mods, saves and configs. Copies only the files that differ, PC to PC at LAN speed, finds hosts automatically and needs no internet. Supports 120+ games (Minecraft, The Sims 4, Valheim, WoW and more).

Network-related software

• Service Discovery Helper – A program that forwards (some) broadcast traffic to other networks.
• bcast-bridge – A PHP script that generates iptables rules that forward broadcast traffic to other networks. Used at NorthCon and LANresort.
• gamebridge - Gamebridge allows you to carve up your LAN party network into many VLANs. Usually, this is a no-no for LAN parties due to the broadcasts needed to find local LAN game servers. Gamebridge rebroadcasts those game server finding beacons across many VLANs without passing anything else (ARP, BPDU, other non-game server broadcasts, etc.) using Linux ebtables. Very simple to set up and deploy. Created by NETWAR
• Gaming LAN Manager - A specialized WireGuard wrapper to create zero-config Virtual LANs, allowing remote friends to play LAN games over the internet.
• QStat – "A command-line program that displays information about Internet game servers."
• GrokStat – "Fast game server query tool. Retrieves information about game servers. Inspired by QStat."
• Discord Gameserver Notifier - Software so search local network of Gameserver and send Webhook into Discord Channel on new findings
• FlowGauge - A modular bandwidth testing tool with Multi-WAN support, DSCP flag configuration, and Grafana-compatible API.
• LANLeecher - At LAN parties, LANLeecher counts how much every guest downloads and uploads and turns it into rankings – in the browser, on the beamer and via API.

Caching

• lancache
• LanCache.net
• lancache-autofill – A script to fill a lan caching server
• steam-lancache-prefill – A self-contained, portable alternative to lancache-autofill with more features for steam games
• battlenet-lancache-prefill – A self-contained, portable alternative to lancache-autofill with more features for battlenet games
• origin-docker – Single docker image that will serves most major CDNs
• LANCache Manager - LANCache Manager is a simple web UI for monitoring and managing your LANCache. You can watch downloads in real time, see which games are cached, measure bandwidth savings, and prefill the cache with Steam and Epic games before LAN parties.

Monitoring

• CheckMK – Free Monitoring System that can monitor almost everything and if a check is missing, write you own simple check.
• checkmk-RCONserver – A local check for CheckMK to monitor GoldSrc Games (CS 1.6, Ricochet etc) and Source Games (CS:GO etc.).
• Uptime-Kuma - Easy to host monitoring solution with a variety of checks from simple pings over TCP checks to gameserver queries. Native installation and Docker deployment solution are available.
• SolidPing - Self-hosted uptime monitor with game server checks (Source/A2S and Minecraft, with player counts) next to ping, TCP, UDP, DNS and HTTP checks. Single binary or Docker container, SQLite by default.

Matchmaking / Lobby / Gamefinder

• Mutual Games Finder For LAN parties - A tool which connect "all" game libaries in order to find mutual games within your LANparty participants. Designed for private LAN partys (low number of participants, full trust among the group)

Uncategorized

• reboot-lan – "lanning + Infra for reBOOT LAN Party"

LAN-Adjacent Software

Software that is not specifically made for LAN Parties, but is helpful for LAN Parties anyways

Digital signage

• Anthias - Lightweight digital signage. Upload images and videos via a webinterface that will be displayed on a HDMI Display. Primarily for Raspberry Pi
• Infoscreen4 - Create and publish content to multiple screens from one place

Shops

• pretix – Open Source Ticketshop. Both free self-hosted and paid SaaS is available. Some features (e.g. seating plans) are behind a paywall but basic ticketing is free.