jdcourcol / boardzilla

Boardzilla is a framework for making and playing board games.

Boardzilla

Boardzilla is a framework for making and playing board games.

Using javascript to describe the game board and pieces, and then a simple set of rules to define what pieces can be moved by whom and at what point. Boardzilla comes with a built-in web app that can used to play the game rules for any number of players, on web or mobile. Out of the box it translates the rules of the game into a simple set of draggable objects, and these can be customized to your heart's content with CSS and images.

Tic-tac-toe

Development

To develop Boardzilla you'll need to have Postgres and RabbitMQ installed. If you're on Mac with Homebrew, you can do this by running: brew install postgresql rabbitmq.

To set up development, run ./scripts/setup. This will do the initial installation of packages and initialize the development and test databases.

Once you have done this you can run a game by running GAME=game-name ./scripts/dev. For instance, to run Four Souls, run GAME=isaac-four-souls ./scripts/dev.

The test suite can be run with ./scripts/test.

Game structure

The server and client for each game is contained in a folder for the game. The server subclasses game-core/server/interface and exports that in it's index.js, while the client uses the render exported from game-core/client.