Yatzy with boardgame.io

Fri, 03 Jan 2020 10:50:00 +1000

Two years ago I wrote about creating a simple Four In A Row game with boardgame.io. It continues to get some traffic, despite being somewhat outdated due to continued improvements to the boardgame.io framework. As such, I thought it would be a good time to revisit the framework again with a new game, Yatzy.

At a minimum I will make the following improvements over my previous game:

Build a more complicated rules engine with multiple moves and dynamic scoring
Use the latest boardgame.io framework available (0.35.1, at the time of writing)
Support a variable number of players (1-4)
Introduce an element of randomness (rolling dice)
Cleaner UI with Bootstrap 4
Use TypeScript

Over time I may add additional features or leverage more framework features, if there is any interest.

Four In A Row with boardgame.io

Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Google recently released a “not an official Google product” framework called boardgame.io. To quote the documentation:

The goal of this framework is to allow a game author to essentially translate the rules of a game into a series of simple functions that describe how the game state changes when a particular move is made, and the framework takes care of the rest. You will not need to write any networking or backend code.

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Yatzy with boardgame.io

Four In A Row with boardgame.io