Another Jquery based board game that I'm putting into beta : http://64squar.es
It's an online realtime chess game with drag and drop pieces. On Jul 10, 2:31 pm, "Andy Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you explain (ever so briefly) how this would be used? Is it merely a way > to quickly place pieces on an existing board? > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of John Resig > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 9:41 PM > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > Subject: [jQuery] Re: announcement: jQuery-based generic board game > interface > > Stephan - > > Great work! I could definitely see how this would be useful. > > --John > > On 7/9/07, Stephan Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hiya! > > > The jQ site says that this list is "the place" to make announcements, > > so here it goes... > > > The past couple of days i've been working on an application for > > playtesting new boardgames (a long-time hobby of mine), and it's now > > at a point where it "mostly does what i want." With only about 175 > > lines of JS code (plus about 3 times that amount of HTML, PHP, and > > CSS), i'm still slapping my forehead over simple it is to do complex > > DOM-related tasks using jQuery. i didn't have to use the standard DOM > > API a single time, and had no problem finding a jQuery function to do > > everything i needed/wanted to do. > > > Here it is, in any case: > > >http://wanderinghorse.net/gaming/bpi/ > > > (BPI is a "working title" meaning "Boardgame Prototyping Interface") > > > There are, of course, many more potential features to add, but it is > > currently suitable for its purpose: setting up and playtesting new > > boardgame designs without having to print out the boards and pieces. > > > Caveat: it's only been tested in Firefox 2.0.0.4 and Konqueror 3.5.7, > > but it does not work 100% correctly in Konqueror because in jQ 1.1.3.1 > > the dblclick() callbacks are never triggered in that browser (a bug > > report has been filed). > > > :D
