Game Box Creation - Introduction

About Game Boxes

Game Boxes edit
Introduction Design Document	Downloads Making Game Boxes

A game box is needed for any 18xx game that will use BOARD18 for PBEM sessions.
Ideally gamers like you will create these boxes for the games that they wish to play.
A board18 game box repository has been created on github.
And a support system is being developed to ease the creation of new game boxes.
These Game Box Creation pages form a start to this support system.

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Introduction Image Files The Library Python scripts	Control Syntax Control Semantics Testing Publishing

A game box consists of the graphics files and control tables that describe the game board, the stock market and the various playing pieces. A game box can be built using a graphics editor and a text editor. These Game Box Creation pages describe the process of creating a game box. They specifically refer to a Linux environment in which the GIMP image editor and the gedit text editor are the tools used. But these pages should also be helpful to people using other environments.

Before you read these pages, please look at the Game Box section of the BOARD18 Design Document to familiarize yourself with the conceptual design of a game box.

Existing Game Boxes

An example game box exists for 1830 and can be found in the boxes folder of the game box repository.
A list of games and their game box status is available here.
If the status of a game is "Completed" then you will find the game box in the game box repository.

Making New Game Boxes

If the status of a game is "Not yet started" [or the game box is not listed] and you wish to create a game box for that game, please state your intention to create the game box in an Email sent to Rich Price [rich at board18.org].
The rest of these Game Box Creation pages explain how to create a game box. More information on creating game boxes can be found in the design document.
Some graphic images that may help with the creation of game boxes can be found in the buildingBlocks and library folders of the game box repository.
Other tools (described in these Game Box Creation pages) can also be found in the game box repository.