Features and Requirements

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Welcome To The BOARD18 Project

BOARD18 is a tool for playing “18xx style” games via Email.

The BOARD18 game session associated with a PBEM game is used to display the game board and the stock market for the game. It will run as a web service accessed via the player's web browser.
The How To page linked to here contains step by step instructions for setting up a PBEM 18xx game.

BOARD18 is open source software available under the MIT License

Please click here to help support the BOARD18 Project.

NOTE: For more information on 18xx style games, see this wikipedia article.

Features

BOARD18 allows multiple players to access a game board and an associated stock market chart and to place, move and delete track tiles and other tokens as required by the game being played.

Supported features include:

  • Player registration and log in
  • Mid level security [encrypted passwords]
  • Game session creation form
  • The play of multiple concurent games
  • Context menues
  • Hot keys for many game actions
  • Concurrent update protection

BOARD18 game boxes can be created for various 18xx games and loaded into the database on the server.

Requirements

BOARD18 is a web application that has both client side requirements and server side requirements.
These requirements are discussed separately.

The BOARD18 server requires:

  • An Apache web server
  • MySQL version 5.5 or later
  • PHP version 5.3 or later

The BOARD18 client requires a web browser that supports:

  • HTML5 [including Canvas]
  • CSS 3
  • The JavaScript standard referred to as ECMAScript 5

NOTE: Up to now only Firefox has been used as a development platform. NOTE: Recently Chromium Version 28 has been tested and it seems to work.

Lacks

Currently BOARD18 does not have:

  • Support for other browsers [but it is being worked on]
  • Support for hand held devices
  • Support for overlay tiles as in 1844
  • Game box creation tools
  • The ability to back out an accepted move
  • The ability to view a blank map during the course of the game
  • The ability to zoom in or out while viewing the game board
  • The ability to snap tokens based on meta data
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