Last month I made a doodle post of an idea for an instant online board game system.

Well, progress is coming along fast:

So far I have:

• a react site which directs /game/test to a test boardgame
• Websocket connection where you can move around game piece elements
• A component hierarchy where every piece type passes props down to possibly other piece types, to then load in the Piece component. This should allow for a rapid development of lots of types of pieces, as the details of each are just specifying what makes it different from a different piece. Examples:
  • Chess pieces would remove other pieces from the board if you put one on top of another
  • Clicking cards will flip them over
  • clicking decks will pull a card from an array of cards and put it on top of the deck
  • clicking on a dice box will roll the dice, and there will be an area to manipulate what dice are in the box
• A json structure for a game where piece components are specified, and the props that go down to them
• A reducer coding system which will minimize the size of updates coming from connected clients

Current tasks:

• Authentication
• Membership - allow access to premium games and ability to have more than 2 tables
• Create game table
• Auto save games to mongo
• Load and unload games from memory
• Set your player #, icon, color, and name (allow spectators?)
• Show hidden hand for player
• Drag/drop pieces onto table