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Hello team, The BGA platform is an excellent site for millions of people to learn and play board games, and I spend lots of time here (as many of us do). Besides playing games, I also develop games for the platform, and I do this when I have free time as a hobby (as many of us do). Developing games, although fun, can also be a painstaking process that requires hundreds of hours of programming, ...

There appears to be a built-in bga_format utility function to format log messages. It's referenced on this page: https://boardgamearena.com/doc/Translations It appears to require 2 arguments to be passed from the notify line in the php file, but it's not clear to me what those arguments should be.

Hello BGA Developers! I'm the designer of "Survival Chess: Tartan Grid", a unique and intense chess variant that has just been officially published on BGG. I am looking for a volunteer developer interested in bringing this fast-paced tactical game to the BGA platform. Clear & Simple Ruleset: The game uses standard chess piece movements. The core rules are just two: 1. Capture is mandatory if ...

I want to develop a game where the second player starts with +10.5 points as compensation. After that, all points are integers. Is there a way to implement half a point on BGA?

I dont know what to do next when I reach this step. I copied the code and added close brackets but the code still not run. "If you open cards.jpg in an image viewer you will see that it is a "sprite" image - a 15x4 grid of images stitched together, which is a very efficient way to transport images. So we will use the card manager class to mark up these images and create "card" divs for us and ...

The first row of the stats table at game end shows "LB_GAME_RESULT" as the row label with the scores for each player in the columns to the right. How can I change that label?

I play some games that don't get as much traffic, and so when I find someone else that plays the game as well, I friend them that way I can see they are on and invite them. The problem is I have so many friends that it's getting harder to keep track of who plays what. The solution would be a feature that allows me to create groups/categories to place my friends in. Maybe one for "friends and ...

I can create a zone, but when I try to use 'placeInZone', the code crashes. This code in legacy style works just fine. Here is my code in the setup function of my game: // test the zone code in es6 land // const [zone] = await importDojoLibs(['ebg/zone']); document.getElementById(`mr_main`).insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', ` <div id="testZone" style="width: ...

Hello BGA developers! I am the designer of Archivarium, a fast-paced, two-player abstract dice game, and I am looking for a developer interested in bringing it to the platform. In Archivarium, players are rival archivists battling for control of a crumbling library. You roll dice (representing Scrolls), immediately form groups (Archives), and decide: push your luck for safety or stop and strike ...

Hello, good people I hope it is ok for me to post this here, the BGA confirmation email told me to maybe give this a try I'm Jan, a hobby game designer from Germany, and I'm looking for a developer for my recently submitted game Crop Rotation. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/446 ... p-rotation It's an in-hand set collection card game for 2 players (consisting of only 36 cards, so I think ...