Re: [Rails-devel] Rails 1.4 Creating games

[brett l. <bre...@gm...>]

Charles -

Welcome to the list!

Creating games is a combination of configuration and coding, depending
on what the game entails.

The map, stock market, and other basic details are configured via XML
files. For games that simply re-use the rules of existing, already
implemented games, it's fairly easy to write-up the XML, drop it into
the correct locations, updating the master game lists, and have Rails
begin attempting to play a new game.

The game rules, if they deviate from already implemented game rules,
will require additional coding to implement those special cases. This
requires extending the game code, which is written in Java.

Your first steps should be to set up your IDE (most of us use
Eclipse), check out the code from SVN, and begin familiarizing
yourself with the code base as well as looking through the mailing
list archives.

If you have any questions (or patches you'd like applied to SVN), feel
free to post them to the list. :-)

---Brett.



On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Charles Strong <men...@gm...> wrote:
> I've been using Rails to run different 18xx games that I have. However there
> are a few that aren't even in the Rails program but would like to play using
> it. Once our group started using Rails we have a hard time trying to run one
> without, it just saves a lot of time and calculations.
>
> I'm looking into creating the game files for Rails to use for the games it
> doesn't currently have. I'm also looking at creating my own 18xx to be used
> in Rails. I was wondering how would I do this? I'm not a stranger to basic
> programming, html, etc. so the technical learning curve isn't an issue (that
> and I'm a quick learner).
>
>
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