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This part of the documentation focuses on the development framework itself: functions and methods available to build your game.
Game logic (Server side)
- Main game logic: yourgamename.game.php
- Your game state machine: states.inc.php
- Game database model: dbmodel.sql
- Players actions: yourgamename.action.php
- Game material description: material.inc.php
- Game statistics: stats.inc.php
Game interface (Client side)
- Game interface logic: yourgamename.js
- Game art: img directory
- Game interface stylesheet: yourgamename.css
- Game layout: view and template: yourgamename.view.php and yourgamename_yourgamename.tpl
- Your game mobile version
Other components
- Translations (how to make your game translatable)
- Game options and preferences: gameoptions.inc.php
- Game meta-information: gameinfos.inc.php
- Game replay
- 3D
- Some usual board game elements image ressources
BGA Studio game components reference
Game components are useful tools you can use in your game adaptations.
- Deck: a PHP component to manage cards (deck, hands, picking cards, moving cards, shuffle deck, ...).
- Counter: a JS component to manage a counter that can increase/decrease (ex: player's score).
- Scrollmap: a JS component to manage a scrollable game area (useful when the game area can be infinite. Examples: Saboteur or Takenoko games).
- Stock: a JS component to manage and display a set of game elements displayed at a position.
- Zone: a JS component to manage a zone of the board where several game elements can come and leave, but should be well displayed together (See for example: token's places at Can't Stop).
Undocumented component (if somebody knows please help with docs)
- Draggable: a JS component to manage drag'n'drop actions.
- ExpandableSection: a JS component to manage a rectangular block of HTML than can be displayed/hidden.
- Wrapper: a JS component to wrap a <div> element around its child, even if these elements are absolute positioned.
BGA Studio user guide
This part of the documentation is a user guide for the BGA Studio online development environment.
- BGA game Lifecycle
- First steps with BGA Studio
- Tutorial reversi
- Tutorial gomoku
- Tutorial hearts
- Create a game in BGA Studio: Complete Walkthrough
- Tools and tips of BGA Studio - Tips and instructions on setting up development environment
- Practical debugging - Tips focused on debugging
- Studio logs - Instructions for log access
- BGA Studio Cookbook - Tips and instructions on using API's, libraries and frameworks
- BGA Studio Guidelines
- Troubleshooting - Most common "I am really stuck" situations
- Studio FAQ
- Pre-release checklist - Go throught this list if you think you done development
- Post-release phase
- BGA Code Sharing - Shared resources, projects on git hub, common code, other links