Are we crazy?

[SonGoku]

If i remember well, Alhambra was on BGA, but they removed it.

[qudoz]

The Mississippi Queen
Virgin Queen
Chess
Notre Dame
Love Letter
Hearts

[DukeOfEarl]

I don't think it is a game from Queen Games. They're too dumb to allow any computerized adaptations of their boardgames on any site.

My guesses for the first game:
Kingsburg
Notre Dame
Louis XIV
Mississippi Queen

The other one is most assuredly Les dames de Troyes

[sourisdudesert]

Hello,

The special thing about these 2 games is the following: they are classic games that are intended to be used as examples for developers of BGA Studio.

The two games are Hearts and Reversi.

These 2 games will be published on BGA as any other games. Of course, they are plenty of websites where you can play these 2 nice games already, but we need simple games as examples for BGA Studio developer team so this is a nice occasion to add these two.

Note: the source code of Hearts and Reversi will be made available as soon as BGA Studio has been released.

[teasel]

man i'm super disappointed
when you guys implemented colorpop i was like "too simple!" but you can't get really simpler than hearts!
also i would have liked to see the code of something like troyes or seasons since they deal both with dices and random card shuffles and the like but i guess even something like hearts can help you with learning how the client/server comunication work and stuff like that

[Oso]

man i'm super disappointed
when you guys implemented colorpop i was like "too simple!" but you can't get really simpler than hearts!
also i would have liked to see the code of something like troyes or seasons since they deal both with dices and random card shuffles and the like but i guess even something like hearts can help you with learning how the client/server comunication work and stuff like that

And how would the creators of Seasons and Troyes to know that the game code is free for anyone?

I think you have a good idea within simple games Board Game Arena, but somehow still exist complex games too.
I have a theory that there was more games simples like Chess or Checkers, more common people would come here.

[sourisdudesert]

Hello,

Oso is right, we cannot make any games available like this, and this is why we produced these 2 games.

Another reason is that the goal is to understand BGA mechanisms, not the games. Troyes and Seasons sourcecode is complex, and it would be hard for a developer to determine what is specific to a game and what is generic to BGA framework.

Anyway, you shouldn't be disappointed: we were in Essen last week to meet the game publishers, and we plan to release some very nice "BGA style" games in the next months

Cheers,

[teasel]

Oso is right, we cannot make any games available like this, and this is why we produced these 2 games.

gee is it such a big deal? i guess hearts has to do with a deck of cards anyway and there isn't much difference between managing a bunch of dice and managing a deck of card

Anyway, you shouldn't be disappointed: we were in Essen last week to meet the game publishers, and we plan to release some very nice "BGA style" games in the next months

yay!

[qudoz]

The Mississippi Queen
Virgin Queen
Chess
Notre Dame
Love Letter
Hearts

The two games are Hearts and Reversi.
.

What do I win for getting one right?

[Phelan]

For people complaining about the games, realize that it makes sense: one is a card game, and the other a board game.

They seem like they would be good examples to play around with.