Board Game Arena

I'm just starting out, so forgive me if this is a dense question. Got my dev account, set up SFTP, created a test (empty) tutorial project, copied Reversi into another tutorial.

I'm trying to test-play a 2-player game (Reversi tutorial).

• From Play Now, I created a table manually, clicked Express start, it created a game with players [myname]0 and [myname]1.
• I seem to be [myname]0 per the icon in upper right corner, but how do I play a turn as [myname]1?
• I tried logging in on a different browser; I could successfully log in as [myname]0 but not as any of the others (error: "Oooops, we don't recognize your username or password").

What's am I missing? what's the trick to playing as [myname]1-9?

This should be explained in the docs you received, like in the "LET'S CODE!" section of this document : https://boardgamearena.com/doc/First_st ... BGA_Studio


You juste have to select the number of players and click "Express Start".

Ohhh so sorry, I missread !

I spent 5mn to find it too, when I first started. You have a red ">" near each player name, which let you open a tab impersonating them

Draasill wrote: ↑11 June 2020, 08:16 Ohhh so sorry, I missread !

I spent 5mn to find it too, when I first started. You have a red ">" near each player name, which let you open a tab impersonating them

Oh my god ! I spent so many hours on developping Santorini without knowing that !! Thank you !
(I had to open a private tab or another browser and login with my other accounts, now I feel a bit silly )

I did the same too before seeing the light!

Same for playing in training mode while developing the game. Countless start/stop of games left my account with a 0% reputation. Who said developers never read docs?

I'm pretty sure I read it somewhere (after finding it and struggling of course) in the BGA docs.

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Ok found it, it's written in the "Hearts" tutorial (in-between a pack of text) :

To switch between them press the red arrow button near their names, it will open another tab. This way you don't need to login and logout from multiple accounts!

This maybe should be written elsewhere

It's also in Tools and tips of BGA studio, at the beginning of the page. But it would be nice to have it in First steps page.(Don't have time to do it now myself, sorry)

Thanks, all. I have added a note to that effect on the wiki page for the Reversi tutorial.