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Real time two-player Go in the browser.

About

Jago ("Yah-GO") is in early development, and is intended to become a complete Go game server and community.

Running

• Install node.js
• Run npm install
• Run node server.js
• Open localhost:3000 in two different Chrome windows
  • It doesn't work in Firefox yet

Planned Features

• Chat (+optional audio/video)
• "one click" game start
• Rankings
• Public & private games
• Random matching (or not)
• Saved game history
• User profiles & preferences
• Pause/resume/forfeit games
• Sound
• Time limits
• Teaching games

TODO

• M1: Integrate jGoBoard: https://github.com/jokkebk/jgoboard
  • Basic POC
• M1: Implement webRTC, POC: Two browsers control one board
  • Read https://webrtchacks.com/datachannel-multiplayer-game/
  • Read http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/datachannels/
  • POC: Transfer data between two browsers
  • Clean up chat
  • Clean up UI a bit, select player
  • Transfer moves & enable/disable local board control
  • Handle invalid moves/cheating attempts
  • Support multiple games
  • Show other player's "hover" events
  • Show open games
  • Handle "pass" moves
  • Handle visiting in-progress games
  • Handle victory
  • Handle surrender
• M1: Setup test framework
• M1: Setup "production" stun server
• M1: Setup "production" environment
• M2: Handle reconnects
• M2: Support observers

Milestones

Milestone 1

1. Working game between two players with chat

Milestone 2

1. Support observers
2. Save games (.sgf)

RELEASE 1.0

1. Full game over webRTC, with score and declared winner.
2. Multiple games, start new game, view in progress game.
3. In-game chat, pause/resume forfeit games, time limits.
4. Profiles, rankings, game history.
5. Other board sizes, configure board options, Sound.
6. Audio & video Chat.
7. Teaching games & other game types.
8. Code of conduct.

RELEASE FUTURE

• Moderation/warnings/bans/etc
• Rooms & room Chat
• Undo request/accept
• Download/upload .sgf files
• Game library - enhance game history with uploaded games/etc.

License

Jago is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en_US

Jago uses the "jGoBoard" library from http://jgoboard.com, which is also CC BY-NC licensed.

Tutorials/documentation

Based on https://github.com/webrtc/samples/tree/gh-pages/src/content/datachannel/basic and https://github.com/agilityfeat/memory-webrtc-data-channel