As another little aside, I’ve hacked in some configuration for Chaos Enhanced. Use the form below to launch a game with your desired settings – though please note that this is an abandoned demo with missing features and bugs!

Number of players:

2
34
56
78

Board width:

Board height:

Starting spell count per player:

Player 1 name:

Player 2 name:

Player 3 name:

Player 4 name:

Player [...]

The Archaos server now validates, processes and outputs a full turn of human interactions. This is a pretty major milestone in the development process, and I’m very happy with the results so far:
{
“turn” : 1,
“phase” : “move”,
“interaction” : “sequence”,
“finished” : true,
“actions” : [
[...]

As a little bit of an aside to ‘the main project’ , I’ve been getting more familiar with node.js by forking a nice simple IRC bot project on github. At the moment I’ve just got it logging in an mIRC compatible format, and added some missing features to the logging, but in the future I’m [...]

The server is really starting to take shape now. Turns and phases flow along nicely, and I’ve spent the last few days working on the spellcasting system. If you’ve read the Google Code page on Spells you’ll know that the spells themselves are simply sandboxed Javascript functions. I had thoughts before about writing some kind [...]