PlanarAlly vs boardgame.io

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PlanarAlly		boardgame.io
	Project
3	Mentions	27
387	Stars	9,873
-	Growth	0.6%
9.4	Activity	6.2
9 days ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

PlanarAlly

Posts with mentions or reviews of PlanarAlly. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-16.

Anything you wish there was an open source solution for?
52 projects | /r/selfhosted | 16 May 2023

I haven't tried Foundry VTT, so I'm not familiar with the issue you are describing, but you could look into PlanarAlly. I'm currently running 3 campaigns on it. Users join an separate campaigns, they only need to be created once.
VTTs - Tired of looking at threads 2+ years old. Foundry vs. FGU vs. Roll20: What do you use?
1 project | /r/mattcolville | 5 May 2021
An alternative Virtual tabletop: owlbear.rodeo. It has just enough features to be enticing, but not too many that it makes it overwhelming to learn.
1 project | /r/rpg | 5 Apr 2021

Planarally: is not only good, it's perfect. Intuitive and not cluttered UI. Constant updates, it's opensource on github where you can signal bugs or suggest new features. You can self-host it on your own server.

boardgame.io

Posts with mentions or reviews of boardgame.io. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-29.

Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2024

If you're looking for something more low-level, I can recommend boardgame.io [1].
[1] https://boardgame.io/
Play Othello in your web browser (using Mithril)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Dec 2023

Here's mine! https://skeoh.com/othello/
It's not nearly as polished but I had a lot of fun making it. It uses React and the now-no-longer-maintained https://boardgame.io/.
Making a board-game app
1 project | /r/django | 25 May 2023

It could definitely be used to do that. However, there are better frameworks to accomplish this with many of the features needed for board games. https://boardgame.io is one of them. If anything, take a look at that and utilize some of their game logic and game state management ideas in Django.
Open Source Game Engine for Turn-Based Games
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 May 2023
Best way to manage state in node/express
2 projects | /r/node | 20 Mar 2023

Are you looking for: https://github.com/boardgameio/boardgame.io
In a week I'm 30 and this is my latest achievement as a webDev. 5k undead units in a browser game with 120fps. Heh, not much, but hope release will happen soon and it'll be much bigger achievement.
1 project | /r/webdev | 19 Mar 2023

Check out boardgame.io if you are not looking to do everything from scratch.
I am creating a boardgames platform with online multiplayer
1 project | /r/boardgames | 4 Mar 2023

Also https://www.freeboardgames.org/ which hosts games built with the https://boardgame.io/ game engine.
Ask HN: What is the most barebone back end solution?
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2023

I think you know best what you want to build yourself. :-)
If you separate the abstract interface for sending/receiving game states and its implementation, you can rely on an external service like hushfile to get started, and then switch to running a similar service yourself afterwards. Saves you from having to deploy and maintain the server initially.
Running a VPS wouldn't cost more than $5/mo.
Since nobody mentioned it, you may want to consider:
https://boardgame.io/
It is a service specifically for managing JSON game state.
But it comes with its own ideas, so your mileage may vary.
Is a Multiplayer Game Possible with NextJS + Vercel?
1 project | /r/nextjs | 17 Dec 2022

Have you looked at https://boardgame.io ? You’ll still have to deploy a backend but all the multiplayer functionality is already built in.
Open-source tabletop board game simulator
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Nov 2022

If you are more interested in the rules/logic side of things there’s also https://boardgame.io/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PlanarAlly and boardgame.io you can also consider the following projects:

chartjs-chart-geo - Chart.js Choropleth and Bubble Maps

jsboard - JavaScript library for easily creating board games

character-overlay - Web App for adding an OBS overlay with character information such as name, picture, and health for your favorite role-playing game.

peerjs - Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTC.

angular-skyhook - An implementation of react-dnd for Angular.

Phaser - Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering. [Moved to: https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser]

aeternum-map - Aeternum Map - Interactive map for New World

Match_Game - Repository for the tutorial for creating a phaser game with electron

kerala-dashboard - Kerala COVID-19 Dashboard

storybook - Storybook is a frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation. Made for UI development, testing, and documentation.

lba2remake - A Little Big Adventure 2 / Twinsen's Odyssey reimplementation in JavaScript / Three.js / React

rot.js - ROguelike Toolkit in JavaScript. Cool dungeon-related stuff, interactive manual, documentation, tests!