rot.js VS boardgame.io

I can recommend rot.js. It offers both ascii and tileset support.

ROT.JS is a great library for making quick roguelikes and being in javascript means you can inspect the code. It has a number of map generation algorithms that you can mess around with to make interesting dungeons. https://ondras.github.io/rot.js/hp/

Lost Gardens of the Stone Heart is a browser game in traditional ASCII style, written in Javascript with the ROT.js and Tracery libraries. Or, at least, it will be when it reaches that magic critial mass of features and things actually happening and coalesces into something deserving the adjective.

- https://github.com/ondras/rot.js

The code is Open Source (like everything on CodePen) and anyone can modify the game to add more features. I just want to share it here so someone maybe will create something more fun with it. It uses ROT.js library. Note that the code was created quite some time ago and it's written in ES5 version of JavaScript.

I've been looking through the rot.js source, but it doesn't seem like it's currently possible to change the border color of a hex. Does anyone have experience with this?

Surprising. I've not used rot.js but I haven't found Canvas too bad for a real time game I'm working on (60 fps with 50x25 onscreen tilemap on my phone). ROT also has a WebGL backend available.

Thanks! I am using [rot.js](https://ondras.github.io/rot.js/hp/) map generation primitives and then layering stuff on top of that. I'll probably introduce an "outside" at some point with caves and forests you can explore.

I used ClojureScript and ROT.js to build it.

It sounds like you want something high scope. However, if you're asking what engine you should use then it sounds like you haven't got a prototype yet. Which would be faster to make in Javascript - there's libraries like ROT.jd to speed things up.

If you're looking for something more low-level, I can recommend boardgame.io [1].

[1] https://boardgame.io/

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/.

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.

Are you looking for: https://github.com/boardgameio/boardgame.io

Check out boardgame.io if you are not looking to do everything from scratch.

Also https://www.freeboardgames.org/ which hosts games built with the https://boardgame.io/ game engine.

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.

Have you looked at https://boardgame.io ? You’ll still have to deploy a backend but all the multiplayer functionality is already built in.

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