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Jocly. An html-based web platform for playing 2-player abstract stategy games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 04:10 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 09:42 AM:

Well, I have managed now to port your custom files for Cavalier Chess to the Jocly installation on my website, from which I think the installation here was cloned.

No, I installed Jocly here, and I didn't clone it from your website.

I now also ported Embassy, Univers, Modern Carrera's, Grotesque and Grand Cavalier Chess to the CVP Jocly install. This puts all variants that were embedded by the old method in the category 'works in Jocly, but link in the overview page points to non-working page'.

Very good. Is there any way we can get thumbnails for them to show up?

I suppose these pages could be made working again, by replacing the script that is there now by an iframe invoking Jocly with the proper ?game=... argument (like the Courier Chess page already does). I wonder if this makes sense, though, as this would still only cover a small fraction of the chess variants that Jocly now supports. I understand that these 'relay pages' served the purpose of exhibiting the illustrated rule descriptions contained in Jocly, but not accessible through the control.html demo that we use to run Jocly.

Like with Game Courier, we should have separate web pages for each game playable on it. This lets us index the pages, which lets us show them in search results, post comments to them, and include a menu item in the Play menu for games playable on Jocly. We could add more pages for the other Chess variants supported by Jocly so that they get the same benefits.