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Jocly. An html-based web platform for playing 2-player abstract stategy games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2023 11:19 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Mon Feb 13 06:54 PM:

We could have a Jocly table that associates games supported by Jocly with the name Jocly knows it by, ...

The Jocly names are not very difficult to guess, even though a bit strange at times. It turned out that Jocly was not able to recognize the *-model.js and *-view.js files in the chessbase directory if the name of the variant did not end in '-chess'. Normally that is automatically what you get when replacing all the spaces in the commonly used names by hyphens. E.g. team-mate-chess, wild-tamerlane-chess. When the name contains 'chess' as a suffix (like Gigachess), you still need the hyphen (giga-chess); the rules file and thumbnail then usually don't carry the hyphen (giga-chess-model.js, but gigachess-thumb.png).

When the common name doesn't contain the word 'chess', it is usually added (shako-chess, kaisergame-chess). When it is a Shogi variant (which were all implemented by me, as the standard Jocly chessbase module did not support piece drops), I either appended the -chess suffix (so regular shogi became shogi-chess), or replaced the word 'shogi' by 'chess' (chu-chess, tenjiku-chess). I did not do this entirely consistently, though (Tori Shogi is tori-shogi-chess). But it is not too late to change that. (Just a matter of renaming the files, and put the new name in jocly-allgames.js.)