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A Toolkit for Fast Prototyping of Board Games
Etienne Vouga Mike Friedman Joe Warren
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Overview

• Tony owns 6,000 board games
• Rice Digital Media wants to digitize them all in
  playable form

• Our framework makes encoding game rules easy and
  fast

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Digitization Process

• 1. Scan board
• 2. Define board topology using editor
• 3. Import common elements and rules from library
• 4. Add unique features using Java code

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Step 2 Define Board Topology
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Step 3 Import Library Code

• Library provides functionality common to many
  games
• Turn manager
• Linear path movement
• Finding patterns on grid
• Manage cards

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Example Games
Game Name Time to Implement Lines of Code
Othello 30 minutes 100
Connect Four 30 minutes 100
Snakes and Ladders 20 minutes 100
Stratego 3 hours 250
Risk 1 day 700
East of Thebes 2 days 1000
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Future Plans

• Test the framework on Tonys collection
• Hire 3-4 second-semester students next summer
• Encode 200-300 games

East of Thebes and the other example games are
playable online at http//128.42.6.208/dlp/netgame
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