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Thanks Armin!
I've added links to the settings files on the respective Preset pages:
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/minishogi
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/judkins-shogi
(I've forgotten the convention about Inventors of Preset pages...the preset author or the game inventor? Fergus, Greg, Joe?)
Judkin's original settings file doesn't appear to actually be different from the Chess one, so perhaps it should be deleted.
Hello,
i'm putting my comment here, because i can't get through to the editors via e-mail.
I recently created two new rule enforcing presets for Mini Shogi and Judkin's Shogi and wanted to add them to the game courier game page, to make it possible for others to play them.
you can find them here:
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Minishogi&settings=default
https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Judkin%27s+Shogi&settings=default
hopefully one of the editors reads this comment and can put them there, because the actual presets are bad or not working at all.
Sincerely,
Armin Liebhart (lunaris)
Test comment. My session was not being recognized on play.chessvariants.com, but the comment link led to chessvariants.com, where it is working.
NOTE TO JEREMY: I still believe your TenCubed Chess preset needs to be adjusted. Most presets require Sides: White Black and Side: White. The Shogi preset reverses these settings, because Black moves first in Shogi. My email address will change in a week, so I have been avoiding correspondence lately.
And as long as you are working in that preset, I think that the dark squares would look better with Colors: FFFFFF 888888 - but I can always use a custom setting for my own viewing.
ATTN David Howe: David, when I clicked on the 'quick edit' link for this page, I was informed that this page is now part of a collection, and several new presets, all created by members through the new system you set up, were part of the collection. Why is this page now part of a collection with other pages? What does it mean for these pages to be collected together? Is it necessary to show pages in the same collection when someone clicks on 'edit' or 'quick edit'? They don't appear to have the same id, so no disambiguation seems to be required. I then had to click 'edit', not 'quick edit' again, to edit the page, and I had to wait for all the long drop-down menus to load. Would you please add 'quick edit' links to collection pages and to pages on the main site, not just in the play subdomain?
Yes this is true. What I meant is that at least the game design part is left open and one can code a lot of game with game courier. That much is also not easily avalaible elsewhere. As a matter of fact game courier is an excellent creation, both as an idea and as an implementation. I understand the problem with point and click play. But one generaly use it as a side option. One may use it or one may enter the move by hand. It is like that in other servers. Why I suggested point and click play is that to many computer-novice gammer it gives more comfort and hence is a important factor to increase the popularity of a system. A java base system also gives a better and faster preset to analyze and watch a played game.
First, Game Courier is not an open source project by the users for the users. It is my own creation, built up from scratch by myself, with a little bit of assistance from some other editors. It enables open development of presets by anyone who cares to make them, but that's all that is open about it. Like you can use a word processor to write a novel without being able to program the word processor, you can use Game Courier to develop games without being able to program Game Courier. Second, I have no plans to add point and click capability to Game Courier. Entering moves by notation is more versatile than moving pieces with a mouse, and it will work with any browser. It also helps a player think about his move more carefully and helps safeguard against making a mistake. Besides all that, I have no experience programming Java, and I'm not so excited about the idea of point and click capability to think it is worth my time and effort to try to implement it.
Both schemingmind.com and brainking.com have a number of 'hidden information' games with rules that are automatically enforced. You can try both sites out for free. They also both have a lot of mini-tournaments (that members can begin) for their variants, though neither has anything near the number of variants Game Courier has. One thing I like a lot about schemingmind.com and would like to see replicated at chessvariants.org is a pyramid system for each variant. You can join a pyramid and then challenge other people at your level. If you win, you go to a higher level and if you lose, you go down a level (or if you're at the bottom, you stay at the bottom).
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Pages have authors, not inventors. Someone who programs a preset counts as an author. The inventor exclusively refers to the game inventor.