OGS Mahjong 2: Demo 2
We are glad to announce the release of the second demonstration of OGS Mahjong 2.
The purposes of this release were to refine our development techniques and
build a solid cross-platform foundation.
Release
Run the latest version of OGS Mahjong 2 in your web browser:
http://ogstudio.github.io/ogs-mahjong
You are encouraged to run the game with seed parameter like this:
http://ogstudio.github.io/ogs-mahjong?seed=0
This allows you to play the same layout each time you launch the game.
Each seed uniquely identifies the placement of tiles. Thus, different seeds
give you a different experience.
Development techniques and foundation
During the second demonstration development, we switched from standard
development to example-driven one. This resulted in the
creation of three distinct repositories to back the development of OGS Mahjong 2:
- OpenSceneGraph cross-platform examples repository provides cross-platform foundation like resource handling, render window setup, etc.
- OGS Mahjong components repository provides Mahjong specific functionality like parsing layout, matching tiles, etc.
- OGS Mahjong repository contains snapshots of
OGS Mahjong components features that comprise specific game version. E.g., Demo 2 version is almost identical to 05.ColorfulStatus example of OGS Mahjong components.
Beyond Mahjong solitaire
In addition to seed parameter, you can let the game use remote layout hosted at GitHub:
http://ogstudio.github.io/ogs-mahjong?seed=0&layout=github://OGStudio/ogs-mahjong-components/data/cat.layout
Utilizing remote resources is an extremely powerful approach allowing anyone
to create a layout of his/her choice and see the layout in action instantly.
Our next step is to turn game logic into a resource, too.
Examples and dependencies
This article describes two new OpenSceneGraph cross-platform examples and the
change in handling dependencies.
Examples of HTTP client and node selection
Once we finished working on the remote debugging example and
reported its completion, we were surprised by the fact
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Example-driven development
This article explains how the third OpenSceneGraph cross-platform example
opened our eyes to example-driven development.
2018-08 EDIT: the third example has been renamed to the fourth one due to
the reasons described in the next article.
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This article summarizes the work we did to produce the first two
cross-platform OpenSceneGraph examples.
By the time the first technology demonstration of OGS Mahjong 2
has been released, we've already had issue request
(to explain how to load images with OpenSceneGraph on Android) hanging for some
time. We considered …
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We are glad to announce the release of the first technical demonstration of
OGS Mahjong 2. The purpose of this release was to verify gameplay across
supported platforms.
Get techdemo for your platform:
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Plan
We started Mahjong recreation endeavour by composing a brief plan to get gameplay with minimal graphics:
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- Place tiles in layout positions
- Distinguish tiles
- Implement selection
- Implement matching
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preparation of the champagne so that we can designate our goal for the
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