Integration with Card Game Simulator

andymeneely commented 4 years ago

Came across this: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2293210/card-game-simulator

https://www.cardgamesimulator.com/

Seems perfect for Squib people. Looks like you have to just post a JSON file, which maybe we could have Squib generate?

I'll look into this and report back. Would be really cool to have this easily integrate.

davidmfinol commented 4 years ago

I think there's an opportunity to have a "save_cgs" method that works similar to the "save_png" method, except it would also create a couple JSON files and output to a folder structured for CGS.

What do you think?

davidmfinol commented 2 years ago

Hey @andymeneely, I figured you closed this to reduce scope creep, as it may not be worth your time to try to setup some kind of integration. But would you be interested if I raised a PR with "save_cgs" (or "export_cgs"?) ?

andymeneely commented 2 years ago

Go for it! Yeah I was just doing some routine trimming of the backlog

andymeneely commented 2 years ago

Actually I'll re-open and give you some ideas. I'm going to be working on some other things but here's some thoughts...

andymeneely commented 2 years ago

Looks like CGS needs a couple of key files that Squib can help with. Here's some ways we could go about this:

Just document. Even without integration, we can document an example of how to do it in the Squib docs. I'd be happy to include an example in Squib's samples/ folder and a tutorial of setting it up so Squib output to the format that CGS expects
Starting template. Right now, squib new has a --simple and --advanced mode, but I wouldn't mind having more. It would make sense to have a squib new --cgs with everything preset. That'd be quick and easy
Generating AllCards.json. Seems to me that the easiest way to do this is by adding something to Squib::DataFrame (https://github.com/andymeneely/squib/blob/dev/lib/squib/import/data_frame.rb). There's already a to_pretty_text and to_pretty_json that I use frequently to save plaintext versions of the data. Something along the lines of to_cgs_allcards or something like that would be easy and pretty straightforward

Beyond that, I think the other files that CGS expects are things you can do in plain ol' Ruby, and it's just a matter of showing people how to do it.

For my own testing, I'd like to take one of my existing card games, called Victory Point Salad (https://github.com/andymeneely/victory-point-salad) and get it into CGS to see how it goes.

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