Guides for games - Githubissues

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

Here is what I have for my shogi guide. The txt file is in Github markdown, but I'm not sure what to do from there. There are image placeholders, but I don't know the exact directory for the images. Hopefully you know what to do do about that. :)

ShogiGuide.zip

Also, on an unrelated note. I checked the white elephant and the borders are exactly the same as other pieces (6 px wide), so I don't know why it appears thicker in the game. Might as well leave it as is though. I should mention that the Capa sets aren't updated with the newest elephants/hawks though.

gbtami commented 5 years ago

Thx! Created a new wiki page for this at https://github.com/gbtami/pychess-variants/wiki There you can edit the text as you like (after you accept invitation sent). I'v uploaded the .png images to the repository here https://github.com/gbtami/pychess-variants/tree/master/static/images/ShogiGuide and linked images there. Btw Bishop.png (the movements) is missing from .zip!

When we will have a page/menu for variants on the site I will add this as https://pychess-variants.herokuapp.com/variant/shogi and will link it from game info headers.

gbtami commented 5 years ago

I can't see the white elephant issue. Can you create a screenshot demonstrating it please?

Regarding Capa sets we have only one source .svg files for elephants/hawks. Maybe you just have to update your browser pages or clear browser cache.

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

Added the bishop image. The next big one eventually will be a xiangqi guide.

And I think the white elephant is really just my perception. I think my eyes are playing tricks on me because the pieces look similar.

gbtami commented 5 years ago

Until I find a better solution I added the Shogi-Guide to https://pychess-variants.herokuapp.com/about It uses https://docsify.js.org/

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

I don't see any link

Also just a stylistic thing, but maybe shouse should be S-house? It looks like one word otherwise lol

gbtami commented 5 years ago

You have to refresh that About browser page to get the latest.

Btw now the site presents .md from https://github.com/gbtami/pychess-variants/tree/master/static/docs You can think about these that .md on Wiki is your development version and .md on main repo is the production version. You can work on the former without users seeing it on the site and when you think it's OK we can copy it to the main github repo and finally I push it to Heroku.

shouse is come from ianfab, I just started to use it :)

gbtami commented 5 years ago

Heh, after rethinking it we can drop the wiki version and you can work on .md in the main repo. It has the same preview feature there.

OK deleted it from wiki. Use https://github.com/gbtami/pychess-variants/tree/master/static/docs

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

Okay I see it now. I had to open it on a desktop. On my phone the sidebar doesn't show up

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

So don't use the about page? All the images don't work anymore

gbtami commented 5 years ago

Sry, my bad. I'm still learning to configure docsify. I was experimenting with alias. Of course it doesn't work for image links and my browser cheated me showing images from cache. Should work now.

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

Xiangqi guide is up now. I was inconsistent with the images and will need to fix them, but they still work overall

gbtami commented 5 years ago

This is awesome, thx a lot!

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

I updated the images now. Next up for the Wiki I guess would be all the chess variants. I asked Jarl if he would be willing to provide some strategy if possible :)

gbtami commented 5 years ago

Good idea! :)

gbtami commented 5 years ago

Btw. I thought you want to use your new pieces in movement images similar to Shogi-Guide. If you don't want, no problem, just noticed this difference.

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

I was considering it, but most guides actually don't use images for xiangqi because the movements are very straightforward (unlike in shogi which has more pieces and more unique moves). At some point I can probably redo the images I used from Wikipedia with my pieces instead, but I figured these would be good enough for now. ;)

gbtami commented 5 years ago

Deployed first version of your Variants Guide (fixed image links). Looks great!

gbtami commented 5 years ago

In Seirawan section it say: "Instead, when a piece in a player’s first rank moves, these pieces may optionally come into the square evacuated by that piece."

Shouldn't it be: "Instead, when a piece in a player’s first rank moves the very first time(!), these pieces may optionally come into the square evacuated by that piece."

And maybe a sentence something like "If you move all your officers without gating H/A you lose the right to introduce/use them later." I'm not sure about the wording. What do you think?

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

You're right, I totally forgot to mention that! I updated the guide (and also threw on a little strategy)

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

I also added some strategy to other variants courtesy of Jarl

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

Suggestion now that most games (except for Makruk and Sittuyin) are covered... Maybe rename the "About" button at the top to "About / How to Play"?

gbtami commented 5 years ago

Maybe better to make a new button "How to play". I'm still hesitating...

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

Maybe you can poll the audience and see what they'd like :)

gbtami commented 5 years ago

Made a new button for "How to play".

gbtami commented 5 years ago

Updated Xiangqi-Guide is wonderful! Deployed.

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

Guides are committed for Makruk and Sittuyin now

gbtami commented 5 years ago

Updated Shogi-Guide with link to "Peter Heine Nielsen on Shogi" article

CouchTomato87 commented 5 years ago

Makruk and Sittuyin guides are now updated with Entitled-Untitled's additions

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