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I wonder how many other companies had that same thought.

I haven't seen any good systems on Github. We're making a very modular framework -- eventually a Javascript client & server could share the same .JS file for game rules, just swap it out.

Most of the game engines I've seen either do too much or are too specialized.

Why would you assume it would be on Github?

It's the most popular open-source repo site, AFAIK. If it's not open source, it does me no good.

https://github.com/ludamad/boarders was a start on trying to implement off of the Zillions of Games format

My point was not that it would mean there is existing code you can leverage--as open-source is exceedingly rare in games development--my point was that you are likely entering a saturated market.

Some time ago I saw this one: http://www.vassalengine.org/

It has an amazing number of "modules": games implemented on it.

It is written in Java.

Hey thank you! I tried to open a vmod file but it crashed my terminal.. we're looking to make the rule-set human readable as well as machine readable with the above repo.

Just a heads up, but Games Workshop went after the vassal guys pretty hard when people started uploading 40k army stats. I would be very careful with anything GW related just FYI.

Not sure how it would go today (they're giving away licenses to anybody with a pulse and an iOS app on their resume right now), but back in the day they were very protective of their IP.

Thanks for the heads up. I was hoping people would make their own board games; good to know!

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