Free board games in the browser. Play alone against the house right away, or start a table and send friends the link. No accounts, no adverts, no timers, and nothing sold.
-New here? Wiz-War is the friendliest place to start, and a game can be over in minutes. Dip is the long game.
Steal treasure. Blast through walls. Outwit your friends.
2 to 6 players, or solo against the automaton
An unofficial rebuild of Tom Jolly's 1993 board game
- -Wizards duel with their hands, and the right run of gestures is a spell.
2 to 12 players, or solo against a rival wizard
Richard Bartle's pencil-and-paper duel, 1977
- -The Viking board game of a king breaking for safety and a ring of attackers closing in.
2 players, or solo against the housecarl
The Norse tafl game, by the Copenhagen rules or Linnaeus's 1732 Tablut
- -Seven powers share one map, and none of them has to keep its word. Other maps seat five or ten.
2 to 10 players, depending on the map, or solo against the house's envoys
An unofficial rebuild of Allan B. Calhamer's 1959 Diplomacy
- -Chess on three boards, with a Dragon in the air above your King and a Basilisk in the earth below.
2 players, or solo against the drake
An unofficial rebuild of Gary Gygax's 1985 Dragonchess, from Dragon Magazine No. 100
- -The games are free and will stay free. They run on small servers that cost a few dollars a month, and anyone who wants to chip in toward the hosting can do so at ko-fi.com/kestrelsnest. Chipping in unlocks nothing, and nothing is held back without it.
+The games are free and will stay free. They run on small servers that cost a few dollars a month, and anyone who wants to chip in toward the hosting can do so at ko-fi.com/kestrelsnest. Chipping in unlocks nothing, and the games are the same for everyone.
diff --git a/template/deploy/Caddyfile.tmpl b/template/deploy/Caddyfile.tmpl index 9b270fb..356ad54 100644 --- a/template/deploy/Caddyfile.tmpl +++ b/template/deploy/Caddyfile.tmpl @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ __HOST__ { header @immutable Cache-Control "public, max-age=31536000, immutable" @mutable not path /_app/immutable/* header @mutable Cache-Control "no-cache" - try_files {path} {path}.html /index.html + try_files {path} {path}.html /shell.html file_server } } diff --git a/template/deploy/deploy.sh b/template/deploy/deploy.sh index b2c9bc7..594267a 100755 --- a/template/deploy/deploy.sh +++ b/template/deploy/deploy.sh @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ rsync -az --delete --filter='P _app/immutable/*' \ # it needs only its code and the engine. Ledgers live outside this tree. rsync -az --delete --exclude='/server/node_modules' \ --include='/server/***' --include='/src/' --include='/src/lib/' --include='/src/lib/game/***' --include='/src/lib/net/' --include='/src/lib/net/view.ts' \ - --include='/deploy/' --include='/deploy/__SLUG__.service' --include='/deploy/__SLUG__.cron' --include='/deploy/*.sh' --include='/deploy/traffic.py' \ + --include='/deploy/' --include='/deploy/__SLUG__.service' --include='/deploy/__SLUG__.cron' --include='/deploy/*.sh' --include='/deploy/Caddyfile.tmpl' --include='/deploy/traffic.py' \ --exclude='*' \ ./ "root@$HOST:/opt/__SLUG__/app/" @@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ ssh "root@$HOST" ' systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable --now __SLUG__ systemctl restart __SLUG__ + # The site file is rendered from the template on every deploy, with the address line the box was set up with. + ADDR=$(head -1 /etc/caddy/sites/__SLUG__.caddy | sed "s/ {\$//") + sed "s|__HOST__|$ADDR|" /opt/__SLUG__/app/deploy/Caddyfile.tmpl > /etc/caddy/sites/__SLUG__.caddy + caddy validate --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile >/dev/null + # Validation as root touches the access logs; Caddy runs as caddy and must own them. + chown -R caddy:caddy /var/lib/caddy systemctl reload caddy # "active" means only that the process started: wait for it to answer HTTP, # so a server that dies loading its code fails the deploy instead of looping. diff --git a/template/src/lib/components/Hall.svelte b/template/src/lib/components/Hall.svelte index 8bd05c7..415ad5f 100644 --- a/template/src/lib/components/Hall.svelte +++ b/template/src/lib/components/Hall.svelte @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ {/snippet} {#snippet aboutTally()} {#if told} -Counting…
{/if} @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ {/if}The games of Kestrel's Hall are free and will stay free. They run on small servers that cost a few dollars a month, and anyone who wants to chip in toward the hosting can do so at - ko-fi.com/kestrelsnest. Chipping in unlocks nothing, and nothing is held back without it. + ko-fi.com/kestrelsnest. Chipping in unlocks nothing, and the games are the same for everyone.
__NAME__ is its designer's.
diff --git a/template/src/routes/+layout.ts b/template/src/routes/+layout.ts index a3ded22..64db8f3 100644 --- a/template/src/routes/+layout.ts +++ b/template/src/routes/+layout.ts @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -// Everything happens in the browser against the game server, so nothing is rendered on the -// server. Each route is prerendered as an empty shell that the client fills in. +// Everything happens in the browser against the game server, so by default a route is +// prerendered as an empty shell that the client fills in. The hall, the rules and the guide +// turn rendering on in their own +page.ts, since their text is the same for everyone. export const ssr = false; export const prerender = true; diff --git a/template/src/routes/+page.ts b/template/src/routes/+page.ts new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3634166 --- /dev/null +++ b/template/src/routes/+page.ts @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +// The page is text that reads the same for everyone, so it is rendered at build time and served whole; +// the browser-only state it shows (held seats, the saved name) fills in once the script runs. +export const ssr = true; diff --git a/template/src/routes/guide/+page.ts b/template/src/routes/guide/+page.ts new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3634166 --- /dev/null +++ b/template/src/routes/guide/+page.ts @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +// The page is text that reads the same for everyone, so it is rendered at build time and served whole; +// the browser-only state it shows (held seats, the saved name) fills in once the script runs. +export const ssr = true; diff --git a/template/src/routes/rules/+page.ts b/template/src/routes/rules/+page.ts new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3634166 --- /dev/null +++ b/template/src/routes/rules/+page.ts @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +// The page is text that reads the same for everyone, so it is rendered at build time and served whole; +// the browser-only state it shows (held seats, the saved name) fills in once the script runs. +export const ssr = true; diff --git a/template/vite.config.ts b/template/vite.config.ts index 9b8c1e4..4a01a0b 100644 --- a/template/vite.config.ts +++ b/template/vite.config.ts @@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ export default defineConfig({ runes: ({ filename }) => (filename.split(/[/\\]/).includes('node_modules') ? undefined : true) }, // A static build: Caddy serves files and proxies /api and /ws to the game server. - adapter: adapter({ fallback: 'index.html' }) + // The fallback is the empty shell Caddy serves for a room address; it is not index.html, so the + // hall's own prerendered page is not overwritten by it. + adapter: adapter({ fallback: 'shell.html' }) }) ], server: {