Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5 2d2a82034e The about panel is a dialog of tabs, as Wiz-War's is, not a wall of text
"About this game — a labor of love" opens a dialog with the game, the
tally, more games and a way to send word each on a tab of its own
(About.svelte, shared through the kit), instead of one long fold at the
foot of the hall. Arrow keys walk the tabs; Escape or a click outside
closes it; a link to #about opens it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
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Hnefatafl

The Viking board game, in the browser: the attackers must take the king, the king must reach the edge. Tablut, the nine-by-nine game Linnaeus wrote down in 1732, by default, on a board that shows its age; Copenhagen rules on the eleven-by-eleven board, where the king needs a corner, as an option.

Built on the game kit: src/lib/game/ is the game (rules as data in rules.ts, the board's mechanics in board.ts, the engine in index.ts, a short alpha-beta bot in bot.ts), src/lib/components/Board.svelte is the board, and everything else is the kit's hall, tables, gallery, ledgers, reports desk and ops tools. docs/conventions.md is the house style; the guide here departs from it in one way, walking the page in words and one drawn figure rather than screenshots.

npm install && (cd server && npm install)
npm run server      # the game server on port 8789
npm run dev -- --host

Tests: npm test. Deploy: deploy/deploy.sh <ip> after deploy/README.md.

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Hnefatafl, the Viking board game, in the browser: Copenhagen rules and Linnaeus's Tablut, on the game kit.
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