Studio

Note: Please DO NOT translate Studio Documentation, so that there can be one place where you can find the last information available.

What is Board Game Arena Studio?

Board Game Arena Studio is a platform to build online board game adaptation using the Board Game Arena platform.

It is open to any gamer with development skills :)

See announcement here: http://forum.boardgamearena.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1973

Discover BGA Studio in 5 presentations

Why, how, what... to start discovering BGA Studio, we prepare you 5 "powerpoint" presentations:

• 5 reasons why you should use BGA Studio for your online board game
• The 8 steps to create a board game on Board Game Arena
• The BGA Framework at a glance
• Focus on BGA game state machine
• BGA developers guidelines

How to join BGA developer team?

Please see: How to join BGA developer team?

Great, I'm in! ... How should I start?

If you didn't already, check the presentations at the top of this page to get the basics.

After that, we would advise you to take a peek at one or both of these two game creation tutorials:

• Tutorial reversi
• Tutorial gomoku

Then start editing files and see what happens! ;)

If you have any questions, please ask them on the development forum.

BGA Studio documentation

Studio FAQ

BGA Studio Framework reference

This part of the documentation focus on the development framework itself: functions and methods available to build your game.

File structure of a BGA game

Game logic

• Main game logic: yourgamename.game.php
• Your game state machine: states.inc.php
• Game database model: dbmodel.sql
• Players actions: yourgamename.action.php
• Game material description: material.inc.php
• Game statistics: stats.inc.php

Game interface

• Game interface logic: yourgamename.js
• Game art: img directory
• Game interface stylesheet: yourgamename.css
• Game layout: view and template: yourgamename.view.php and yourgamename_yourgamename.tpl

Other components

• Game options and preferences: gameoptions.inc.php

Studio function reference

BGA Studio user guide

This part of the documentation is a user guide for the BGA Studio online development environment.

Studio back-office

Other resources

Development forum

Bugs forum