Tutorial hearts

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Introduction

Using this tutorial, you can build a complete working game on the BGA environment: Hearts.

Before you read this tutorial, you must:

• Read the overall presentations of the BGA Framework (see here).
• Know the rules for Hearts
• Some-what know the languages used on BGA: PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Setup you development environment First Steps with BGA Studio

Create your first game

If you have not already, you have to create a project in BGA Studio. For this tutorial you can create a project heartsYOUNAME where YOUNAME is your developer login name. You can also re-use the project you have created for "First Steps" tutorial above. With the initial skeleton of code provided initially, you can already start a game from the BGA Studio.

Find and start the game in turn based mode, make sure it works.

Second modify the text in heartsYOUNAME_heartsYOUNAME.tpl, reload the page in the browser and make sure your ftp sync works as expected. Note: if you have not setup auto-sync do it now, manually copying files is a no-starter.

Update game infos and box graphics

Even it does not nothing yet I always start with making sure game looks descent in the game selector, meaning it has nice box graphics and information is correct. For that we need to edit gameinfos.inc.php

To be continued...