DukeChess Demo

This is a demo of my favourite boardgame The Duke.

• Desktop version:

  • Tech stack: Godot

• Web app version 1:

  • Front-end: React
  • Back-end: Node.js with Socket.IO and Redis

• Web app version 2 (deprecated):

  • Front-end: jQuery
  • Back-end: Java 7 with Tomcat 7 WebSocket

How to play?

Game rules

You can get the full rules from here. For your convenience, a movement reference is provided here.

Online version

This game is available here to play.

Docker version

• Pull the image: docker pull zjbthomas/dukechess-godot-web
• Run the container: docker run --rm -p 80:80 zjbthomas/dukechess-godot-web
• Visit http://127.0.0.1:80/

⚠️ Microsoft Edge users: Due to security policies, localhost may not work correctly. Please use http://127.0.0.1:80/ instead.

How to deploy web app version 1?

Run it locally

• Clone the project.
• Make sure you have npm and node (Node.js) installed.
• Go to the root directory of the project, and run npm install in command prompt to install all dependencies.
• (Optional) Modify index.js" and "dukechess/index.html" for port and path.
• (Optional) This project is originally designed on Windows. For Linux, please modify paths to the following files:
  • Path to "Chess.xml" in "dukechess/js-backend/chess/ChessFactory.js";
  • Path to "Player.properties" in "dukechess/js-backend/flow/Player.js"
• Run node index.js at the root directory.
• Visit http://host:port/path (the default is http://localhost:80/) on two or more pages and enjoy!

Build it yourself

• You need "0_babel.bat" to preprocess JSX.
• You need "1_terser.bat" to minify JavaScript for Production.
• More details can be found here.

Chess Demo

This code is also adapted for here. Chess is available here to play.