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