Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/How-to-Customise-Open–Source-Language-Games

This is an introduction to the customisation of open-source language games for non-programmers. Use 'search in page' to find the lines quickly.

In the description, 'fit' means finding and duplicating the existing code and modify it to fit your new language.

For JavaScript games, they are usually opened with index.html.

In progress.

Scrabble

https://github.com/edlerd/scrabble

change the word list

• /dict/

Change the lists.

change the letter frequency and value

• • /config/english.jsonp
  • /config/german.jsonp
  • /multiplayer/game/config/english.jsonp
  • /multiplayer/game/config/german.jsonp

Change the frequency by repeatance of letter in LETTER_STASH; change the value by changing values in POINTS_PER_LETTER.

add a language

• /config/
  1. add a language with word list
• /index.html
  1. fit

     class="language_selector"

• • /game.js
  • /multiplayer/game/game.js
  1. fit

     LANGUAGE_CONFIG;

  2. fit

     LANG_ENGLISH

  3. fit

     ENGLISH_CONFIG_URL

  4. fit

     function getConfigUrl()

• /multiplayer/config.php
  1. fit

     'language/English.php'

• /multiplayer/0_register.php
  1. find

     player->language = in_array;

     , add the language in

     [ LANGUAGE_ENGLISH, LANGUAGE_GERMAN ]

  2. fit

     LANGUAGE_ENGLISH, LANGUAGE_GERMAN

• /multiplayer/1_matchmaker.php
  1. find

     $game->stashLetters

     , replace the line with

     $game->stashLetters = array_values(switch($player->language){"english":English::LETTER_STASH; break;"german":German::LETTER_STASH; break;}

  2. fit the line