A Dockerfile that builds the bundle and serves it from nginx, matching the
three games already on the site, and the metadata a page needs when it is
somewhere rather than on a laptop: canonical, Open Graph, the two JSON-LD
blocks, and a noscript that describes the game rather than showing an empty
div to anybody who does not run scripts.
No dev proxy, unlike its siblings. They post scores to a shared service and
this one has nothing to post: a game of Diplomacy is not a number, and a
leaderboard reading "reached eleven centres" would be a worse thing to know
about somebody than nothing at all.
The favicon is seven powers round a board in the seven colours the map uses,
with the one supply centre in the middle they are all looking at -- drawn
here rather than drafted in a tool, like every other mark in this
repository.
And a way back out, absolute rather than "/": this is served from a
subdirectory in production and from the root in development, so the relative
answer is right in one of those and points at the game itself in the other.
Coordinates placed by hand, roughly where each province falls in Europe, and
everything else drawn from those and from the adjacency rules. Nothing here
is a picture of anybody's board.
It draws the graph rather than regions, and that was not the first idea. The
first idea was Voronoi cells -- every point belonging to the nearest province
-- which makes a handsome cut-paper board and is wrong. Sixty-five pairs that
border each other in the rules came out with regions that did not touch, and
no amount of moving coordinates fixes it: provinces here interleave. The
Adriatic borders Venice with Trieste between their centres; the Atlantic
borders North Africa around the outside of Spain. Convex cells cannot say
that. A map that shows two regions meeting when the rules say otherwise is
worse than an ugly map -- it is a map that loses you the game.
The tests found three provinces drawn on top of each other and a distance
check of mine that was measuring Europe rather than checking my typing: it
failed fifteen honest placings because oceans are large and Moscow borders
five things. The exact check is that a line exists for every border in the
rules and for no others.
The viewBox is fitted to what is actually drawn. Europe is not rectangular,
and the box the coordinates were typed into left a third of the frame as
empty ocean -- which wastes the one thing this game was given more of than
the others.
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