JoclyMatch

A small game server to play Jocly games, without database or tracking.

This site is originally based on an experiment by Jérôme Choain, also known as @jcfrog, allowing users to play Jocly games against each other in order to compensate for the shutdown of the jocly.com server.

The original version has been extended, and the source code is available on GitHub:

https://github.com/fhoudebert/joclymatch

Jocly is an open-source board game library created by Michel Gutierrez. More than a hundred games are available.

Development has been restarted with contributions from HG Muller and François Houdebert. The source code is available here:

https://github.com/fhoudebert/jocly2

With joclymatch, you should be able to install this small game server anywhere.

You can decide whether the following points are advantages or disadvantages:

• no database: all you need is a web server with PHP. Games are stored as simple readable text files (JSON);
• no login, no password (this may change in the future). Absolutely no personal data is stored, only the moves played during games;
• no advertising, no tracking;
• a very basic interface that simply allows you to:
  • play alone against the computer;
  • create a game: you will then need to send a link to your opponent;
  • work with a classic periodic polling system.

You can cheat: anyone with the correct link can play either side (A or B).

But we are gentlemen, aren't we?

It is also possible to use the push version instead of polling, if you have a VPS running a Node.js server.