{"id":1328,"date":"2011-08-18T07:53:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T06:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2011-10-05T11:22:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T10:22:27","slug":"yspahan-online-on-boardspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/yspahan-online-on-boardspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Yspahan online on Boardspace"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little over four years ago G\u00fcnther programmed the Windows PC version of Yspahan<\/a> and made the game available here as freeware for all Ystari fans. Meanwhile, Yspahan for Windows has been downloaded more than 30,000 times and is still enjoying great popularity.<\/p>\n

At about the same time on the other side of the Atlantic Dave Dyer’s enthusiasm for the game Zertz<\/a> led to the development of Boardspace<\/a>, a platform for playing boardgames for 2 to 4 players online. The Board Space server handles all communication between the clients and executes the clients of the computer opponents. The actual game software, written in Java,\u00a0runs on the players\u2019 computers.<\/p>\n

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Yspahan auf Boardspace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After implementing many well- and lesser-known strategy games in the style of Zertz, Dave started to add Eurogames such as Medina<\/a> and Containers<\/a>. The latest addition is Yspahan<\/a>, for which Westpark Gamer G\u00fcnther Rosenbaum provided the logic of the AI \u200b\u200bopponent as well as the graphics, both ported from his Windows version of the game.<\/p>\n

Currently, Yspahan is in its testing phase and hence has a few minor restrictions. At the moment there is just one AI opponent and the game for two players is not yet implemented because of the different rules set. But already now, three or four players can compete against each other in a challenging match of Yspahan. And the AI \u200b\u200bplayer can be used to replace a missing human player if needed.<\/p>\n

On Boardspace, there are a total of 80 rooms in which online players can compete against each other. Each room can be configured as a game room with a game of the initiator\u2019s choice. The system maintains a player ranking for the games played comparable to the ELO system in chess, unless you play in a room without scoring. Statistics about a country’s best players are displayed on the entry page. A prerequisite is that one plays as a registered user rather than as a guest. As Dave Dyer’s maintains Boardspace as a hobby project, both registration and playing games are free of charge.<\/p>\n

So why don\u2019t you try your first online game of Yspahan on Boardspace<\/a>. Perhaps you\u2019ll even meet one of the Westpark Gamers…<\/p>\n

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Das Spielbrett von Yspahan online<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yspahan Online Spielertafeln<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little over four years ago G\u00fcnther programmed the Windows PC version of Yspahan and made the game available here as freeware for all Ystari fans. Meanwhile, Yspahan for Windows has been downloaded more than 30,000 times and is still enjoying great popularity. At about the same time on the other side of the Atlantic … Yspahan online on Boardspace<\/span> weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[245,244],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en","tag-boardspace","tag-yspahan"],"views":11420,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}