Eole is an online board games website for people who want to play to their favorite board game, but don't find an online version of the game.
It is an open-source project, and a free web application.
It aims to be an oasis for both board game players and developers.
Eole Api uses an extended version of Silex which nicely handle websocket topics, push server based on ZMQ... So I decided to "extract" this component as a standalone library. I named it Sandstone, it is open-source, and it is on Github.
As is, Eole is just a game platform, and provides (or will provides in futur) features like:
The project consists on a PHP Rest Api, working together with a websocket server for real-time notifications, and a front-side AngularJS application.
The Api provides a Rest Api and a websocket server for real-time notification (i.e a player made a move).
It is built with following technologies/libraries:
The AngularJS project provides a front-side application.
It is built with following technologies/libraries:
Eole architecture allows to be extended easily by adding:
So games can be developed independently of Eole domain and components, and then just create a layer/bridge to extend Eole with your game endpoints, topics...