This tutorial builds a massively multiplayer board game in Erlang and HTML5.

The game is based on the old pen and paper game, dots and boxes.

The premise of the game is fairly simple (from Wikipedia):

Starting with an empty grid of dots, players take turns, adding a single horizontal or vertical line between two unjoined adjacent dots. A player who completes the fourth side of a 1×1 box earns one point and takes another turn. (The points are typically recorded by placing in the box an identifying mark of the player, such as an initial). The game ends when no more lines can be placed. The winner of the game is the player with the most points.