freedice

A web-based implementation of Liar's Dice that supports multi-player games. Communication is supported via e-mail and the interface has custom views for mobile devices and bots.

Introduction

The following are the basic steps to get started with freedice:

1. Check out trunk to a PHP-enabled directory
2. Create a new MySQL database (it is recommended not to use an existing db, as the DB schema does not use any sort of namespacing to avoid collisions with existing tables)
3. Import the database schema in common/private/db
4. In the common/private/lib directory, copy+paste all *-config.inc.php.default files to *-config.inc.php, open, and fill out relevant configuration-variable values (should be self-explanatory)
5. Go to the URL and have fun!

Useful Notes

• If e-mail communication is enabled for a game, all players will be spammed after every game action (assuming sendmail, or equivalent, is properly configured with PHP)
• By setting the blank variable to Y for a page, a machine-readable (ini) format is supplied

Acknowledgments

• I developed this Liar's Dice implementation while a grad student in John Laird's research group at the University of Michigan. I also helped develop an iOS app based upon this game, which uses a Soar agent for opponent(s).