Editing PortablePiecepackNotation

The Portable Piecepack Notation (PPN) is a human-readable plaintext file format for storing board games. A preliminary draft of the specification is available at: https://trevorldavis.com/piecepackr/portable-piecepack-notation.html It is currently in active development but a prototype parser is available that can be used to generate diagrams and animations for games written in it. **Warning** the "portable piecepack notation" specification is in alpha and non-reverse-compatible changes will likely be made. It is a good idea to play some games in it to help test it out but probably not a good idea (yet) to mass convert games into this format for long-term storage. == Examples A simple game of Tic-Tac-Toe with no automatic setup: {{{ --- Event: Example Tic-Tac-Toe Game Result: 1-0 ... setup. t@b2 1. S@b2 1... M@a2 {? (1... M@a1)} 2. S@c1 2... M@a3 3. S@a1 3... M@c3 4. S@b1 {X wins} }}} A game of Four Field Kono with automatic setup: {{{ GameType: Four Field Kono 1. b1:b3 1... d3:b3 2. c1:c3 2... a3:c3 3. c2-c1 3... b4:b2 4. a1-b1 4... b3:b1 5. d1:b1 5... c3-c2 6. a2-a3 6... b2:d2 7. a3-b3 7... c4-c3 8. c1-d1 8... d4-d3 9. b1-b2 9... d2:b2 10. b3-a3 10... b2-b1 {Player 1's loss is assured with the separation of their two remaining pieces and they should resign in a real game} 11. a3-a2 11... b1-c1 12. d1-d2 12... c1-d1 13. a2-a3 13... a4-b4 14. a3-a4 14... b4-c4 15. a4-b4 15... c4-d4 16. b4-a4 16... d4:d2 {Player 2 wins} }}} == Prototype Parser There is a prototype parser that has been made available in the [[https://www.trevorldavis.com/ppgames ppgames]] R package. One can read in games with {{{read_ppn}}}, make image diagrams of moves with {{{plot_move}}}, make plaintext Unicode diagrams of moves with {{{cat_move}}}, or make a GIF animation of a game with {{{animate_game}}}. {{{plot_move}}} and {{{animate_game}}} can (optionally) be passed a [[piecepackr]] "configuration list" in order to customize the appearance of the piecepack in the images. == PPN viewer web app The {{{ppgames}}} package includes a PPN viewer web app. The [[https://www.ludism.org Center for Ludic Synergy]] graciously hosts an instance of the viewer: http://www.ludism.org:3838/ppn-viewer/

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