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Chu Seireigi. Variant of Chu Shogi playable with drops. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Apr 25 07:02 AM UTC in reply to François Houdebert from Wed Apr 24 09:15 PM:

I guess the drop model still needs some tweeking. The square painting on the hand ranks should be the same as that of the other hand squares. Now there seems to be no coloring at all, so that the rim texture shines through. I suppose the logical way to do this is that the square-painting array that has to be defined in the game's view file should include the extra ranks.

It is also not clear to me why the 'counter piece' in the lower-right corner is larger than the others.

[Edit] The array boardLayout defined in the view file is accessed in two places in grid-board-view.js, inside nested loops over rows and columns. The loop over rows was modified to skip the extra hand ranks. I suppose this was a bad idea; especially in the 'paintCells' function it should have run over all ranks, requiring the boardLayout to also specify how the cells in these extra hand ranks should be colored. There is a second routine 'paintInCoordinates' that also loops over all cells, which does more complex things and might need more subtle modification than just changing the loop limits. But it seems this function is not normally used.

The handLayout[-1] in the view file appears to have a 16 where there should be a 17, which causes misplacement of the 'counter piece' on 15 rather than 16.