README.md

将棋 Shōgi game by Anna Branco

v0.1.0

This is the experimental development of a 将棋, the Japanese chess game.

Technical Info

This is being developed with React, bootstraped with create-react-app. All styles definitions are using Styled Components. No other external libraries are used, with the exception of Lint definitions.

Current version

This is the first pre-release of the game, including the beta implementation of Mate logics.

Milestones

• piece's movements (0.0.2);
• promotions and their movements (0.0.3)
• capturing and returning captured ingame (0.0.4);
• mate and checkmate (ongoing).

Roadmap to Release 1.0.0

To the full implementation of the first official version of the game, there are still a few milestones to be achieved:

• Implement mate and checkmate;
• Give the player the option to not promote his piece;
• Create a log of movements;
• Include sounds;
• Fix small bugs such as dynamic PropTypes;
• Improve performance and rendering
• Test it on real gaming scenarios;

Future Developments

For the future, after v1.0.0, lots of enhancements are to be developed, such as:

• Allow the player to hide possible movements of the selected piece;
• Allow language selection;
• Changing styles of boards and pieces;
• Allow two players network game using a backend service.
• More to come...