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I'm a tournament Scrabble player and I want to do this for Scrabble. The only choices we have are a very buggy and crappy phone app, made by EA (missing tons of
by cdelsolar 11y ago
I'm a tournament Scrabble player and I want to do this for Scrabble. The only choices we have are a very buggy and crappy phone app, made by EA (missing tons of words) that only allows correspondence play, and a client written in something like Java 5 and hosted on some computer in Romania (http://www.isc.ro http://www.isc.ro) to avoid the copyright issue. The latter recently crashed and wiped out about a year of data because presumably the maintainer did not do backups. I can't even use it because I'd have to downgrade Java on my computer.
There are great open source tools out there for analyzing/simulating games that can be hooked up to the proposed site (http://quackle.org http://quackle.org for example). Both of the aforementioned programs (the EA one, and ISC) have very elementary analysis with nothing close to look-ahead.
I've written a study server at aerolith.org using HTML5/new technologies and am going to add multiplayer soon with Websockets. My time is very limited due to my job, but I'd be willing to help with an effort to recreate something like this amazing site for Scrabble. But again the main issue is the copyright/trademark issue, and the fact that EA has the rights to online Scrabble in North America. If anyone has any ideas it would be awesome.
- dagurp 11y agoWords with friends worked around it by simply using a different name. Also, see this https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/16enap/eli5_why_words_with_friends_is_not_being_sued_by/c7vea2k https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/16enap/e...
- cdelsolar 11y agoThe board and tile distribution of WWF are inferior, as is the dictionary. I'd love to use the original game.
- holoiii 11y agoYou might run into copyright / trademark issues if you use the name 'Scrabble' anywhere though, FYI
- cdelsolar 11y agoCorrect, but I can call it Crossword Game or something like that. The issue is that the word list may or may not be copyrighted (http://www.slate.com/articles/life/gaming/2014/09/major_scrabble_brouhaha_can_you_copyright_a_list_of_words.html http://www.slate.com/articles/life/gaming/2014/09/major_scra...), and that if I use the exact same tile distribution and board configuration I can still be sued. Hell, Hasbro could still C&D if they wanted to even if I'm not infringing at all. But there is no body that owns chess.
- cmaggard 11y agoTake the existing list and add a sixteen-character word to it.
- Happy0 11y agoI've been slowly working on a scrabble web app in my free time very much inspired by lichess (I've actually contributed a couple of features to lichess) over at https://github.com/Happy0/liscrabble https://github.com/Happy0/liscrabble. However, I hadn't intended to do a public deployment of it due to the legal issues that others have already mentioned. I've just been doing it to learn more haskell and to try and get comfortable with front end stuff.