Domain models for starting a game

[metalalive]

Discuss the domain layer for starting the game and how they interacts with each other,

Prerequisite

• The relevant endpoint in current Open API doc /games/{gameId}/start , PATCH method.
• Note this task is dependent on the issue Add API endpoint for starting a game #12
• Check out the rule book for those who don't know rules of the game

Possible models / entities

The Board

• Relic deck , places some Relic cards .
• Player deck , places all available / remaining player cards
  • player cards consists of some Relic cards, 44 Clue cards, and 4 Evil-Stirs cards
  • note Relic cards are split to the 2 decks , depending on number of players in the game
• Player discard pile , initially empty , collects all discarded player cards
• Summoning deck , Summoning discard pile , similar usage as player deck above
  • Note the discard decks may not be domain model , the backend server does not need to keep history of discarded cards
• 7 places specifically for The-Old-One cards
• map which describes valid locations and paths between them

Reference

• This Reddit post contains board picture

Cards

Different types of cards can also be different entities

• Relic card
• Clue card
• summoning card
  • attributes : specific location of map
• Evil-Stirs card
• The-Old-One card

Cultist and Shoggoth

• the game model is responsible to keep track of number of available ones
• TODO

Turns / Steps / Actions

• each player takes turn, 3 steps in his / her turn
• the first step is to do 4 actions , then draw card(s) from Player deck and Summoning deck
• the game model is responsible to record the order of player turns

Workflow

• Always choose Cthulhu Card, then randomly chosen 6 cards from rest of the 12 The-Old-One cards
  • Cthulhu Card is placed at the rightmost place, the chosen cards randomly occupy rest of the 6 places
• Assign some cultists and one Shoggoth to a location of the map , depending on the summoning cards you draw
  • then discard the face-up / drawn summoning cards
• Each player choose one Investigator Card , and initially has 4 sanity tokens
• All players initially are moved to train station in Arkham of the map
• discard number of Clue cards, according to difficulty level previously configured
• choose some Relic cards , shuffle them with Clue cards, placed the shuffled cards to Player deck
  • place rest of the Relic cards to Relic deck
  • deal some cards from Player deck to each player's hand (hand limit : 8 cards)
• shuffle all Evil-Stirs cards with the cards in the Player deck , in the way described in the rule book

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Anyone is welcome to leave your comment for how we can implement this,
thanks

[metalalive]

I am designing the card model which will be stored in backend server,
and seeking for the detail of each Relic / Clue / Summoning / Evil-Stir card on the internet,
in order to extract essential data to save in backend server.

For example , when flipping over a summoning card, it indicates that one more cultist will be placed to certain location of the map .

So far I got the Figma canvas maintained by @wingtkw , which includes all Summoning cards and The-Old-One cards . Also I read the rule book , it is a user guide so does not reveal enough detail (for this game project development)

My questions :

• where to find detail of each Relic / Clue card ?
• does each Clue card only contain name of the town ? and what else is there ?
  • e.g. Dunwich, Kingsport
• are all Relic cards distinct from each other ? any of them could be duplicate ?
  • answered by myself, a random good guy post this Reddit thread , appreciate his / her comment
  • how does each of them affect / change the game state ? <- I'll spend time studying this
• does each of the 4 Evil-Stirs cards contain different steps / instructions that changes game state ? and how ?

I guess such information might not be public due to the fact the board game is a commercial product $$ .

Is there anyone who played the game and can share the detail to me ?
will appreciate any reply.

Maybe @wingtkw or @KalpasWang can answer the question ?
Thanks

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update

Found play-through video , will spend time checking this out

[KalpasWang]

I remember @wingtkw had this game.

also YouTube has some unboxing videos, in both English and Chinese, which might give you some details.

Thank you for your hard work 😊😊😊

[metalalive]

@KalpasWang ,
if you are still interested with the code contribution to this project,
is it OK for you to help to collect the detail of Evil-Stir cards before wingtkw's reply ??
It will be useful for front-end app development
because players also need to know the instructions on each evil-stir card they draw.

[KalpasWang]

according to manual, the evil stir cards have following steps:

1. Fight the madness - Roll the Sanity die.
2. Awakening - Reveal the next Old One.
3. A Shoggoth appears - Draw 1 card from the bottom of the Summoning deck and put 1 Shoggoth on the location indicated.
4. Cultists regroup - Shuffle the Summoning discard pile and put the cards on top of the Summoning deck.

中文版：
1.對抗瘋狂 - 投擲一個神智骰子。
2.甦醒 - 翻開下一張古神。
3.修格斯出現 - 抽取召喚牌庫最底下的1張卡牌，放置1個修格斯模型到卡牌所示的地點。
4.邪教徒重組 - 混洗召喚棄牌堆中的卡牌，將其放到召喚牌庫頂上。

[metalalive]

Thanks Kalpas Wang, I saw that section in rule manual.

I am working on board and the-old-one card setup ,
I'll send a PR for this.