H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Nov 9, 2018 09:56 PM UTC:
Agreed, Jocly is a brilliant piece of software. Too bad I only discovered it two weeks ago, and that the server went off the air a few days later.
The news is about as bad as it can be: the server will be off line at least until mid 2019. Before it went off the air it was continuously crashing, and too messed up for easy repairs. Mi-g currently has no time to fix it. The 'easy-embedding' method through jquery unfortunately was dependent on the server for fetching the required library scripts, so any website that was using this method shares the fate of the jocly.com server.
I have installed the entire Jocly library on my own server, and ported the demo applets for the variants I had made to use that, rather than the now defunct jocly.com. (Mind you, this is not a replacement for the game server, which was not open source, so there is no connectivity with other users; only the Jocly interface works.) So if you want to play against the Jocly AI, you can do it at http://hgm.nubati.net/jocly .
I implemented some new chess variants there, and the mentioned page allows direct access to those. All standard Jocly variants (i.e. those you get with the sources from Github) still work too, though, and you can switch to them from one of the directly accessible demos. The new variants are:
Agreed, Jocly is a brilliant piece of software. Too bad I only discovered it two weeks ago, and that the server went off the air a few days later.
The news is about as bad as it can be: the server will be off line at least until mid 2019. Before it went off the air it was continuously crashing, and too messed up for easy repairs. Mi-g currently has no time to fix it. The 'easy-embedding' method through jquery unfortunately was dependent on the server for fetching the required library scripts, so any website that was using this method shares the fate of the jocly.com server.
I have installed the entire Jocly library on my own server, and ported the demo applets for the variants I had made to use that, rather than the now defunct jocly.com. (Mind you, this is not a replacement for the game server, which was not open source, so there is no connectivity with other users; only the Jocly interface works.) So if you want to play against the Jocly AI, you can do it at http://hgm.nubati.net/jocly .
I implemented some new chess variants there, and the mentioned page allows direct access to those. All standard Jocly variants (i.e. those you get with the sources from Github) still work too, though, and you can switch to them from one of the directly accessible demos. The new variants are:
More will likely follow soon (CwDA?, Chu Shogi?).