Clairvoyance Game Invitations Tutorial
In yesterday’s Clairvoyance Game Tutorial, with our Clairvoyance Game, really a game for two, downplayed invitations to the end of the blog posting blurb. But really, invitations are the “be all and end all” for a two player game shared over the Internet and just using a “PHP and HTML/Javascript” level of sophistication.
And, of course, two days later (when we think it should have only been “one day later”), it might be me, but making this work for email or SMS invitations was not trivial, partly because …
- we launched into this “phase two public invitational sharing” on a false premise … our “phase one window.open and window.opener” Javascript logics were flawed (further into the logic than the first foray, shall we say) … bad news … we reckon one out of two days “getting there” would have to be put down to the lack of testing on day one … whereas …
- our thought that “phase two” is just phase one window.open and window.opener transfers to PHP writes Javascript equivalents was “more or less” true, but we all know “programming life” throws up unexpected roadblocks
… and that is the excuse today, which we are sticking to … so there, ngaaahhhh!
This calls into play the importance, often, of “project planning”, and the compartmentalizing of testing, including really tight unit testing, especially if your software plan has so much dependency in “day two” on the “day one” quality. As far as that goes, in our defence, regarding a networking web application, that this Clairvoyance Game “more or less is” (though yesterday’s work simplistically pared that down so that we never needed more than our local MAMP Apache/PHP web server involved) sometimes you find it is hard to recognize “units” within the big picture.
And so “day two” and “day three” were all about “online invitation” logic for email or SMS invitations in …
- a changed second draft Clairvoyance Game helped out by …
- a changed PHP second draft interlocutor
Previous relevant Clairvoyance Game Tutorial is shown below.
Clairvoyance Game Tutorial
Are you sixth sensical? Can you read tea leaves? If it’s one out of two, that will do.
We’re starting down the road to a new …
Clairvoyance Game
… today, that on today’s first draft, as a design for two players …
- starts you playing yourself, or a nearby other player willing to share windows on your one common web browser incarnation …
- kind of ludicrous on this day one but the building blocks are there, they being …
- HTML and Javascript parent … talking to …
- PHP interlocutor
… which we’re going to extend, on day two, simulating what a window.open and window.opener (just on client) can do, just with a few more calls, and sleeping
Two players take it in turns …
- selecting a Zener Card the other player is asked to guess
- other player trying to guess that Zener Card selected
… to score, or not, in this first draft Clairvoyance Game helped out by PHP first draft interlocutor.
In days to come, we think we’ll also be coding for email or SMS invitations to play, as well. This will be old news to some of you telepathic genii.
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