Language and Platform for the Generation, Customization and Execution of Card-Based Videogames

Abstract

With the aim of creating a platform that allows the development, customization and execution of our own card games, we embark ourselves on this Final Degree Project of the Videogame Design and Development career, where we analyze, design and implement through an agile methodology, a solution that does not only meet this objective, but expands upon it to obtain the best result possible. To do this, we begin by studying a set of traditional card games with the purpose of abstracting a set of common rules through which we are able to describe them. After deeply analyzing these rules, we obtain the needed information to transform them into our own Domain Specific Language (DSL). The language, combined with an interpreter and a web-based platform, allows us to create, upload, play or download multiple games, customizable both graphically and playable wise, including the possibility of developing our own artificial intelligences for each game. With this, our result is a system full of possibilities with a huge potential growth for the future.