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Note: Please DO NOT translate Studio Documentation, so that there can be one place where you can find the last information available.

== What is Board Game Arena Studio? ==

'''Board Game Arena Studio''' is a platform to build online board game adaptation using the Board Game Arena platform.

It is open to any gamer with development skills :)

See announcement here:
http://forum.boardgamearena.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1973

== Discover BGA Studio in 5 presentations ==

Why, how, what... to start discovering BGA Studio, we prepared 5 "powerpoint" presentations for you:

* [http://www.slideshare.net/boardgamearena/5-reasons-why-you-should-use-bga-studio-for-your-online-board-game 5 reasons why you should use BGA Studio for your online board game]
* [http://www.slideshare.net/boardgamearena/the-8-steps-to-create-a-board-game-on-board-game-arena The 8 steps to create a board game on Board Game Arena]
* [http://www.slideshare.net/boardgamearena/the-bga-framework-at-a-glance The BGA Framework at a glance]
* [http://www.slideshare.net/boardgamearena/bga-studio-focus-on-bga-game-state-machine Focus on BGA game state machine]
* [http://www.slideshare.net/boardgamearena/bga-studio-guidelines BGA developers guidelines]

== How to join the BGA developer team? ==

Please see this page: [[How to join BGA developer team?]]

== Great, I'm in! ... How should I start? ==

If you didn't already, check the presentations at the top of this page to get the basics.

Then, you should checkout the [[First steps with BGA Studio]] to make sure that runs fine.

After that, we advise you to take a peek at one or both of these two game creation tutorials:
* [[Tutorial reversi]]
* [[Tutorial gomoku]]

Then start editing files and see what happens! ;)

If you have any questions, please check out the '''[[Studio FAQ]]''' first, then if you didn't find the answer you were looking for, please post your question on the [http://forum.boardgamearena.com/viewforum.php?f=12 '''development forum'''].

== BGA Studio documentation ==

=== BGA Studio Framework reference ===

This part of the documentation focuses on the development framework itself: functions and methods available to build your game.

[[Studio file reference|File structure of a BGA game]]

==== Game logic ====

* [[Main game logic: yourgamename.game.php]]
* [[Your game state machine: states.inc.php]]
* [[Game database model: dbmodel.sql]]
* [[Players actions: yourgamename.action.php]]
* [[Game material description: material.inc.php]]
* [[Game statistics: stats.inc.php]]

==== Game interface ====

* [[Game interface logic: yourgamename.js]]
* [[Game art: img directory]]
* [[Game interface stylesheet: yourgamename.css]]
* [[Game layout: view and template: yourgamename.view.php and yourgamename_yourgamename.tpl]]

==== Other components ====

* [[Translations]] (how to make your game translatable)
* [[Game options and preferences: gameoptions.inc.php]]
* [[Game replay]]

=== BGA Studio game components reference ===

Game components are useful tools you can use in your game adaptations.

* [[Deck]]: a PHP component to manage cards (deck, hands, picking cards, moving cards, shuffle deck, ...).
* [[Counter]]: a JS component to manage a counter that can increase/decrease (ex: player's score).
* [[Draggable]]: a JS component to manage drag'n'drop actions.
* [[ExpandableSection]]: a JS component to manage a rectangular block of HTML than can be displayed/hidden.
* [[Scrollmap]]: a JS component to manage a scrollable game area (useful when the game area can be infinite. Examples:  Saboteur or Takenoko games).
* [[Stock]]: a JS component to manage and display a set of game elements displayed at a position.
* [[Wrapper]]: a JS component to wrap a  &lt;div&gt; element around his child, even if these elements are absolute positioned.
* [[Zone]]: a JS component to manage a zone of the board where several game elements can come and leave, but should be well displayed together (See for example: token's places at Can't Stop).

=== BGA Studio user guide ===

This part of the documentation is a user guide for the BGA Studio online development environment.

* [[Tools and tips of BGA Studio]]

* [[Practical debugging]]

* [[Studio back-office]]

* [[Studio FAQ]]

== Other resources ==

[http://forum.boardgamearena.com/viewforum.php?f=12 Development forum]

[http://forum.boardgamearena.com/viewforum.php?f=4 Bugs forum]