Docs for the boardgamers ecosystem
How the boardgamers.space platform works, and how to add your own board game to it.
Get started →Add your game
Write a game engine (any TypeScript/JavaScript — one small API surface) and a viewer, and the platform runs them: matchmaking, clocks, Elo, replays, mobile & desktop — no restart needed to publish or update a game.
Play
Just here to play? The platform hosts asynchronous and live games of Gaia Project, Power Grid, Container, 6nimmt! and more.
Open source
The platform and every game on it are open source — read real engines and viewers for inspiration, and contribute your own.
Adding a game, in four steps
- Architecture — the moving parts your game runs in: web app, API, game-server, viewer iframe.
- Engine API & Viewer API — the two contracts your code implements.
- Tic Tac Toe tutorial — a complete minimal engine + viewer, end to end.
- Adding a game — how a finished game gets registered and hosted on the platform.
Reference pages: game options, preferences & settings · clocks & timing · bot players.
Every page is also available as raw markdown — append .md to its URL, or send Accept: text/markdown. See
/llms.txt for the machine-readable listing.