Carrom Board Game

By

Shree (Rajshree) B

Evan H

Rita L

Aditi P

Introduction to the Game

• Originated in India
• Also played in other South Asian countries, UK, Germany, Italy, Japan, variants in South Africa and Mexico
• Game pieces: carrom men (coins), striker, queen
• Each player selects a coin of a particular color and must take turns striking their coins into one of the four “pockets” at the corners of the board
• Coins = 1 point, Red coin (queen) = 5 points (must follow queen with another coin)
• Win by pocketing all of your coins + queen and follow

Anatomy of a Carrom Board

Why a Carrom Board simulation?

• Most websites with this game are not as user-friendly
• Add an educational aspect to the game instead of just entertainment
• Promote Carrom Board Game to more people worldwide
• Putting this game on the internet makes it more accessible to people
• Algorithms/patterns found in the game are vital to geometry, group theory, physics, etc.

Our Website

HTML, CSS, Javascript

About Page with History and Math Behind the Game

Main Page with Game

Main Page (index1.html)

• Brief introduction to the game
• Rules
• Start button
• Points tracker
• THE GAME ITSELF
• Review button for users to rate their experience

About Page (about.html)

• History
• Interactive flipcards to add educational value to the game
• History
• Fun facts
• Mathematics (explains the geometry concepts behind the game)

Challenges

Our Solutions

1. Finding an efficient collaborative development platform

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• Determining how to represent each coin piece in the code

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• Saving review input data with each reload of the site

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• Navigating CSS for image overlaps, shadows, special effects, etc.

1. Reached out to our mentor Helen,

researched options (VS Code, Google CoLab, AppScripts), decided on Glitch

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• Researched other game code, mapped out properties of each coin, settled on array

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• Still developing this, will likely employ Node JS or local storage feature of HTML5

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• Looked at API, tested out different tags to represent each element

Our Vision

• Player-computer or multi-player version
• Graphics to create a lifelike board
• Update points tracker using game algorithm
• Redeem points to earn different colored coins, avatars, faster strike speed, badges, etc.
• Expand to other platforms like IOS and Android

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THANK YOU!