# board-game A tabletop game that involves counters or pieces moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or board, according to a set of rules. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## Creating a Custom Mobile Integration for a Board Game Using Ruby on Rails DevFeed: [Creating a Custom Mobile Integration for a Board Game Using Ruby on Rails]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Craig Hafer Published: 2025-12-04T14:00:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Hashrocket]() Topics: [board-game](), [Ruby on Rails](), [Mobile](), [Tailwind CSS](), [Database](), [Stimulus]() Tags: [board-game-app](), [mobile](), [postgresql](), [rails](), [ruby](), [ruby-on-rails](), [stimulus](), [tailwind]() ### AI overview A tutorial on building a mobile version of the Analyzer mechanism from the 1973 Parker Brothers board game Billionare. The project uses Ruby on Rails, Tailwind, PostgreSQL, and Stimulus, with the goal of supporting a broader library of board game helpers. ### Source excerpt Picture this: you find a charming old board game at a garage sale, bring it home, gather some friends--and snap. The 50-year-old plastic components break instantly. You search the web for help to replace this fun and unique game mechanic but there's nothing to be found. So naturally, you roll up your sleeves and build your own mobile version. No one else does this? Just me? Well, in case you ever find yourself in a similar boat, I figured I would walk you through what I did when building my own mobile integration to the 1973 Parker Brothers classic Billionare. As I said, right when I went to try out this cool "new" board game for the first time, the plastic ends of the Analyzer snapped. The analyzer is basically a plastic rod with 2 floating spinners on them. The spinners, when rotated, will either land with a red face or a green face. You then refer to the chart to see what action to take. I thought this was such a unique way to give a random effect in a game, without relying on dice. It essentially is just a random binary spinner that counts up to 4. Here is what it looks like for reference: So, without any 4 sided die lying around, and not wanting to use a boring random number generator, my brain went right to what it knows best---Ruby on Rails. So without further ado, here's what I did and how you can do something similar yourself. Creating the app Sure, Rails could be considered overkill for such a simple app. But my idea is to allow this project to scale into a whole library of board game helpers that can all live within the same app. So, to start off I ran the old trusty rails new command, with a couple preferences I like to pass in to make my life easier as a developer. rails new board_game_library --css tailwind --database=postgresql One of the main tools I leveraged for this project besides Rails was Tailwind. Tailwind makes styling so easy. Here at Hashrocket Tailwind is pretty standard for all of us, so if you're interested in any tips or tricks, we have ## Building a board game with the TFLite plugin for Flutter DevFeed: [Building a board game with the TFLite plugin for Flutter]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: TensorFlow Blog (noreply@blogger.com) Published: 2023-10-18T17:00:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [The TensorFlow Blog]() Topics: [Flutter](), [TensorFlow Lite](), [Inference](), [Reinforcement learning](), [Tensorflow](), [TensorFlow Agents](), [cross-platform](), [Mobile](), [board-game](), [Android](), [iOS]() Tags: [android](), [building](), [cross-platform](), [flutter](), [games](), [how-to](), [inference](), [ios](), [learn](), [mobile](), [plugin](), [reinforcement-learning](), [tensorflow](), [tensorflow-agents](), [tensorflow-lite](), [tutorial](), [tutorials]() ### AI overview This tutorial shows how to port a TensorFlow Lite reinforcement-learning board game to Flutter. It loads a converted model, runs inference to choose the next move, and renders the game for Android and iOS using the Flutter frontend and TensorFlow Lite plugin. ### Source excerpt Posted by Wei Wei, Developer Advocate In our previous blog posts Building a board game app with TensorFlow: a new TensorFlow Lite reference app and Building a reinforcement learning agent with JAX, and deploying it on Android with TensorFlow Lite, we demonstrated how to train a reinforcement learning (RL) agent with TensorFlow, TensorFlow Agents and JAX respectively, and then deploy the converted TFLite model in an Android app using TensorFlow Lite, to play a simple board game 'Plane Strike'. While these end-to-end tutorials are helpful for Android developers, we have heard from the Flutter developer community that it would be interesting to make the app cross-platform. Inspired by the officially released TensorFlow Lite Plugin for Flutter recently, we are going to write one last tutorial and port the app to Flutter. Since we already have the model trained with TensorFlow and converted to TFLite, we can just load the model with TFLite interpreter: void _loadModel() async { // Create the interpreter _interpreter = await Interpreter.fromAsset(_modelFile); } Then we pass in the user board state and help the game agent identify the most promising position to strike next (please refer to our previous blog posts if you need a refresher on the game rules) by running TFLite inference: int predict(List> boardState) { var input = [boardState]; var output = List.filled(_boardSize * _boardSize, 0) .reshape([1, _boardSize * _boardSize]); // Run inference _interpreter.run(input, output); // Argmax double max = output[0][0 ]; int maxIdx = 0; for (int i = 1; i < _boardSize * _boardSize; i++) { if (max < output[0][i]) { maxIdx = i; max = output[0][i]; } } return maxIdx; } That's it! With some additional Flutter frontend code to render the game boards and track game progress, we can immediately run the game on both Android and iOS (currently the plugin only supports these two mobile platforms). You can find the complete code on GitHub. If you want to dig digger, there ar ## Pivots and Payloads DevFeed: [Pivots and Payloads]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Adam Published: 2018-12-17T00:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [Shostack & Friends Blog]() Topics: [Security](), [board-game]() Tags: [game](), [security]() ### AI overview SANS announced Pivots and Payloads, a board game designed to help players understand penetration-testing methodology, tactics, tools, and defensive setbacks. ### Source excerpt A new game from SANS for understanding pen test methodology, tactics, and tools.