About

This is the associated website for the piecepackr, ppcli, ppdf, ppgamer, ppn, pprules, and piecenikr R packages.

• piecepackr is an R package designed to make configurable board game graphics. It can be used with the ggplot2, grid, rayrender, rayvertex, and rgl graphic systems to make board game diagrams, board game animations, and custom Print & Play layouts. By default it is configured to make piecepack game diagrams, animations, and Print & Play layouts but can be configured to make graphics for other game systems.
• ppcli is an R package to generate plaintext board game graphics (e.g. for a command-line interface).
• ppdf is an R package that contains functions that return tibble data frames with (possibly random) setup data for over a hundred board games playable with public domain game systems.
• ppgamer is an R package with a Fuji-san solver.
• ppn is an R package with functions to parse and visualize games recorded using the “Portable Piecepack Notation” (PPN) format.
• pprules is an R package with functions to generate piecepack rulesets.
• piecenikr contains functions for visualizing Looney Pyramids games.

Some example graphics generated with piecepackr

This website contains several articles of documentation on how to use these R packages as well as some relevant theory and resources plus several demos of the software in action. It also contains the download links for several Print & Play pdfs of the piecepacks configured in the Print & Play demos that can be used to build your own piecepack. Here is a “Site Map” of the articles on this site:

Also consider looking at each of the R packages built-in documentation: