The Billiards Games Library

Mulambo

Mulambo

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Fellow cue sport enthusiasts!

Over the last couple of years, I collected a big amount of rules for various billiards related games. First I started to print them in pages, but as they grew more and more, this was getting way too much to sort and manage properly. So I started to make a digital collection of the rules I found. Over time, the idea grew on me, to share my gathered knowledge with the community which started my interest in these games. So I started to make a website…

This week my library went online, and I may proudly present it here!

The Billiard Games Library

First things first: this website was only developed on and for desktop computers so far. As this is the only source I could test it without going online. And as I may have some knowledge in web development, but barely any mobile web development, like touch device support, styling for different screen sizes, … I intent to make it better over time though. And if anybody is willing to help, I would be more then glad, because my knowledge of CSS is a bit small to be honest 😄

Secondly, as this subforum is intended for the 300 ways book, I want to thank the author of it. I started collecting rules before I knew the book existed, but when I found references to it online, it sparked a huge drive in me and my collecting grew way more serious. Even though I do not have a copy myself, as they are quite hard to find in Europe, I still got a lot of names for games which helped me a lot in finding new sources!

Thanks for your time, critique, suggestions, and I am looking forward to any further discussion about my research project!
 
Mulambo said:
Fellow cue sport enthusiasts!

Over the last couple of years, I collected a big amount of rules for various billiards related games. First I started to print them in pages, but as they grew more and more, this was getting way too much to sort and manage properly. So I started to make a digital collection of the rules I found. Over time, the idea grew on me, to share my gathered knowledge with the community which started my interest in these games. So I started to make a website…

This week my library went online, and I may proudly present it here!

The Billiard Games Library

First things first: this website was only developed on and for desktop computers so far. As this is the only source I could test it without going online. And as I may have some knowledge in web development, but barely any mobile web development, like touch device support, styling for different screen sizes, … I intent to make it better over time though. And if anybody is willing to help, I would be more then glad, because my knowledge of CSS is a bit small to be honest 😄

Secondly, as this subforum is intended for the 300 ways book, I want to thank the author of it. I started collecting rules before I knew the book existed, but when I found references to it online, it sparked a huge drive in me and my collecting grew way more serious. Even though I do not have a copy myself, as they are quite hard to find in Europe, I still got a lot of names for games which helped me a lot in finding new sources!

Thanks for your time, critique, suggestions, and I am looking forward to any further discussion about my research project!
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Thank you for your time in creating this website. I'm looking forward to new games and the opportunity learning ways to use some of the specialized ball sets that I have.
 
Thanks! I hope I can teach myself mobile web design fast enough, to give all my visitors a pleasant experience. So far iPads seem to be not that good with displaying it well. Especially the menu keeping focus and staying open is very annoying, and I try to fix it next week 🙃

I wish you a lot of fun with the games I found 😃
 
If moderators want to move it, I am fine because I have no clue where this might fit best 😊

I just hope that I get more replies, as they are quite scarce after the first week. Maybe when people read my rules more carefully or played with some of them. I thought maybe I get more rules in here as well, or people might correct me on some mistakes which I may have made on the existing ones so far. I proof read it like 3x already, but I have over 700 rules there, and English is not my mother tongue as well, so I assume I must still have missed a few of those. I also struggled with understanding a few of the old rules before 1900, because of the older English and the used letters in the books. So I will happily take any criticism and help in getting errors out as well!

So far I did not think about an App. I am a Desktop Web App developer for work. That‘s my usual environment. I struggled a lot already with getting good mobile support into it as well. Still have to improve the website and learn new stuff to make it better. I never made any Apps, and as this is a different kind of technology, I am not sure what the workload would be to make one as well. My website is designed in a way though, to have something like game datasheets, which then get interpreted and displayed. So I would only need an App frontend for it, however hard this might be. And I have no clue about any invovled things like App security, device compatibility ,…
 
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