c6ol: Connect6 Online

A web app for playing Connect6 games online, built with Rust frameworks Leptos and axum.

Play Now

An official instance is hosted at c6.zhixia.dev. Please refrain from sending automatic requests without prior notice. Games idle for more than 30 days are subject to removal.

Features

• Easy Setup: Submit a passcode to start a game. Then send a link to your friend, who submits a different passcode to join the game.
• Infinite Board: The board is $2^{16}$ by $2^{16}$ in size, with drag & zoom support. Generally¹, you never worry about hitting the border.
• Analysis (Permanent Link): Click Analyze in the game menu to open a copy of the game in a new tab for analysis. Right click or long press to copy a permanent link. Feel free to share it with others or save it for your collection!
• Requests: Request your opponent to retract the previous move or reset the game (clear the stones and optionally swap colors), or offer a draw (why do this when you have infinite space and time?).
• Manual Claim of Win: Watch your friend not notice their six-in-a-row and win before them!
• Offline Play: You can choose to play offline. An offline game is saved in the browser's local storage.
• Keyboard Control: It's possible to control the app with keyboard only.

Screenshots

Setup (Linux)

Install Rust 1.84+ and Trunk. To develop, run:

git clone https://github.com/yescallop/c6ol
cd c6ol
# In one terminal:
cd server
cargo run
# In another:
cd client
trunk serve --open

To build for deployment, run:

cd client
trunk build --release
cd ../server
cargo build --release
cd ..

To deploy, copy target/release/c6ol-server and client/dist to a directory on the server, cd into it and run:

./c6ol-server --listen [::]:8086 --serve-dir dist --db-file c6ol.db

A Connect6 Online server will be listening at port 8086 on all available interfaces, serving static files under dist, loading games from and saving games to c6ol.db.

Footnotes

1. It is good sportsmanship to start near the center and to place stones near existing ones. ↩