A system for WLAN supported simulation games. It is optimized for 15 to 25 players in five groups.

You need a server with Python 3.4.x, Virtual Python Environment builder 1.11.x (optional, but recommended) and an actual webbrowser with support for HTML5 and CSS3. On the server you have to install this application and its dependencies (Django 1.7.x and Constance – Dynamic Django settings > 0.6 (Backend: Database)).

At least one player of each group of players needs a client computer with an actual webbrowser.

All client computers and the server need access to a network, e. g. a WLAN.

This is only an example instruction for a Unix system where Python and Git is already installed.

$ git clone https://github.com/normanjaeckel/WLANSimulationGame.git  # You can also extract the downloaded compressed tar archive from GitHub instead of using Git.

$ cd WLANSimulationGame

$ virtualenv .virtualenv --python=python3

$ source .virtualenv/bin/activate  # On Windows use: .virtualenv\Scripts\activate

$ python --version  # Ensure that this returns Python 3.4.x

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

$ python manage.py migrate

$ python manage.py createsuperuser  # You will be prompted for username and password.

$ python manage.py runserver --insecure 0.0.0.0:8000

First you can login as admin user to the admin panel. There the player characters can be created. All configuration values have to be setup in the menu item Constance/Config. Last but not least all playable cards with all texts, owners, targets and scores have to be entered.

Now you can print the cards, the list of all cards, the player descriptions, the game introduction and an access data sheet and give them to the players.

Every group of players gets its own cards (with scores), a list of all cards (without scores), a list of all players with descriptions, a game introduction and its access data sheet.

At the beginning of the game the configuration flag to allow writing messages has to be activated by the game master. Now the players can communicate and deal with the other groups. All messages have to be printed by the game master, because there is intentionally no possibility for the players to receive messages via the interface. All played cards have to be marked as played manually in the interface by the game master.

To load the data of the German example simulation game „Wissen ist Macht“, install the program as mentioned above and run:

$ python manage.py loaddata examples/example_game_de_1/data.json

To load the data of the German example simulation game „Jeder ist seines Glückes ...“, install the program as mentioned above and run:

$ python manage.py loaddata examples/example_game_de_2/data.json

The username of the game master is admin. The password for of the game master and all players is default. All passwords have to be changed before starting the game. You might also want to change the header image by replacing the respective file in wlan_simulation_game/static/images.

WLAN Simulation Game is Free/Libre Open Source Software and distributed under the MIT License, see LICENSE file.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to write me an email to wlansimulationgame [at] normanjaeckel.de.