Generator and uploader for solo boardgame challenges posted to BoardGameGeek.

Currently supports the following games:

• Agropolis
• Cartographers
• Cartographers Heroes
• Dinosaur Island: Rawr & Write
• Dungeon Academy
• Fields of Arle
• Gentes
• Glass Road
• Kingdomino
• On The Underground
• Paper Dungeons
• Rolling Realms
• Sprawlopolis
• The Search for Planet X
• Tiny Towns

scg is built with .NET 6. The latest version of the SDK can be found here.

After successful installation of .NET, open a command prompt and type the following:

This will install/update the latest version of scg as a global tool. Default folder for global tools on windows is: %USERPROFILE%\.dotnet\tools

The following command will generate a new challenge, post a thread on BGG and add an entry to the Solo Challenges geeklist:

scg generate [game] --publish --user [username]

or short

scg [game] -p -u [username]

The following command will generate a new challenge, save it to a file ForumPost.txt and open the default text editor to show it. Nothing will be uploaded to BGG. This needs to be done manually.

scg [game]

All user data is stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\MadCowDevelopment\scg\Games\[game].

Each game contains the following files:

• ForumPost.template - This is the main challenge post template. Customizations can be done here.
• GeeklistPost.template - The template for the generated geeklist entry.
• PreviousChallenges.dat - Scores from previous challenges. Format is <threadId>,<score>,<user>. Either change this file directly or use the command line arguments to add/remove scores.

Add a new entry to the PreviousChallenges.dat:

scg score [game] add

Remove the last entry:

scg score [game] remove

List all scores:

scg score [game] list

The following settings can be saved in a config file :

• Username - BGG user name used during publish.
• Password - BGG password used during publish (it's stored encrypted and should be safe as long as you don't give the settings file to anyone).
• DataFolder - By default this will point to %LOCALAPPDATA% but can be changed to any other folder. I'm using my OneDrive root for example.

Set one of the settings

scg config set [setting] [value] e.g. scg config set Password Password123

Get one of the settings

scg config get [setting]

Simply copy all folders from %LOCALAPPDATA%\MadCowDevelopment\grcg\Games to %LOCALAPPDATA%\MadCowDevelopment\scg\Games

Thanks to everyone hosting solo challenges.

Thanks to the 1 Player Guild for being a great place for solo players to hang out.