BYUNG IK YEUN (윤병익)

the Revised Landlord's Game

[The backgrounds]
This project began as my research to port <Two Worlds: Sharing vs Monopoly> ㅡ a game derived from <The Landlord's Game> (Elizabeth Magie, 1904) ㅡ to the web using React and Next.js for its frontend, for Korea University Capstone Design Contest last year. I got lots of support from Jubilee & Land Justice Association, the author of the game I ported during the research. I felt a little bit bad that the React-based frontend and SocketIO based communication between the frontend and the backend were quite prone to glitches in some race conditions, some of which already happened in the contest. Furthermore, the project itself had some limits that obstruct it to be further investigated: It was too tightly coupled to the React and Node.js ecosystem, it was not easy either to maintain, nor to modify, and it could be played only online. Then, I recognized the need to totally reimplement the whole work from scratch.

[Abstract]
The purposes of this project are to inspire further researches on Monopoloid games and to provide an easy-to-use toolkit to learn, teach, and investigate Economics. This project will totally reimplement my prior work in two parts: A core library, and an app using the library. The core library will be written Typescript and will be used to define the rules of the game app implemented on this. The game app will be implemented in Typescript using Svelte and Tauri.(This can be changed.) The whole project will get completely open-sourced with a custom license.

[During the BoF session]
Anyone who is interested in Economics or games (or both of them) is always welcome. During the session, I will explain the game which will be built during this project, and play it with some of the participants of the BoF session.

[Additional information]
The game board, used in my prior project, which is slightly modified from the original work, the shape of which is changed from square to hexagonal, which has integrated the “government” and “market” in the game into itself, and so on.