Skip to content
PN Scripts

Game templates

Millcroft Game Template

by PN Scripts

The complete source of Millcroft, a Nine Men's Morris game with four alpha-beta opponents and two-player play.

  • JavaScript
  • Canvas 2D
  • Web Audio
  • Playwright
  • Coming soon

Coming soon

Not published on its store yet, so there is no buy or download link. PN Scripts does not take payment for it here.

Game templates
A mill board on an oak plank with the first light and dark stones placed

What it solves

The gap

A mill can take one of several stones, which makes the move list awkward for both the player and the search.

What it is

Each move carries its capture, so the search sees every choice, and the player picks the stone after the mill is shown.

How you use it

Unzip, serve the folder and open index.html, then edit game.js; npm test plays it again in headless Chrome.

Source code of a real, playable game to reskin and learn from, with a smoke test whose bot plays it.

Who it is for

Use it when

  • Publishing a mill game, or any small abstract board game that needs a search-based opponent.
  • Learning how a complete Nine Men's Morris board game is built in plain JavaScript and Canvas 2D.
  • Building a branded mini-game for a client.

Built for

  • Web and indie game developers who know some JavaScript.
  • Developers who want a finished, tested game to build on instead of a blank canvas.

What you get

Captures inside moves

Move generation tries each placement or step, and when it closes a mill it emits one move per stone that may be taken, so alpha-beta compares captures directly.

A ladder by depth and time

The four millers search to depth 1, 2, 4 and 6 with a time limit per move; the first two add a little noise to their choice, the last two play their best move.

No build step

Plain JavaScript and Canvas 2D; open index.html through any static server and edit game.js.

A smoke test

A headless Chrome test loads the game, checks the console, presses keys and taps, and lets the built-in bot play a run to its result screen.

Specs

Availability
Coming soon
Vendor
PN Scripts
Type
Template
Platforms
JavaScript
Pricing
One-time purchase Price to be announced.
License
PN Scripts Template Licence 1.0
Deployment
Download (ZIP of source code)
Maturity
v1.0.0

Compatibility

Platform or runtime Supported versions Tested up to
Node.js 22.12 or newer Not stated

Stack

  • JavaScript
  • Canvas 2D
  • Web Audio
  • Playwright

The Millcroft template is coming soon

The template is finished and tested. It is not on sale yet; this page will say where to get it when it is.

Coming soon

Not published on its store yet, so there is no buy or download link. PN Scripts does not take payment for it here.

Questions

Make and sell any number of your own games from it, and build games for clients. You may not resell or share the source code itself (PN Scripts Template Licence 1.0).

Any static web server to run the game, and some JavaScript. Node.js 22.12 or newer and Google Chrome run the smoke test.

No ad or portal SDK. The game text is in English and Bulgarian, chosen from the browser language. It is tested in desktop Chrome and a phone-sized Chrome viewport with touch, not yet on iOS Safari, Firefox or a real phone.

The code was written with AI assistance and checked by PN Scripts with automated tests. All visuals and sounds are generated by code; there are no AI-generated image or audio files.

It is not on sale yet. When it is, this page will link to the store; PN Scripts does not take payment on this site.