Board Challenge

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Create a playable browser board game titled “SIEMENS ENERGY – BOARD CHALLENGE” with a German-language interface and the visible title “Board Challenge” in the setup dialog. The game is a local, turn-based Ludo-style strategy game for 2–4 teams, themed around Siemens Energy, wind, grid, and leadership.

Visual style: use a dark futuristic energy-dashboard aesthetic. The full page has a deep navy/black radial-gradient background with subtle animated conic light rays, cyan/teal highlights, translucent petrol-blue panels, thin glowing borders, soft shadows, and crisp Arial-like sans-serif typography. The top bar has a circular cyan “SE” mark at left, the title “SIEMENS ENERGY – BOARD CHALLENGE,” and the subtitle “LOCAL STRATEGY • WIND • GRID • LEADERSHIP.” At right place buttons for “Regeln,” “Ton: an/aus,” and “Neues Spiel.”

At startup, show a large centered configuration modal over a dimmed backdrop. Its heading is “Board Challenge konfigurieren.” Include a player-count dropdown with “2 Teams,” “3 Teams,” and “4 Teams” (4 selected by default), a dropdown labeled “Regel: Dreimal würfeln bei vollem Haus” with “Aktiv” or “Aus,” and one name/type section per selected team. The four default team names are “Team Blau,” “Team Türkis,” “Team Orange,” and “Team Pink,” with roles CEO, CFO, Technikvorstand, and Personalvorstand respectively. Each section has a team-name text input and a human/computer-opponent dropdown, defaulting to “Menschlich.” Include a sound dropdown (“An”/“Aus”) and a prominent “Neues Spiel starten” button. The visible configuration form should be vertically scrollable on smaller screens.

After starting, lay out the main game as a large circular board on the left and a right-hand sidebar. The board is a glowing dark teal circular arena with a radial center “ENERGY HUB / GRID READY,” four translucent rotor/blade shapes crossing behind it, and 40 numbered circular track cells arranged around the perimeter. The track cells are pale cyan/white circles numbered 1–40. Each team has a visually distinct base/home card positioned around the board edges: blue upper-left, teal upper-right, orange lower-left, and pink lower-right. Each card shows the team name, its Siemens-related street name, role and human/computer status, plus four numbered home slots. Use these house labels: Wolfgang-Hirschmann-Straße, Freyeslebenstraße, Frauenauracher Straße, and Werner-von-Siemens-Straße.

Represent each team with four small glossy pawn pieces colored blue (#347dff), teal (#12d5b6), orange (#ff9b46), or pink (#e66cff). Pawns have a rounded body, a small circular head, white outline, and colored glow. Home pawns sit near their team’s base. Active/selectable pawns glow and pulse; the selected pawn enlarges with a white outline. Pawns move visibly step-by-step around the circular 40-cell track. Each team’s starting point is offset by 10 track cells: team 1 starts at track index 0, team 2 at 10, team 3 at 20, team 4 at 30. After completing the main loop, pawns enter a short inward-colored finishing lane toward the central hub and must reach the final target with exact movement.

The sidebar contains: an active-player card with a glowing team-color dot, “AKTIVER SPIELER,” and the current team name; a status message panel; a “WÜRFELMODUL” panel with a large animated die showing a number 1–6, a “Letzter Wurf” value, and a “Würfeln” button; a “TEAMS & FORTSCHRITT” list showing every team, role, human/AI label, current-turn highlight, and progress as figures in target out of 4; and a compact scrollable “SPIELHISTORIE” list of recent events. Include a footer tip explaining that after rolling, possible pawns light up and can be clicked, while computer opponents play automatically.

Core rules and interaction: every team starts with four pawns in its home. A pawn may leave home only on a roll of exactly 6, entering that team’s start cell. After rolling, highlight every legal pawn with an animated glow; the human player clicks one highlighted pawn to move it. A pawn already on the track advances by the die value one cell at a time. Pawns may not share a regular track cell with another pawn from the same team. If a pawn lands on a regular track cell occupied by an opponent, send the opponent pawn back home and add a history/status message. A six grants the same player another roll. If no legal move exists, show an explanatory status and pass the turn (a six still follows the extra-roll rule as implemented). The “Dreimal würfeln bei vollem Haus” setting is available in setup and should be represented in the configuration UI. The first team to get all four pawns into its four finishing target fields wins.

Computer opponents automatically roll on their turns, then choose a legal pawn, preferring the pawn with the greatest progress and preferring a home pawn when a six is rolled. Human players use the sidebar roll button and click a glowing pawn on the board. Disable the roll button while rolling, while choosing/moving a pawn, for AI turns, and after game end. Animate the die with rotation/scale, play short optional synthesized sounds for rolls, invalid actions, captures, and victory, and allow sound to be toggled from the top bar.

Maintain a recent history of approximately eight events such as game start, rolls, no valid move, movement, captures, bonus rolls, and turn changes. When a team wins, show a full-screen dark teal victory overlay with cyan glow, lightning icon, “BOARD CHALLENGE CHAMPION,” “<team> gewinnt!”, a message that the role brought all four figures to the target, colorful falling confetti based on team colors, and a “Neues Spiel” button. Also provide a “Regeln” modal containing the rules in German and a close button. Make the layout responsive: on narrow screens stack the sidebar below the board, allow the board to remain a fixed square with horizontal scrolling, and allow the setup/rules modal to scroll vertically.