Online-go.com: Ability to download the game record in an animated gif/png

Created on 22 Mar 2018 · 6Comments · Source: online-go/online-go.com

Summary

It would be fun and nice to be able to download the game record in an animated png/gif.

Environment

any

Steps To Reproduce:

n/a

Additional Information:

Ask if needed.

Arnaud

enhancement needs api support priority

Source

arnaudgo

👍5

All 6 comments

Yeah, chess.com has this feature and it's really exploded the amount of social media sharing that happens there. I think this would result in a lot of eyeballs for OGS. Good idea, @arnaudgo.

apetresc on 22 Mar 2018

👍1

That is a cool idea, that might not even be too hard to do given our current image stuff. I'll look into it

anoek on 26 Mar 2018

👍1

Ilya Kirilov’s awesome Web Go Board (SGF viewer & editor browser plugin) can export moves as animated GIF, maybe that’s helpful?
https://github.com/IlyaKirillov/GoProject

Spoekenkieker on 26 Mar 2018

❤1

@anoek I'm looking into taking this feature on. Would you be able to point me to the current image stuff you mentioned?

dragon96 on 6 Oct 2019

It's on the backend unfortunately :(

anoek on 7 Oct 2019

I think this is a neat idea and with some clarification could be made into a fun challenge that someone could chunk off and complete!

In the spirit of clarifying, I have a few questions:

Main Purpose

Would the main goal be social media sharing?
If so, is there a current known best channel? Like should it be optimized for tweeting, or maybe export straight to youtube? Or maybe the community is using slack or a message board most?
Are there any examples where people use animated games at a fixed speed already?
Could the chess.com model be copied directly for OGS or is there something that would need to change to support go or the OGS user model?

Brainstorming ideas

I'm picturing adding annotations to make a GIF easier to comprehend as it flits by at a quick pace. Would it be cool to overlay the scoring estimator territory shading so it would be more obvious to beginners what was happening?
Highlight reels - since some games are so long, maybe we'd want to find highlights like big captures or big strategic swings and just render the +/- 10 moves around them?