The call picker stacked the four 120px cards vertically, making the
dialog about 780px tall, and the overlay centered its content with no
scroll fallback. On typical laptop window heights that pushed the title
and options off-screen (the heading sat at y=-110 on a 560px viewport),
leaving what looked like a free-floating selection with no explanation
and no way to scroll.
Make dialogs scroll instead of clipping: the overlay scrolls and the
panel centers with `margin: auto`, which keeps every modal (the capture
picker and the scoring summaries too) centered when it fits and
reachable when it does not. Lay the call options out in a compact grid
(four across, 2x2 on phones) with 84px cards, name the won rank in the
title ("You won with the Re - name the card") and label each option
"Partner" or "Plays alone" so the choice reads at a glance.
tavolo
A platform for multiplayer card games. Three games are included: scopone scientifico — the four-player, fixed-partnership Italian card game — briscola, in its classic two-player and four-player partnership (briscola a quattro) variants, and briscola chiamata — the five-player variant with a calling auction and a secret partner:
server/— backend: Python + kaya framework, OIDC login, live games in Redis, match statistics in Postgres. A monorepo of four distributions sharing thetavolonamespace: the game-independenttavolo-platform, thetavolo-scoponeandtavolo-briscolagames, and thetavolo-appcomposition root wiring them together. See server/README.md.web/— frontend: Rust + Sycamore compiled to WebAssembly, built with Trunk and styled with Bootstrap 5.3 (MIT, vendored underweb/vendor/so builds work offline) plus the custom felt theme inweb/theme.css. Card images are the CC0 woodcut napoletane deck traced from a 1902 Naples print (SONDLecT/woodcut-napoletane).
Run the whole stack
docker compose up --build
Postgres, Redis, a mock OIDC provider (test users alice, bob, carol,
dave), the database migrator and the app all come up together. The app —
frontend and API — listens on http://127.0.0.1:8080.
Because both the browser and the app talk to the OIDC issuer at
http://mockoauth:8180/tavolo, add a host entry once:
echo "127.0.0.1 mockoauth" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
Between hands
When a hand ends but the match is not decided, the game pauses on a
scoring summary screen: scopone players see how each category was won
(carte, denara, settebello, primiera, scope — plus napola and asso
pigliatutto when enabled), briscola players see the deal's points and any
patta; both see the running totals and must click "Understood" before
the next hand is dealt. If someone is away the next hand is dealt
automatically after HAND_ACK_TIMEOUT_SECONDS (default 30s). The
match-ending hand is explained on the final screen. Briscola chiamata
plays a single deal per match, so it goes straight from the last trick to
the final scoring screen; a 60–60 patta is replayed immediately.
On your turn
Every turn shows a countdown (TURN_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, default 30s). If a
player does not move — disconnected or fallen asleep — the server plays a
random legal card for them (choosing among the legal captures when the
rules require a capture), so one absent player cannot stall the table.
Briscola chiamata arms the same countdown for its auction bids and for
the auction winner's called-card choice (auto-bid or auto-pass, then a
random suit of the won rank).
Watching
Anyone who has the game URL (/game/<id>) can watch, logged in or not:
spectators see the table, the score and every player's captured cards
(and scope for scopone), but never a hand and never the join code. In
briscola chiamata they also see no role labels and no side totals until
the called card is played, so the secret partner stays secret. The
"Copy watch link" button in the waiting room and in the game HUD copies
the URL to share. A spectator who opens the URL before the match starts
sees a "game not started yet" waiting room.
Development
Backend (from server/):
cd server
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
.venv/bin/pip install -e ./packages/tavolo-platform -e ./packages/tavolo-scopone -e ./packages/tavolo-briscola -e './packages/tavolo-app[dev]'
.venv/bin/python -m unittest discover -s tests -t .
.venv/bin/python -m unittest discover -s packages/tavolo-platform/tests
.venv/bin/python -m unittest discover -s packages/tavolo-scopone/tests
.venv/bin/python -m unittest discover -s packages/tavolo-briscola/tests
Frontend (from web/), with the backend running on :8080:
cd web
trunk serve # SPA on http://localhost:8000, /api /auth /ws proxied
Trunk proxies /api, /auth and /ws to 127.0.0.1:8080 (see
web/Trunk.toml). For the login redirect to land back on the dev server,
run the backend with:
OIDC_0_PROVIDER=default \
OIDC_0_ISSUER=http://localhost:8180/tavolo \
OIDC_0_CLIENT_ID=tavolo \
OIDC_0_REDIRECT_URI=http://localhost:8080/auth/default/callback \
OIDC_0_POST_LOGIN_REDIRECT=http://localhost:8000/ \
OIDC_0_POST_LOGOUT_REDIRECT=http://localhost:8000/ \
.venv/bin/granian --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080 tavolo.app:app
Card images are committed under web/assets/cards/; web/fetch-cards.sh
re-downloads them if needed.