A two-player implementation of the Royal Game of Ur game, the oldest playable board game.
The Royal Game of Ur, also known as the Game of Twenty Squares, is an ancient board game, found in the Royal Tombs of Ur in Iraq by Sir Leonard Woolley in the 1920s. The two found boards date from the First Dynasty of Ur, before 2600 BC, thus making the Royal Game of Ur one of the oldest examples of board gaming equipment found. The Ur-style Twenty Squares gameboard was also known in Egypt as Asseb, and has been found in Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb, among other places. Discovery of a tablet partially describing the gameplay has allowed the game to be played again after over 2000 years.
The game currently requires the free asset TextMesh Pro, available on the Unity Asset Store. This asset is however not included with this repositroy as I'm unsure of its license.
Getting TextMeshPro:
- Please do not open the project before doing these steps. If you do, re-download or discard all changes.
- Create an temporary empty Unity Project
- Import the "TextMesh Pro" asset from the asset store (Window/Asset Store -> Search "TextMesh Pro" -> Open asset by Unity Technologies -> Import -> Import All)
- This will create a folder in your assets called "TextMesh Pro"
- Close the temporary project
Including TextMesh Pro in code
- Download or clone this repository
- Copy the "TextMesh Pro" folder from the tepmporary project and paste it into the cloned repository, directly into the Assets folder.
- Open the project in Unity and everything shoudld work.
Please report bugs or submit feature requests by opening an issue.
All code and art is licensed under the MIT license. Meaning you can use it for any purpose you wish. Credit is welcome, but not required.
- LiamLime logo
- "screen rotation" image, part of the Material Design project, licensed under Apache License 2.0.