trebeljahr

was about to say that ^^

yay :)

play it with friends in real life

hehe shameless plugs are the best. You often get to find new stuff that way and something of the fun of a community like HN is to get to know about all the interesting stuff that other people are doing. Unless you overdo the shameless plugging ofc.

Also it's funny I remember playing this game you solved, but back with friends in high school during Latin classes haha but without knowing it's name.

Also the algorithm you construct for the AI is pretty similar to what Tiao is using as far as I can tell :)

You can look at the repo to find out the details.

Essentially sending moves over web socket and the server having authority to accept/reject them to prevent cheating moves. Client updates optimistically and rolls back if server rejects/network times out etc.

no, this is new. Still in the process of making pages everywhere + submitting to Boardgames Geek and so on :) also my friend is contacting publishers so maybe this might exist as a real, non-digital thing soon too! (I mean it sorta does already because you can play this with a Go board)

Bananagrams is fun.

I think Dobble is another example :)

Oh true haha :)

I guess I just added this "turn based" phrase because it's online and for me felt somehow more descriptive of what it is, but you're absolutely right.

And now I also wonder what would a non-turn based board game look like?

I'll have to try one of those you recommended and find out :)

Yay :)

I put a lot of work trying to make it as smooth as possible. But there's still some rough edges I think, have to play test it more with friends, just the amount of different assumptions that people bring to a tutorial and trying to handle all of them without being overwhelming is such a tricky balance to get right haha

Thanks :)

I've never heard of either before but they look like a lot of fun :)

I like the video introduction on the board game geek site, maybe I should film something like this with my friend for Tiao and also put a page up there? :D

That is such a good idea.

I just looked at lichess and copied their time controls queue screen/options. But you're so right! I'm thinking which time control would be best for the beginning... 10 mins maybe?

Haha yeah :D