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Main developer of Untrusted here! I'm thrilled that people are still excited about this little game Greg and I made, 10 years later :-) If you're interested in the development proc…

Thank you so much for the feedback! Unfortunately I screwed up the Discord link in the post – it's http://discord.wordbots.io/ , not https:// – but it was too late to modify the HN…

Very cool! This might be a good time to mention a JavaScript emulation I made of the EMS Synthi A, which was also present at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (well, the closely-related…

I believe this is fixed now, with this parser commit: https://github.com/wordbots/wordbots-parser/commit/f713e5a68...

Hah, this is the keyword substituter incorrectly substituting "event" -> "action" (Action cards were called Event cards in an earlier version of the game). I'll fix that, but in an…

Yeah, the poor parsing around "moved this turn" is a known issue that I'm going to look into fixing this week. (Someone actually mentioned it yesterday on our discord – they were a…

Re: balance – see a comment I made below on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35879796 Re: frustration of writing cards – yeah, I definitely feel you on that. The grammar …

You can definitely make an Action card with the text "You win the game" :-) Wordbots doesn't have a built-in mechanism to enforce cards being at a "fair" power level. We initially …

Regarding M:TG vocabulary, Wordbots's syntax is a little bit different but a lot of the same effects are possible. For example, M:TG's Flametongue Kavu's "When Flametongue Kavu ent…

Oops, lack of licenses was my bad - good catch! Just added LICENSEs to clarify that both the game ( https://github.com/wordbots/wordbots-core ) and the parser ( https://github.com/…

Wordbots is a long-running side project I've been working on on-and-off for the past ~7 years that I finally feel comfortable enough with to share with the HN community. It's an on…

Hi! Wordbots is a long-running side project I've been working on on-and-off for the past ~7 years that I finally feel comfortable enough with to share with the HN community. It's a…

Maybe not quite what you're looking for, but I've had a lot of fun playing with https://lumen-app.com/

I've been working for the past few years on an online card game (think Hearthstone or Magic: the Gathering but with a tactical board component as well) where players can design the…

I saw it posted on the now-defunct https://www.reddit.com/r/untrusted/ :-)

Hey, (one of the) developers here. It's really exciting to see that there's still interest in this little game Greg and I made all those years ago! I wrote up a postmortem on Untru…