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Super cool to see this on HN. Saw Tomas demo an early version of it last year. Very neat work and the team behind it is brilliant.

That's a pretty interesting perspective given that all pieces in EC follow standard chess movements and capturing mechanisms. It's certainly a variant, which makes it more interest…

Makes sense

Yeah I tried experimenting with that a bit at the beginning. For some reason it kept looking too '3D-ish' compared to the rest of the flat material design. Do you have any visual e…

That's a great idea too. Thanks guys, please keep the suggestions coming if you have other thoughts.

Thanks so much for reading this beast of a tech article haha! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm surprised people are actually reading the whole thing lol. Thank you for the kind words.

All fully resolved now :) please see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39840172

FYI if anyone temporarily experienced a missing puzzle yesterday, I'm sorry this is the first experience that you were welcomed in. The HN hug is real. Had to run around switching …

Thanks for the helpful input on this. Concerning the zen mode constraint, do you feel like the countdown timer is what's feeling off-putting to you, or is it the combo reset on shu…

wait o.O are these real chess facts or some meme hypotheticals? if the former then that's a huge TIL.

Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it and really grateful for the support

Yep! It's accessible from any device/browser on echochess.com you can actually install it locally on any device straight from there too (e.g. on iOS if you're in Safari you can tap…

Thanks edanm, really glad you're enjoying echo chess! Very good point, will iterate on that. Would it help if the obstacle squares had some pattern/texture in them or something lik…

Hey gverrilla, looks like you tried the game when the traffic was at the peak and the server crashed temporarily. If you'd like to give it another try, we're fully live again onlin…

Thanks, that's helpful

First time I see that! Not the most intuitive interactions imho but fun game to try.

Good point otteromkram. Thanks for the input

Great points, thanks for sharing the feedback. Noted for #1. For #2, did you mean separately from the results screen you get at the end of a daily puzzle? That screen shows a move …

I feel you haha. Don't worry though, in Echo Chess a king is pretty much equivalent to a queen given that it's always your turn. Obviously move counts are different and the struggl…

Thank you dang for your support from the earliest days of this game. Very thankful for welcoming me into the HN community with echo chess.

TIL this song exists and my life has already improved. Thank you for this hidden gem.

Site back up online! Thank you everyone for bearing with me on this and sorry for keeping you waiting with the wrong daily puzzle config. You guys literally broke the game. GG HN. …

Hey guys, super fair feedback, sorry for missing the mark on this as I was trying to keep the login flow convenient for mobile users through Twilio Verify code. See more here: http…

Hey TheRealPomax, just reading this. Super fair point about the phone number. It was only meant to be there for keeping the login convenient for mobile users through Twilio verify.…

That's very nice to hear, thank you vlw. I think there is a good argument on both sides. This is one of those areas where I will definitely be making improvements down the line wit…