When I was in school, for some reason I had an enormous amount of free time in class where I’d be sitting there quietly with just a pencil and paper to kill time. I’d invent strategy games to play against myself, or draw out a go board (it was a pain to erase captured stones!). Better than the alternative of seeing how long I could hold my breath. I wish I had known about this game, it’s perfect for pencil and paper!
Show HN: Play a pen-and-paper game that is almost unknown in the US and Europe
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#42Related: https://harmmade.com/vectorracer/
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
The bot is not very good, unfortunately. It's mainly useful to help understand the rules, as in your case. If you're interested in playing with an experienced player, ping me at nazar@vinnich.uk :) > Which is the standard lenght of the turns? The usual setup is a 10×10 grid with 3 moves per turn. More moves means more interesting manoevres are possible. I like 7 moves on 12×12.
So the source code of the bot is here: https://github.com/Kharacternyk/paper-tactics/blob/master/pa... It seems like there's an evaluation function but there's no state search / recursive minimax tree for the bot. I think if we added a 10-ply lookahead minimax algo for the bot here it would be pretty good. [1] I will probably do it myself if I end up having a bit of free time this weekend. [1] https://en.wikipedia.or…
Good old Alpha Beta pruning. I have a real mental block whenever I try to code
that algorithm!
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#44Source for calling it "almost unknown"?
I'm from Europe and this game is totally known. I had a university project to program one in C. The bot especially was fun to implement.
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#45Related: https://harmmade.com/vectorracer/
That one was quite fun, thanks
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#46I don't get it. What is the purpose of a "wall" unit? If you just want to fill up a grid, why do you need more than one kind of unit? Is the wall just decorative? It doesn't seem to affect anything at all.
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#47Feature Request: A lot of people disconnect after some time, there should be some kind of countdown for auto-victory.
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#49I don't get it. What is the purpose of a "wall" unit? If you just want to fill up a grid, why do you need more than one kind of unit? Is the wall just decorative? It doesn't seem to affect anything at all.
I suggest playing, you'll quickly see it's about strategy of taking and locking squares. Walls can't be taken back and cut off chains to other walls.
Never played before buts it's interesting.
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