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Re: Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game

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Post by trebeljahr »

rytill wrote: post #2

Hey! I played against a bot and it was pretty fun. Small suggestion: too many queues can make it very difficult to build up a network of players at first. I'd suggest, for now, lowering the amount of available time control queues so that two players who happen to be on at the same time are more likely to actually find a game.

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?

Re: Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game

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Post by trebeljahr »

Rendello wrote: post #8

Cool! I've tried (and I guess failed) to build two of my favourite combinatorial games: the ancient "Konane" and the modern "Shōbu". At least the latter's project taught me property-based testing in Erlang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dnane https://boardgamegeek.com/video/482389/shobu/how-to-play-sho...

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

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Post by trebeljahr »

trebeljahr wrote: post #14
WillMorr wrote: post #6

Clever! I really appreciate how well done the tutorial is, it's just about the easiest game intro I've ever experienced.

Thanks :)

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

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Post by tajd »

I loved this.

A shameless plug for myself and my own investigations into the world of old strategy games - https://tom-dickson.com/blog/trias-game-investigation/ - was where I did an investigation into the game called Trias/ternii lapilli which is like an old version of tic tac toe.

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