Wordbots
Games
online card game
SHOW HN2023
114points
26comments
#561of 3,109 in 2023
Top 19%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
6 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 3 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.
Execution: 1 for, 3 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clever parser approach and fun user-created cards
From 4 comments
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…
alnis on HNThat's clever and elegant, well done. I'm really interested, especially since it turns out to be more than just a ChatGPT front-end.
digging on HNIncredibly cool! It's not normally my type of game but I am going to try this out for sure.
whynotkeithberg on HNI love the idea, and I'm going to try it out!
htaler on HN
Well balanced in single-player with built-in cards
From 1 comment
I like the game itself - it feels well balanced when you are playing single-player mode with built-in cards only. But creating your own cards is an INCREDIBLY frustrating…
zomglings on HN
Objections
Card-writing parser is very restrictive and frustrating
From 2 comments
I like the game itself - it feels well balanced when you are playing single-player mode with built-in cards only. But creating your own cards is an INCREDIBLY frustrating…
zomglings on HNOn the point of card creation, I also found it to be frustrating. Not as much as you did, but for example I couldn't get a card to say "Destroy this robot unless it moved this…
digging on HN
Balance of user-created cards is unsolved
From 2 comments
I like the game itself - it feels well balanced when you are playing single-player mode with built-in cards only. But creating your own cards is an INCREDIBLY frustrating…
zomglings on HNI don't like competing so my first thought was to make a card which says, "You win the game." Is that possible, ostensibly with great cost, or is there some restriction on the…
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on HN
Slow initial load time and missing license files
From 1 comment
That looks neat, thanks for sharing. Speaking of sharing, it seems your repos are missing a license file (and the source files themselves don't have a licensing block that would…
mdaniel on HN
Requests
Integrate an LLM to turn freeform text into card rules
From 3 comments
I like the game itself - it feels well balanced when you are playing single-player mode with built-in cards only. But creating your own cards is an INCREDIBLY frustrating…
zomglings on HNMaybe integrate with an LLM (such as GPT4) to accept card descriptions? Use the LLM to turn English into the subset understood by sumbot and it slowly teaches the player the…
williamcotton on HNThis is really cool, and actually I think LLMs would be a great fit: they can generate your constrained language from more freeform language input by the user. Might make it…
habitue on HN
Restrict rare or uncommon cards in set decks
From 1 comment
Hi, My son has taken a shine to this after I sent him the link (he's up to 100 cards now...). Online, drafting, and the most important bit - user created content (he'd have been…
Tourniquet on HN
Hash game state to detect desyncs
From 1 comment
Hi, My son has taken a shine to this after I sent him the link (he's up to 100 cards now...). Online, drafting, and the most important bit - user created content (he'd have been…
Tourniquet on HN
Questions
How are custom cards balanced?
From 2 comments
I don't like competing so my first thought was to make a card which says, "You win the game." Is that possible, ostensibly with great cost, or is there some restriction on the…
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on HNI like the game itself - it feels well balanced when you are playing single-player mode with built-in cards only. But creating your own cards is an INCREDIBLY frustrating…
zomglings on HN
Can MTG cards be ported over?
From 1 comment
That looks neat, thanks for sharing. Speaking of sharing, it seems your repos are missing a license file (and the source files themselves don't have a licensing block that would…
mdaniel on HN
Alternatives named
Magic: The Gathering
From 2 comments
That looks neat, thanks for sharing. Speaking of sharing, it seems your repos are missing a license file (and the source files themselves don't have a licensing block that would…
mdaniel on HNRegarding 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…
alnis on HN
Hearthstone
From 1 comment
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…
alnis on HN
Faeria
From 1 comment
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…
alnis on HN