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So, I built this tiny website where one…",{"value":57,"source":58,"evidence":59},"Fans of pen-and-paper strategy games","inferred",[60,61,65],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},"38480846","untech","I guessed the game just by “show HN” title :) We played this game a lot in the Urals during high school, but upon arriving in Moscow for higher education discovered that locals…",{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"38481985","calvinmorrison","What is this game called? I spent many hours during sermons playing this with my siblings, but I am American",{"value":70,"source":51,"evidence":71},"Game was popular in maker's school days in Ukraine and little covered in English",[72],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},[74],{"value":75,"source":58,"evidence":76},"Python",[77],{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},"38480799","Jorge1o1","So the source code of the bot is here: https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002FKharacternyk\u002Fpaper-tactics\u002Fblob\u002Fmaster\u002Fpaper_tactics\u002Fentities\u002Fgame_bot.py It seems like there's an evaluation function…","open_source","launched","solo",{"praise":85,"objections":114,"requests":158,"questions":191,"alternatives":200},[86,106],{"value":87,"source":88,"evidence":89},"Fun and addictive game with good UX and implementation","commenter",[90,94,98,102],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"38481802","CSMastermind","Well this is very addictive, thank you for sharing. If you're looking for feature requests then the ability to view move history (especially after the game is over) and the…",{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"38481425","timmit","Game rules are simple, great job to bring it online.",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"38480910","hombre_fatal","great polish on the UX.",{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"38485404","fodkodrasz","The game is fun, had a very interesting match with some random person from the other side of the world, but it would be great if I could create a private lobby just to play this…",{"value":107,"source":88,"evidence":108},"Rules are simple and clearly explained",[109,110],{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"38481577","steve_wilson","Great job at explaining the rules! Tried it out from my phone, how do I „confirm“ a move? I seem to be unable to actually finish a move.",[115,134,143],{"value":116,"source":88,"evidence":117},"Bot is weak and easy to beat",[118,122,126,130],{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"38481702","frei","Unfortunately the bot is not very good. Just by reading the rules I was able to beat it every time on multiple rulesets. The matchmaking is also difficult to find a partner since…",{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"38481590","im3w1l","I'd say the bot is very weak. My first game I had no real idea what I was doing. Half the game I thought I had to maintain contact with my starting square or lose, until I…",{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"38482180","russellbeattie","Yeah, the bot is good for learning, but after a few games it becomes easy to just go after it directly, kill the Os which connect the walls and win easily.",{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"38499072","purplepatrick","I’ve been playing it for several days now without fully understanding all the rules. I like it but I win every game easily. I just neutralize the opponent’s marks and then lock…",{"value":135,"source":88,"evidence":136},"Matchmaking is hard because settings must match and there is no lobby",[137,138,142],{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"38486780","PoignardAzur","There's a pitfall with the settings: because there are so many settings, and you can only connect with people using the same settings, and there's no lobby or way to know which…",{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},{"value":144,"source":88,"evidence":145},"Rules documentation is unclear, especially capturing",[146,150,154],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"38485086","cookiengineer","I don't understand the capturing mechanic? Playing against the bot always leads to sudden capture of dozens of units at once. How and why does this happen? 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With 7…",{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"38488042","tmountain","Monte Carlo tree search is another “easy” way to build a decent AI for a game. I love it because you simply define the rules of the game in a purely functional way, and it does…",{"value":181,"source":88,"evidence":182},"Local two-player mode on one device",[183],{"id":184,"by":185,"text":186},"38481740","samcheng","It would be nice to have an option to play against someone locally (sharing the same computer)",{"value":188,"source":88,"evidence":189},"Move history and shareable completed games",[190],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},[192,196],{"value":193,"source":88,"evidence":194},"How the capture mechanic works",[195],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},{"value":197,"source":88,"evidence":198},"What the game is called",[199],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},[201,208,215],{"value":202,"source":88,"evidence":203},"Original Virus Wars rules at Pencil and Paper Games",[204],{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},"38485168","johnsondavies","This is a traditional game called \"Voyna Virusov\" or \"Virus War\". 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