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There's now a fairly strong bot to play against (contributed by a community member) and also correspondence games. The combination of these things helps a bit in finding people to play against.",{"problem":45,"audience":46,"pricing":45,"motivation":45,"time_to_build":45,"stack":59,"openness":67,"stage":68,"team_size":69},null,{"value":47,"source":48,"evidence":49},"Go players and people who like Go variants","inferred",[50,53,56],{"id":51,"by":10,"text":52},"49470786","Thanks for playing! Yeah, the mobile experience is pretty wonky still. I mostly use it to respond to correspondence games when I'm afk but otherwise I think most people prefer to…",{"id":54,"by":10,"text":55},"49481715","Thanks! Yes, I'm still unsure about how much you can stray from playing tightly connected. I mentioned this in another thread, but I think part of the problem is that the small…",{"id":57,"by":10,"text":58},"49482388","I mentioned this in another comment but I think it's just kind of hard to learn without the context of knowing how to play Go... I don't think it's a matter of being dumb. For…",[60],{"value":61,"source":62,"evidence":63},"neural net bot running in-browser","maker",[64],{"id":65,"by":10,"text":66},"49471870","Thanks! I think that the high CPU utilization is probably the bot itself. It's a full-blown neural net running in-browser, so it's definitely a resource hog. If you ever play…","open_source","launched","unknown",{"praise":71,"objections":93,"requests":124,"questions":138,"alternatives":149},[72,89],{"value":73,"source":74,"evidence":75},"Fun, novel twist on Go","commenter",[76,80,84,88],{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},"49473690","nexthash","Played a few games against the bot on the small board, enjoyed it. Game mechanics are trippy but easy to get used to, and are very natural for for a computerized Go variant.…",{"id":81,"by":82,"text":83},"49471619","jazzprogramming","Love it, such a novel idea! Honestly, as a long time Voronoi enthusiast, the idea of turning a regular grid into a Voronoi diagram is kind of obvious and I admit that this is…",{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"49470423","pmontra","Very well done. I had to enable desktop mode on a phone because the help dialog hides the board and the Next button is some meter below the bottom edge of the screen. That's the…",{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},{"value":90,"source":74,"evidence":91},"Well executed",[92],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},[94,105,112,120],{"value":95,"source":74,"evidence":96},"Hard to learn and tutorial is dense",[97,101],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"49470345","xerox13ster","Gonna be honest, this got a click from me as a golang developer having just come from the terminal multiplexer thread and I fully expected this to be about developing voronoi…",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"49475835","ryankrage77","Very interesting, but I feel like I'm too dumb to 'get it'. It's not intuitive at all what makes a move good or bad. I lost 5 games against the easy bot, by a lot. I'm OK at…",{"value":106,"source":74,"evidence":107},"Bot is strong and hard to beat",[108],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"49470855","runarberg","5 kyu in normal go here: I played a couple of games and got crushed by the AI. Groups are much harder to kill in this game, so having a large group of connected stones with zero…",{"value":113,"source":74,"evidence":114},"Mobile layout problems",[115,116],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"49470408","emaro","Looks really cool. Saved for later because I'm on my phone right now. Ignored the warning and it was fine but the site refreshed sometimes which restarted the tutorial. 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I only played a little, but it is clear that this game strongly prefers tight extending connections. In go terms “territory.” I am…",{"value":159,"source":74,"evidence":160},"Magnetic Go",[161],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"49478760","simedw","This was neat, well done! The only alternative version of Go I’ve played before was magnetic Go, where all the rules are the same except that, along the axis lines where you…",{"value":166,"source":74,"evidence":167},"Equilibrium Voronoi puzzle game",[168],{"id":169,"by":170,"text":171},"49475970","gampleman","As an aside I've also made a Voronoi puzzle game: https:\u002F\u002Fcode.gampleman.eu\u002Fequilibrium\u002Fequilibrium.html",{"comments":173,"answered":38,"key":174},8,[175,178,181],{"id":176,"text":177},"49470971","Thanks for playing! I don't have a ranking in traditional Go, but after tens of hours playing this game I'd generally agree with your assessment. 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