Show HN: GeoChess – open-source geography strategy game

sspider-hand 6 days ago 14 commentsRead Article on geochess.org

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The rules are really simple. Players take turns claiming a country that shares a land border with the current one. You lose if you have no valid moves left.

I'd appreciate any feedback.

Source code: https://github.com/spider-hand/GeoChess

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ben-gy•18 minutes ago

This is interesting - I’ve been messing around with AI generated games - I get about 50% out-of-the box ready to play intuitively now but it took a lot of refinement of the prompt to get there - I’ll tell my ai to have a go at this one and see what it produces (will credit op for the inspiration).

tmgldn•about 2 hours ago

Like it! However Denmark and Sweden apparently aren't "connected"!

Which is fine of course, but would be nice if the rules made that clear!

gagandeeprangi1•6 days ago

This looks really nice. Something new to play with friends on game nights, will try this one out.

spider-hand•6 days ago

Hi thanks for your comment. Hope you enjoy it!

gus_massa•5 days ago

I expected the countries to be a painted when they are selected.

spider-hand•5 days ago

Thanks for your feedback!

If they are visually selected on the map during the game, I thought it would be too easy.

Maybe I can add an option to let users see which countries have already been used on the map.

gus_massa•5 days ago

I don't see any selection neither.

It may be nice to start in the same continent of the player. I know better the countries near here [Argentina]. North America is quite linear, so it may be boring to plat there.

spider-hand•5 days ago

> I don't see any selection neither.

Yes it's intentional. I thought if players can see the selection during the game, it is not challenging.

> It may be nice to start in the same continent of the player.

I think letting a user select a continent is a good idea.

mthoms•about 1 hour ago

I played about 8 rounds and I still don't understand the goal.

kylecazar•2 minutes ago

I did too, trying to see if I could derive it from gameplay.

Here you go:

"Claim a neighboring country each turn.

No legal moves? You lose.

That's it. Enjoy!"

chrisra•about 2 hours ago

Loaded it on a pixel phone, saw a list of countries with no context about what picking one meant, saw a map but didn't understand how to interact with it, and that was about it.