Re:Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game
by liambigelow on Sunday April 07, 2024 @11:47PM
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Thanks for the kind words!
Many good notes, we'll look into a lot of that. And yes currently it's deliberate, but I think we can squeeze some AI swaps in!
Maybe a mode where you can see a preview of how a move will play out before you commit the move would help.
I do agree with some of the other comments that the letter probabilities seem a little unbalanced, but that could just be the tendency to remember runs of bad luck in the letter draw.
In terms of dictionary feedback: I'd love to see at a glance on the board which words are 'real words' and which are not. Some sort of visual highlighting of the letters that are in a word would be great.
Having the dictionary always available would be great, rather than having to click twice to get into it, then click again to focus the lookup field.
The AI never seems to use swaps. Is that deliberate?