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Show HN: Ember – a strategy game where everyone moves at once

https://playember.gg/

Hey y’all!Back in 2019, inspired by my love of board games and what’s possible with digital games, I created a little strategy game built around simultaneous moves and shifting pressure across a grid. I thought there was a really interesting game hiding in there, but eventually stopped digging as life happened. Work, pandemic, kid, the usual...Then all of this AI nonsense pulled me back in and...

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Re:Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @07:18PM (#27522876)
Really neat to see how ideas propagate.

My code is also up on Github. Feel free to directly take anything you like should you keep working on it! And if you ever want to brainstorm, you know how to find me.

Re:Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @05:49PM (#27521951)
Wild, I made something extremely similar a couple years ago (also inspired by Go) called Quagen (https://quagen.io). I like your use of hex and the UX better than mine. Nice job!