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Show HN: Piskvor Prime: a five-in-a-row iOS game with a reactive AI opponent

Posted by vh311 on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @11:43PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://vojtahavlicek.github.io/vojtanyc/posts/piskvor_prime/

Hi HN,I'm a solo developer and recently released Piskvor Prime, a five-in-a-row game for iOS. This started as a side project to experiment with a simple board game AI that I ended up wrapping into a complete game.Your opponent is a glitchy robot that reacts to your moves — taunting, hesitating, and reveals bits of internal lore as you play. It is not unbeatable, but it has a bit of personality...

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Re:DropZap World – my falling block game with lasers, released after y... on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @10:46PM (#44314996)
Plays nice, congratulations on the release!

If this catches on, I think that the game could use an update in graphics at some point. Good job overall though and best of luck :)

Re:You could have invented Fenwick trees on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:29PM (#42819212)
Sure, by what I wrote above I meant more of a "Fenwick's paper" than "Fenwick's work" :)

That said, as far as I remember, I did not know about Ryabko. So while it might have been a misatribution, it's far from a clear one.

Did he publish it btw.? If so, do you have a reference?

Re:You could have invented Fenwick trees on Friday January 24, 2025 @08:35PM (#42818617)
I used them in my paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.07072

They appear quite naturally in the fermion-qubit mappings we looked at and I worked the data structure out at the time and only then found out about Fenwick’s work.

So I guess I also agree with the title :)

Re:Introducing GraphAware Neo4j Framework on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @05:13AM (#8172077)
Thanks a lot, I will definitely give it a go :)