Show HN: GeoChess – open-source geography strategy game (geochess.org)

4 points by spider-hand 1mo ago ↗ HN

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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gagandeeprangi1 1mo ago ↗

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

gus_massa 1mo ago ↗

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

chrisra 1mo 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.

tmgldn 1mo 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!

mthoms 1mo ago ↗

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

ben-gy 1mo 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).