Introduction to Isopath

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34 points·jstanley··8 comments

Nice game. A killer feature (as with any board game) would be asynchronous play, meaning you could start a bunch of games with different people and finish them at a later date, and be notified when it's your turn. It's being implemented in very few games these days.

I've managed to get the random AI into a state where it only had one possible move, and this ended up freezing my browser.

Sorry about that, I'd not come across such a situation while testing it.

It poses a gameplay question as well: if you put your opponent in a position where there are no legal moves, have you won or is the game drawn? I believe in chess for example the game would be considered drawn rather than won.

The random AI probably should give up if it's unable to find a move after some time. Maybe if you don't see a move you can make, you can offer to draw, and your opponent gets to try and make a move for you. If the opponent can't find a move for you either, they have to concede and draw.

looks cool, but is a xxx domain the best place to host it?

+1 to the above, as my work corporate firewall blanket blocks .xxx domains, and as an avid chess player and go fan I'd quite like to give this game a go. Obviously it can wait til I get home but it might suck for people who click through and get their names flagged by IT as having accessed a XXX domain.

In a pinch you can download the code from https://github.com/jes/isopath and load up public/index.html -- websockets won't work but everything else will.

I'm going to give it a go when I get home - my concern was more for anyone who absentmindedly clicks through to a .xxx at work and gets flagged.

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