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Show HN: Scorecard.gg – minimalist scoring tool for your favorite board games
- dieselgate 3y agoCribbage could make a nice addition
- Buckaroo9 3y agoAs you add additional games, I would include a search bar on the main page.
- thomaspark 3y agoGood thought, I'll add it to todos.
- rmorey 3y agoGlad to see Wingspan featured prominently! I love that game
- tuccinator 3y agoI mean it's no surprise with it being one of the most popular board games right now. I finally got around to purchasing it about a month ago and I really like it as well. Has the perfect balance between simplicity and strategy.
- tuccinator 3y agoLove the minimalist look of the cards. I'll try this out in the coming days.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoIs there any way to add unlisted games? This looks like a simple spreadsheet type thing, unless I'm missing some key detail. I assume each game's scorecard is stored as json somewhere, or is a javascript object with the rows being preset icons/strings. Looks very useful.
- iamevn 3y agoCan I contribute games I'd like to add? Or maybe run a local version customized for the games my group plays?
- thomaspark 3y agoI'm accepting suggestions for games to add, since pretty I'm out of touch with the scene and there's so many amazing new ones to keep up with. As far as contributing, maybe I'll put this up on GitHub...
- harry_ord 3y agoAs a way for individuals to contribute?
- pkulak 3y agoBe nice to just have a "default" that's just names, rounds and scores, which would cover like 1000 card games.
- thomaspark 3y agoJust added it here: https://scorecard.gg/games/generic/ https://scorecard.gg/games/generic/
- pkulak 3y agoThank you!
- goosethe 3y agoI'll 2nd this. you should add some general protocol to add games. and how no catan?
- twostorytower 3y agoI'm not sure Catan makes sense for this. Keeping tabs on the other player's score is part of the game. If a player has a development card face down, you never really know their actual score for sure, and you have to consider the unknown into your strategy.
- colemannugent 3y agoCould you add a general "game" for round-based games? The current Scrabble score-card is close, but it would be nice to have a per-round score and a running total as columns.
- thomaspark 3y agoAbsolutely! I meant to add it back, I originally had one front and center on the landing page. Lots of uses for it.
- cadooo 3y agoMosaic will be useful. Can't believe the retail version didn't come with anything to track score.
- thomaspark 3y agoThanks for the suggestion, I'll add it.
- maweaver 3y agoI tried Scrabble on my phone in portrait mode (which IMO is the use case you should be optimizing for) and am finding it not very usable. Not trying to be overly negative, but here are some things I'm seeing: - Even with 2 players seeing everyone's score requires horizontal scrolling, which is annoying. - In addition, the scrollbars seems to only appear when a cell is selected. And even then it only actually works with 2 finger scrolling. And even then, it is inconsistent. - Having to double tap in to enter a score is annoying. - Not sure what the "play" column is for. If it's intended to be the word played by that player, then it's too small for many words, and it doesn't even make sense for many turns (e.g. player is connecting existing words, or passing). Furthermore, IME most people don't bother keeping track of previous turns words. My $.02 on improving, since I hate non-constructive criticism: Make each player some sort of bottom tab, with their score visible. Clicking the player can show all the details. Drop the "play" column. Auto-prompt for next players score, don't make me find the right cell and double click into it. Provide special operations for editing previous scores or marking turns as passed, challenged, etc.
- thomaspark 3y agoThanks for the feedback, the current iteration is definitely a work in progress and mobile needs much polish. Your bottom tab idea is a good one for mobile. I'm not a regular Scrabble player so feedback from actual players is helpful. I've seen the play column and thought it was a neat-to-have feature, but on mobile it's a different story.
- latexr 3y agoI like the idea and the website looks great and functional. Except on mobile. Yahtzee is nigh unusable on an iPhone Mini. I don’t think anyone in my groups would go for having a laptop on the table near us, we’d sooner grab a new blank paper and scribble on it.
- captn3m0 3y agoI use Pointedly on iOS, but this is neat as well. Not all games work well with a generic scoring app, and I’ll keep this in mind for our next session. Please add 7 Wonder: Duel also.
- thomaspark 3y agoThis project was born out of regular games of Dutch Blitz. For gaming, existing scoring apps had more complexity (and friction) than I was after. I wanted something quick & dirty. I ended up on Google Sheets with some simple formulas. Other groups also started using it. It seemed to be something I could generalize with a bit more work, and here we are. Welcome any and all feedback.
- codefined 3y agoI made a very minimal[0] phone only score board. Scores are increased by scrolling, or holding to set it to a specific value. Pressing the 'settings' tab enables modes for games like 'Whist' that involve betting, as well as configuring the number of players. [0] https://score.feud.today/ https://score.feud.today/
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- pech0rin 3y agoAwesome idea, definitely something I would use because I play yahtzee a lot randomly. But when I play board games I only have my phone so mobile version needs a lot of work. I have to imagine most people are the same so in my opinion you should think about that as default usecase when thinking of UI. Will follow the project. Nice work
- croisillon 3y agodisappointed by the end of the first screenshot starting with "John, Paul, George, Ri..."
- Groxx 3y agoFor random point-tracking, I keep going back to Rounds: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.publicobject.rounds https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.publicobje... It's one of the few to escape the Excel-but-simpler model, and due to that and the input wheel it's much quicker for doing stuff out of order or making adjustments, and that's super common for me.
- hyperhopper 3y agoDoesn't look to be updated for modern android versions
- Groxx 3y agoDoes it just complain, or not install at all? I'd have to have a separate profile + Google account to test that :/
- shanecleveland 3y agoI've made https://leaderboardhq.com https://leaderboardhq.com for general scorekeeping. Main use case was a scoreboard that kept track of rounds and sets.
- stevage 3y agoFeedback: Cell input should be a number type so mobile keyboard defaults to numbers. Entry cells should scroll separately from row headers. Can't remove players. Plus and minus buttons on cell entry would be nice. (I tried the Wingspan one)
- sentrysapper 3y agoI like minimalist utility sites like this. Will try this out on my next game of Parks. FYI looks like icons for first player and season bonus aren't available on the Parks scorecard. https://scorecard.gg/games/parks/ https://scorecard.gg/games/parks/
- ghtaylor 3y agoSuch a cool idea, and well executed. Had you considered adding descriptions or "How to play" on each game's scorecard page? Could be a nice addition
- maddynator 3y agoHi @thomaspark, Played with the app. Created a 3 min video feedback of my experience using it. https://www.loom.com/share/fb0fe0ec8e3b439db92eb4a6c5794931?sid=dcd8bce8-1a5a-4d05-abd9-1e871a1855fa https://www.loom.com/share/fb0fe0ec8e3b439db92eb4a6c5794931?... I hope you find it useful. Really liked the hidden URL feature :) If you don't find it useful, please disregard the video. Thanks and happy building!!
- aardvark179 3y agoI think the fundamental problem with a site like this is that the games that could really do with assistance for scoring need more than this, and the thing I really want (a reminder of how things score) just isn’t there for other games. For example, Caverna and Agricola aren’t hard to score, but being able to point everybody to something that makes it visible how end game scoring works would be really useful. Conversely I would love a CV based scoring app for A Feast For Odin because that is a game where it is easy to miscount tiles, but that’s beyond what a site like this is aiming to do.
- polyamid23 3y agoIn yahtzee you should get the bonus when you have 63 points OR over.
- RunningDroid 3y agoThe mobile UX could be made a little nicer by adding inputmode="numeric" and maybe pattern="\d*" to the fields that take a numeric score
- hyperhopper 3y agoSad that it's only simpler games. Like when I really need an app or paper it's for something like 18xx games. At this level 80% of the games id do in my head and the rest are just as easy with the calculator app
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- acyou 3y agoFeedback: looks great, but would also be great to also add stylus compatibility, sketch/doodle mode, add players mid-game, pressure sensitivity, sleep and wake persistence capability, indefinite data persistence, unlimited viewing angle, unlimited battery life, and be storable in the game box indefinitely with a cheap, disposable stylus.
- kissgyorgy 3y agoI will do this with ChatGPT in the future. No need to type or use a calculator or anything like that anymore.