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Show HN: Play Riichi Mahjong Online
I'm presenting a website where you can play Riichi Mahjong (4p strategy and luck boardgame):
- Play Mahjong as a guest or registered user
- Invite other players or play against bots
- View your game history and publicly share it with others
- Use the hand calculator for scoring your offline games at https://online-riichi.com/score https://online-riichi.com/score
The game client has been inspired by "online-go" which I really enjoyed playing on
- it's simplistic but feels tactile and remains true to the "feel" of the game. I would like to achieve the same thing.
As part of preparing to share on HN and reading the posting guide, I've added a "Play as guest" button so you don't need an account to play.
Finally, my own selfish goal is to gather a small player base which I can develop features for.
My question for HN is - how would you go about attracting users to this kind of project?
All is built with Postgres, Rust and Preact. Done as a pastime to work.
I'm sharing it now because I promised myself to do so before the end of the year!
I've added a discord link on the website, but you can also contact me at cerpinsmiks@gmail.com.
Merry Christmas!
- boruto_uzumaki 9mo agoPhone hacking
- cerpins 9mo agohuh?
- fuzzfactor 9mo agoGhost of Questionable New Users Present ;) You never know who's going to drop in and say humbug :\ Merry Christmas to you too. This looks like the real Mahjong, very well done. Back in the 1960's I played with old timers on a set that was antique back then, mostly bamboo but a few ivory pieces.
- cerpins 9mo agohey! thanks for the comment! thought the post drowned, as it should on Christmas :) where did you come across mahjong players back in 1960? sounds like a good time.
- fuzzfactor 9mo agoApparently some of the older ladies who had moved down from New York to South Florida had been playing it socially since World War II. I got the idea they had been doing it in Europe beforehand, one was a Holocaust survivor. They loved it when some of us teenagers took an interest and joined in. That was by the 1970's.