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Show HN: Astrial – Spherical Go on a Snub Dodecahedron
Astrial (星逐) is an online Go variant played on the surface of a sphere. The board is a subdivided snub dodecahedron — an Archimedean solid — giving 302 intersections connected as a closed spherical graph. No edges, no corners, every direction is equivalent.
The topology creates a mix of 3-, 4-, and 5-degree vertices, so each point has a different number of liberties. 5-degree points border more (and larger) faces, making them the most valuable territory; 3-degree points are the easiest to surround. Scoring is area-based: the sphere's 300 quadrilateral faces are allocated proportionally to surrounding stones, with a 2.5% komi for White.
Standard Go rules apply — alternating play, capture when no liberties, no suicide, and positional Superko. The game ends on two consecutive passes.
https://astrial.app https://astrial.app
- gus_massa 7mo agoPerhaps a better link is https://astrial.app/rules https://astrial.app/rules There is a button to swicth language, but it has not the usual flag or ¤/A symbol. Is it possible to add https://astrial.app/rules#en https://astrial.app/rules#en or something like that? Do you have images of the game? A 2 minite video?
- perilunar 7mo agoNeither the rules link nor the home page are much good for anyone who wants to get a quick look at how it works. Pages of text — great. I'm not going to register just to see a game in action. How about a demo page? Let me play a quick game against an AI, or show me a game being played. A video would be ok, but i think people would rather play with the thing.