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Show HN: I built a strategic PvP word game where each move is just one letter
When I was in school, my teacher used to play this game to our class. You add one letter turnwise and try to make a word. Later, I tried searching for this game but didn't find the exact match anywhere. The closest was Scrabble, but it was too complicated. So, I decided to build my own.
I did make some modifications to make the game more challenging and fun. Back then, we would start with a blank board and also score 2 letter words. Here, the game gets prefilled with random letters so the game becomes more different each time. No scoring for two letter words. The best thing that I added was the combos. If your letter makes 2 or more words, you will get a multiplier for each subsequent word, so the challenge becomes finding a way to score more combos.
And I also added daily puzzles where you get 5 boards, and you need to find the best spot and best letter that scores the most. You can share the Wordle-like result to your friends.
- shippedbytim 3mo agoThis is a pretty cool game, reminds me of the old days with miniclips! Just a suggestion, my first impression was to try and click on the keyboard letters then on the empty space - which didn't work very well, even with dragging the letters to the space. I think typing out the letters is a lot easier, and it could be good to have some temporary indicators by the side when a game first loads for a new user!
- sonOfHades 3mo agoThat is a really good find. The way I built it is that you click on the space first, then click on the letter. I will update it so it goes both ways. Dragging should work fine though. Since it's a flutter app, it does feel a little laggy on mobile web browsers. Thank you so much for playing.