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Since people seemed to like this non-Flash Go game ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678145 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678145 ) I thought I would t
by jacktasia 17y ago
Since people seemed to like this non-Flash Go game ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678145 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678145 ) I thought I would try and see if I could get any reviews for my side project Mancala Time. I'll admit I submitted this (in a very early form) about 3 months ago but no one made any comments. Thanks.
- michael_dorfman 17y agoI thought the implementation looked very nice, although I hadn't played by those rules before. Well done.
- jacktasia 17y agoThanks for checking it out. Yeah, mancala is a genre of games. This is actually kalah, but most americans know this version as "mancala." If the site catches on I plan on adding Oware...which is my guess of the version that you are used to? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalah
- jcw 17y agoKalah is a simple and somewhat broken game (the first player is heavily favored). I would very much like to see Oware or Bao supported, these are much deeper mancala games. I haven't seen many implementations of Oware (outside of GNU Aware). The flash/java implementations of Bao also leave a little to be desired: http://www.baogame.com/ http://www.baogame.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_(mancala_game) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_(mancala_game)
- jacktasia 17y agoTrue story on Kalah being broken. This is the main reason why I added in the ability for users to be 2nd player. I will start to work on Oware sometime soon now that it seems like there is at real interest in it. Thanks.
- michael_dorfman 17y agoI've played a few different variants (some with 3 seeds, some with 4, some with captures, some without) but all of them involved "relay sowing".