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Since today is the day of Show HNs, here's a Show HN within a Show HN: For some ridiculous reason, I recently cloned a semi-decent chunk of Civ4 in TypeScript

Since today is the day of Show HNs, here's a Show HN within a Show HN: For some ridiculous reason, I recently cloned a semi-decent chunk of Civ4 in TypeScript and made a minigame out of it: http://dumbmatter.com/barbconq/ http://dumbmatter.com/barbconq/ It's open source if anyone else is interested: http://github.com/dumbmatter/barbconq/ http://github.com/dumbmatter/barbconq/ Of course it pales in comparison to Freeciv, which is why this is only a Show HN within a Show HN rather than a Show HN on its own :)

roschdal 12y ago
Nice project you've got going there, perhaps a "Find and capture the barbarian capital" mod for Freeciv (or Freeciv-web) could be something to think about.
- kzrdude 12y ago
  Ideally it should be possible with a scenario script, I know that feature isn't that well explored though.
- streptomycin 12y ago
  Thanks! The only reason I made it that way is because it let me produce something playable without yet implementing techs, the economy, real AI, etc :)
  - PavlovsCat 12y ago
    Personally, I would find even a very simple AI, as long as it plays under the exact same rules as the player, potentially more interesting than the admittedly cool stuff civ4 has. I just felt a bit cheated once I got better at the game and read up on it, e.g. there is not a single difficulty level where players and AI are simply equal, and people reported the AI having fishy knowledge of things going on at the other end of the map. To me, even an AI that plays along very simple patterns can be fun while I am still figuring out those patterns; but if it's having cheaty knowledge, then even the fun I had becomes a bit unfun in hindsight once I saw through that. Just my 2 cents and all that, of course, not trying to tell you how to make your game ^^ Just encouraging you that even super simple AI might be fun. Of course multiplayer is the best, but even then, having derpy AI in the middle to use against other humans = always fun, as long as the AI is consistent and doesn't cheat, IMHO.

roschdal 12y ago

Nice project you've got going there, perhaps a "Find and capture the barbarian capital" mod for Freeciv (or Freeciv-web) could be something to think about.

kzrdude 12y ago
Ideally it should be possible with a scenario script, I know that feature isn't that well explored though.
streptomycin 12y ago
Thanks! The only reason I made it that way is because it let me produce something playable without yet implementing techs, the economy, real AI, etc :)
- PavlovsCat 12y ago
  Personally, I would find even a very simple AI, as long as it plays under the exact same rules as the player, potentially more interesting than the admittedly cool stuff civ4 has. I just felt a bit cheated once I got better at the game and read up on it, e.g. there is not a single difficulty level where players and AI are simply equal, and people reported the AI having fishy knowledge of things going on at the other end of the map. To me, even an AI that plays along very simple patterns can be fun while I am still figuring out those patterns; but if it's having cheaty knowledge, then even the fun I had becomes a bit unfun in hindsight once I saw through that. Just my 2 cents and all that, of course, not trying to tell you how to make your game ^^ Just encouraging you that even super simple AI might be fun. Of course multiplayer is the best, but even then, having derpy AI in the middle to use against other humans = always fun, as long as the AI is consistent and doesn't cheat, IMHO.