Designing Boardgames and How Tech (and React) Can Help
summary
A Connect Four variant called Diagonal 4 is implemented as an 8x8 grid with gravity from left or right and a single reducer action, rendered by CSS transform rotate 45 degrees and placed into board game Mayo Portimao for state and rules; adding AI takes about five lines of code that run random playout trees with configurable iterations so win probabilities emerge, making balance checks fast while noting social table dynamics remain unsimulatable.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:43Who am I
- 0:58History of Boardgames
- 1:44Current Games
- 2:38Dont repeat yourself
- 2:50Copy a game you like
- 3:13Introducing First Own Rules
- 3:31Introducing Diagonal 4
- 4:13Board Game Mayo
- 5:52Game AI
- 7:04More interesting
- 7:20Outro
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