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Comment by Kiro | Hacker News Reader

You should make it possible to inspect games without an account. I love that you've made your Trello open btw! Very cool to have it next to Facebook and Twitter.

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You just should find the game ID you want to spectate and browse this:

https://overthrown.io/game/:id

https://overthrown.io/game/38c752cf-40a2-4dd1-8c97-631dd56a4...

You can find game id's in the Websocket frames using inspector tools on chrome.

Nothing interesting though. I think most games have just begun and with 12h turns not much has happened yet.

this should be linked in the games list!

I was spectating w/ Chrome and it figuratively melted my late 2015 MBP (sans discrete graphics card). I hate to think what this would do to a mobile device's battery.

The curse of HTML5 games. It's a damn shame because it would've become a great medium. My tin foil hat theory is that it was purposely sidelined so it wouldn't detract from the mobile gaming craze that was growing at the time.

Seconded. At least some screenshots, a video or two of game play, and a general story and game play idea, would help a lot for potential players to determine whether they would be interested or not. I don't want to have to create an account just to figure out if I would be interested in playing the game.

I signed up for the game. But while waiting for my game getting started, I found this link for spectating and read the docs, and you know what, this is one of the least fun games one could design, imo. Otherwise they would show how it plays I guess, and everything. Look:

Let's compare to the game Risk. In Risk, when two armies fight, the outcome is randomized with dice rolls. Here the outcome is totally deterministic, the larger army always wins.

Another basic combat mechanics is Rock-Paper-Scissors (Age of Empires and many other strategy games used this mechanics). You could have three kinds of military units with their strengths and weaknesses. There is no such a thing here, you just have plain soldiers and workers.

The only potentially good thing about this game is the alliance part. Still it remains unclear does it really add anything to the game mechanics or not..

I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, but it sounds more like diplomacy than risk.

Yeah, I guess so, you are right.

Yep, I'll add it to the list. Here's a game you can view.

It will look a little broken but should be viewable.

edit: Removed link, tons of people coming from hacker news.

Yea the option to spectate would be good for people like me who just want to see what the whole thing is about.

I wish there were a temp game for 3 or 4 minutes to sample the thing and it would require 2-5 players. This would make it easy to learn what happens instead of waiting 6 hours.

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