Review my web game, the Freeciv HTML5 version, again 5 years later

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19 points·roschdal··6 comments

Hi again Hacker News, please review my HTML5 web game again. It has been almost 5 years since the launch on HN here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1005299). I would be happy to answer any questions about the development of the game and share my experiences from the journey of developing and running this free web game. The game is open source, so please check out the source code on Github: https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web

fwiw, I'd really like to see and actually would invest time playing a civ type game that treated the history/technology angle seriously. link it to wikipedia, for example.

Sure, linking techs to more details on Wikipedia should be possible. Do you have more suggestions about how to do things better with respect to history and technology?

Is there a reason to ask people for their names? To just try it out, I first just ignored it and pressed "Start". When that failed, I typed "a" as my name and tried again, which also failed.

The player name is used several places in the game to distinguish between different players. This is particularly useful in multi-player games. You can enter any name, the game doesn't care which. Is asking for player name a too high barrier?

Maybe there would be less objection if the question asked for a "player name" instead of "your name".

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