Show HN: Digital player board for Terraforming Mars (opens in new tab)

Thank you! Yes this had actually become a problem for us but it weirdly ended up adding an interesting new dynamic to the game. So much so that we'd actively try and hide our resources from each other and had to try to keep track of each other's resources in our heads (the irony in adding a digital calculator only to increase cognitive load is very real). But yeah, I can imagine not everyone would want to play like this and a compact summary could solve that issue. I shall see what I can do :)

That is actually a good pet project. Find the most suitable hardware for a boardgame setting.

Screen technology/form factor.

Maybe there is even a market for hybrid kind of games?

(Right, I guess monopoly with the calculator flopped. But never give up!)

I tried to convince the publisher to add cutouts for pieces when they went to reprint an even more deluxe version, but they were unconvinced.

My cat sees your notches and raises a paw.

Good idea thanks!

Yip! Should just be for the current tab though so that we can forward/back through our score history. If that's not the case, please let me know :)

Thanks! Yeah totally, it should be fairly easy to do. Could select the game variant after selecting a new game. I'll see what I can do :)

Ooh fair enough. I'll add an option to disable that, thanks!

I don’t think this is a standalone version. It’s a helper tool to replace all the pieces of the board game.

It's not obvious, but you have to hold down the button, even after the "progress bar" fills up.

It looks like you have to hold down the production phase button for a bit

Thanks for this, I'll fix it asap :)

Yes this is a problem and a great idea thanks! Adding to my TODO list :)

Are you on Android by any chance? if so, I think that would be Android's weird browser bar hiding behaviour when you get to the bottom of the page, or just something weird I overlooked. Could probs add some padding to avoid that which I shall do, thanks!

I contributed a bit to this projet. Fun maintainer. I stopped when I learned that Terraforming Mars author's was transphobic and racist.

If you like TM, try Wingspan and Ark Nova!

Thanks! Looks like they've recreated the entire game, it even has decent docs. Will defs give it a go!

Before going to expansions, I’d strongly suggest playing Ares Expedition, the card game. It keeps 90% of the feel of the board game but speeds the game up substantially and gives a lot more opportunity to make it through the deck.

Pleasure! Yes it is open source: https://github.com/shaunsaker/tm-player-board. I'll add a link to the home page too :)

Apparently just a side project that was used by only two people in the world :)