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Show HN: Scorecard.gg - minimalist scoring tool for your favorite
board games
Author : thomaspark
Score : 75 points
Date : 2023-11-07 14:33 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (scorecard.gg)
(TXT) w3m dump (scorecard.gg)
| Buckaroo9 wrote:
| As you add additional games, I would include a search bar on the
| main page.
| thomaspark wrote:
| Good thought, I'll add it to todos.
| rmorey wrote:
| Glad to see Wingspan featured prominently! I love that game
| tuccinator wrote:
| I mean it's no surprise with it being one of the most popular
| board games right now. I finally got around to purchasing it
| about a month ago and I really like it as well. Has the perfect
| balance between simplicity and strategy.
| tuccinator wrote:
| Love the minimalist look of the cards. I'll try this out in the
| coming days.
| extraduder_ire wrote:
| Is there any way to add unlisted games? This looks like a simple
| spreadsheet type thing, unless I'm missing some key detail.
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| I assume each game's scorecard is stored as json somewhere, or is
| a javascript object with the rows being preset icons/strings.
| Looks very useful.
| iamevn wrote:
| Can I contribute games I'd like to add? Or maybe run a local
| version customized for the games my group plays?
| thomaspark wrote:
| I'm accepting suggestions for games to add, since pretty I'm
| out of touch with the scene and there's so many amazing new
| ones to keep up with.
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| As far as contributing, maybe I'll put this up on GitHub...
| harry_ord wrote:
| As a way for individuals to contribute?
| pkulak wrote:
| Be nice to just have a "default" that's just names, rounds
| and scores, which would cover like 1000 card games.
| thomaspark wrote:
| Just added it here:
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| https://scorecard.gg/games/generic/
| goosethe wrote:
| I'll 2nd this. you should add some general protocol to add
| games. and how no catan?
| twostorytower wrote:
| I'm not sure Catan makes sense for this. Keeping tabs on the
| other player's score is part of the game. If a player has a
| development card face down, you never really know their
| actual score for sure, and you have to consider the unknown
| into your strategy.
| colemannugent wrote:
| Could you add a general "game" for round-based games?
|
| The current Scrabble score-card is close, but it would be nice to
| have a per-round score and a running total as columns.
| thomaspark wrote:
| Absolutely! I meant to add it back, I originally had one front
| and center on the landing page. Lots of uses for it.
| cadooo wrote:
| Mosaic will be useful. Can't believe the retail version didn't
| come with anything to track score.
| thomaspark wrote:
| Thanks for the suggestion, I'll add it.
| maweaver wrote:
| I tried Scrabble on my phone in portrait mode (which IMO is the
| use case you should be optimizing for) and am finding it not very
| usable. Not trying to be overly negative, but here are some
| things I'm seeing:
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| - Even with 2 players seeing everyone's score requires horizontal
| scrolling, which is annoying.
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| - In addition, the scrollbars seems to only appear when a cell is
| selected. And even then it only actually works with 2 finger
| scrolling. And even then, it is inconsistent.
|
| - Having to double tap in to enter a score is annoying.
|
| - Not sure what the "play" column is for. If it's intended to be
| the word played by that player, then it's too small for many
| words, and it doesn't even make sense for many turns (e.g. player
| is connecting existing words, or passing). Furthermore, IME most
| people don't bother keeping track of previous turns words.
|
| My $.02 on improving, since I hate non-constructive criticism:
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| Make each player some sort of bottom tab, with their score
| visible. Clicking the player can show all the details.
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| Drop the "play" column.
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| Auto-prompt for next players score, don't make me find the right
| cell and double click into it. Provide special operations for
| editing previous scores or marking turns as passed, challenged,
| etc.
| thomaspark wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback, the current iteration is definitely a
| work in progress and mobile needs much polish. Your bottom tab
| idea is a good one for mobile.
|
| I'm not a regular Scrabble player so feedback from actual
| players is helpful. I've seen the play column and thought it
| was a neat-to-have feature, but on mobile it's a different
| story.
| latexr wrote:
| I like the idea and the website looks great and functional.
| Except on mobile. Yahtzee is nigh unusable on an iPhone Mini. I
| don't think anyone in my groups would go for having a laptop on
| the table near us, we'd sooner grab a new blank paper and
| scribble on it.
| captn3m0 wrote:
| I use Pointedly on iOS, but this is neat as well. Not all games
| work well with a generic scoring app, and I'll keep this in mind
| for our next session.
|
| Please add 7 Wonder: Duel also.
| thomaspark wrote:
| This project was born out of regular games of Dutch Blitz.
|
| For gaming, existing scoring apps had more complexity (and
| friction) than I was after. I wanted something quick & dirty.
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| I ended up on Google Sheets with some simple formulas. Other
| groups also started using it. It seemed to be something I could
| generalize with a bit more work, and here we are.
|
| Welcome any and all feedback.
| codefined wrote:
| I made a very minimal[0] phone only score board. Scores are
| increased by scrolling, or holding to set it to a specific value.
|
| Pressing the 'settings' tab enables modes for games like 'Whist'
| that involve betting, as well as configuring the number of
| players.
|
| [0] https://score.feud.today/
| pech0rin wrote:
| Awesome idea, definitely something I would use because I play
| yahtzee a lot randomly. But when I play board games I only have
| my phone so mobile version needs a lot of work. I have to imagine
| most people are the same so in my opinion you should think about
| that as default usecase when thinking of UI. Will follow the
| project. Nice work
| croisillon wrote:
| disappointed by the end of the first screenshot starting with
| "John, Paul, George, Ri..."
| Groxx wrote:
| For random point-tracking, I keep going back to Rounds:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.publicobje...
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| It's one of the few to escape the Excel-but-simpler model, and
| due to that and the input wheel it's much quicker for doing stuff
| out of order or making adjustments, and that's super common for
| me.
| shanecleveland wrote:
| I've made https://leaderboardhq.com for general scorekeeping.
| Main use case was a scoreboard that kept track of rounds and
| sets.
| stevage wrote:
| Feedback:
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| Cell input should be a number type so mobile keyboard defaults to
| numbers.
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| Entry cells should scroll separately from row headers.
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| Can't remove players.
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| Plus and minus buttons on cell entry would be nice.
|
| (I tried the Wingspan one)
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