Today I started working on my project Onlinja!

Storytime

When I was searching gift ideas for father’s day I suddenly thought of board games. He loves them! And was learning chess at that time too.

Having no exact ideas in mind, I went searching. Many games were too complex for me to teach, and I wanted that game to be 3D-printable.

I stumbled upon Linja - an abstract and simple strategy game for 2 players. It’s no too popular, but I fell in love with it, made 3D files myself and printed it out! After gifting it, I feel like it’s very much underrated, so I got an idea!

The idea

The idea is simple - making a local bot and online application that lets anyone enjoy a Linja-inspired game from their phones and browsers!

The plan

The plan is to take React Native and target web, Android and iOS builds of the app, code a server architecture and a bot algorithm.

Why’s it a great project?

Not only will I be able to develop my skills in agent harness engineering, testing, web deelopment and websockets (things I haven’t touched yet), but the completed project will be fully functional and entertaining!

---

I have nothing to show off yet, as only the initialization stage is being completed, but I will update you all as soon as I finish doing something!