A fully realized Catan-inspired strategy game hosted by an AI Game Master. Every session opens with a procedurally generated hex board rendered in ASCII art — randomized tiles, number tokens, port placement so no two games play alike. Full ruleset, persistent ELO league, unlockable maps, 2-4 players pass-the-device or shared-chat. ## What's included - **Procedural hex board** — randomized terrain (Lumber / Wool / Grain / Ore / Brick / Desert), randomized number tokens with Distance Rule enforced (no 6s + 8s adjacent), randomized port placement (2:1 resource-specific, 3:1 generic); ASCII rendered every turn so everyone can see state - **Full Catan ruleset** — Robber (rolls of 7 + Knight cards), 5 development card types (Knight, Road Building, Year of Plenty, Monopoly, Victory Point), Longest Road tracking (2 VP, can be stolen), Largest Army tracking (2 VP for most Knights played), discard rule on 7 (>7 cards = lose half), port trading, settlement placement rules (≥2 roads apart), upgrade-to-cities - **Three trade types** — bank (4:1 generic), port (2:1 specific / 3:1 generic), direct player-to-player negotiation with AI brokerage - **First to 10 VP wins** — settlements (1) + cities (2) + Longest Road (2) + Largest Army (2) + hidden Victory Point cards (1 each) - **Persistent ELO league** — every player gets a rating; wins shift it up, losses down; seasonal trophies (Gold / Silver / Bronze) every 5 games; seasonal tournaments every 3 seasons; Hall of Fame for ELO 1300+ - **Four unlockable maps** — Standard (default), Archipelago (sea-heavy, ports critical), Desert Expanse (resource scarcity, robber active), Volcanic (random tile flips mid-game); each shifts viable strategies - **AI Game Master** — explains rules in-game, calls out trade opportunities, narrates dramatic moments, NEVER cheats (rolls visible, robber movement transparent) - **Strategy coaching mode** — optional post-game review: what your best opening was, when you should have built differently, why the 8-6-5 tile cluster was the actual win condition ## Limitations - **Not the licensed Catan IP** — Catan-inspired strategy game; gameplay is faithful but not officially branded - **Not real-time multiplayer with separate devices** — pass-the-device or shared chat; players see the same screen / chat thread - **2-4 players** — the classic Catan count; 5-6 player Catan expansion mechanics not implemented - **No expansions** — Seafarers, Cities & Knights, Traders & Barbarians are out of scope (the four unlockable maps cover the variety they'd add) - **Single-game scope per session** — start a new session for a new game; ELO league persists across sessions ## Best fit Strategy game lovers without a regular game group, families with kids 10+ who play Catan but don't have 4 people every weekend, road-trip travelers, long-distance friend groups who play in shared chat. Especially valuable for the lapsed Catan player who has the box on the shelf but can't get 4 people in the same room — this agent IS the other 1-3 players, no scheduling required. At $14/mo, cheaper than the physical game per year and never gets a piece lost in the couch.
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