Little Go

The new beta build 0.5 of Little Go adds handicap and komi selection to the "New game" view, and even more importantly, there is now a proper scoring feature available that calculates an accurate territory score and lets you mark stone groups as dead or alive.

I have decided that the app is now feature complete for the first public release to the App Store. In the next iteration the focus therefore will be on fixing the most glaring issues and running the app through Instruments. I have never used Instruments before, so this will be an interesting experience. Hopefully not too interesting...

After many months of slow but steady development my newest pet project Little Go has now reached a state where I feel confident enough to post a release note on the front page of herzbube.ch. Little Go is an iPhone app that lets you play the game of Go on your favourite smartphone or on your iPad. You can play against another human, or against the computer.

Little Go is still under development and not yet available in Apple's app store, but you can contact me if for some strange reason :-) you are interested in beta-testing. Please refer to the project page for details about which information I need from you, or if you simply want to download the tar ball and look at the source code.

The project page for Little Go has moved to https://littlego.herzbube.ch/.