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Blocade
Race to the far side. Wall in your rival. 2-minute duels.
Race your pawn across the board and wall in your rival. If you like Quoridor, Blocade is the fast 1v1 take — free in your browser, plus bots and puzzles.
Hi PH 👋 I'm Francis, solo dev on Blocade.
I got obsessed with this genre — the race-and-wall duel where you sprint your pawn to the opposite side and drop walls to send your opponent the long way round. Two rules, learn it in a minute. But every version I tried was either a clunky port or wanted an account before it'd let me play a single game.
The part that surprised me was the data. Once ranked play was running I had 33,165 human games and 3.4M moves, and I couldn't find another published dataset this size for the genre. Some of it contradicted what I assumed: the first player wins 49.8%, so going first is a coin flip. 97.3% of games open with a pawn move rather than a wall. And win rate rises the later you place your first wall — the instinct to wall early is just wrong.
That changed how I built the bots. They were tuned to play "correctly" and it made them feel robotic, so I rebuilt difficulty around when they commit walls instead of how deep they search.
Free in the browser, no signup: playblocade.com
Feedback I'd most like: does the bot ladder ramp too fast? It's the hardest thing I've had to tune.
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About Blocade on Product Hunt
“Race to the far side. Wall in your rival. 2-minute duels.”
Blocade was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #94 on the daily leaderboard. Race your pawn across the board and wall in your rival. If you like Quoridor, Blocade is the fast 1v1 take — free in your browser, plus bots and puzzles.
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