I developed a FOSS Minesweeper-like game using Kot...

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[Stefan Oltmann]

I developed a FOSS Minesweeper-like game using Kotlin/WASM! K

Try it on https://stefan-oltmann.de/mines 🎮

As always you find the source in my GitHub repo. 🙂
Feel free to leave a star. 😉

The web version was actually a by-product. My main goal is to release this as a free, ad-free Minesweeper game on the Amazon App Store.
My 7-year-old daughter has a Fire Tablet, which doesn’t have access to Google Play. I hadn’t realized how limited the Amazon App Store was when I got it - there's only one Minesweeper app, and it’s poorly made, riddled with ads, or paywalled. So, I decided to do something about it. 😃

The app release is coming soon! 🚀

[Pablichjenkov]

Works great on Android mobile web.

[Stefan Oltmann]

Thank you for the feedback and your star. 🙂

[James Yox]

I've managed to side load Google Play on an Amazon tablet. This was a while ago though and there might be more preventing that now, unsure. Anyway, this is really neat! I'm always curious to see more people use compose for things like games. I always thought you could build a deck builder using compose.

Works great on Firefox/Linux 🙂

[Stefan Oltmann]

Google Play into the kids account? I found an old tutorial which had many steps, looked very complicated and mentioned it might work no longer.

I figured spending two weekends making my own game might be a better use of my time. 😅

[PHondogo]

Nice work! One issue found - top right corner. 2 - has only one around.

[Joram Visser]

I think you can horizontally scroll and there probably would be another to the right. 😄

[PHondogo]

You right! Didnt notice scroll.

[CLOVIS]

Looking nice!

[Frank Bouwens]

Very nice 😄 !

[Stefan Oltmann]

Now also available on Google Play 🚀

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.stefan_oltmann.mines

[Stefan Oltmann]

@Frank Bouwens Thank you for your support 🙏🏻 🙂

[ephemient]

btw, of course it's not the same, but if you just wanted to play on a fire tablet, there's long been a pretty good web minesweeper game: https://proxx.app/ (not kotlin though)

[Stefan Oltmann]

I blocked the web browser for her. She can browse the web when she’s ten or so.

My app still doesn’t show up on the kids store and Amazon wasn’t helpful here at all.
I found out that I can „buy“ the app for my account and use family content share to add it to her account.
So there are indeed more Minesweeper options that I only see now and that I could hav3 added the same way. I don’t believe any of them is ad free without payment though,

Overall Amazon Kids+ or their AppStore is not being a well made UX; I expected more.

[ephemient]

that's fair. proxx can be installed as a pwa (and so could your web version with some additional metadata) but I don't think amazon has support for that

[Bernd Prünster]

This is awesome! I am giving a talk in April about KMP and I am expecting a rather diverse crowd. I'm contemplating to add a QR-Code with the URL to your minesweeper at the beginning of my slide deck, so that those who are already familiar with the KMP basics have something Kotlin-related to pass the time while I go through the very fundamentals of KMP. I think minesweeper is perfect for that because, it is not too fancy and tempting, as everybody is familiar with it and one game is easily completed in under two minutes. Just wanted to let you know…