I made a Go variant with random Tetris-like shape drawing, and I would love your take
Hey, I've been tinkering with a Baduk variant I'm calling Tetris-Baduk, and I'd love to hear your take before I take it further.
The core idea: each turn you draw a random 3-stone shape (empty triangle, tiger's mouth, etc.) and place all 3 stones at once.
You can rotate and flip through 8 orientations before placing. Everything else stays close to Go:
- Standard capture rules
- Self-capture allowed as a tactical option
- Two consecutive passes end the game
- Chinese area scoring
- Board size is configurable (I've been testing on 13×13)
- player can put the shape on top of their own stones but not on top of the opponent's stones.
I made it partly as a fast, chaotic variation of Baduk. and I'd love your thoughts on anything about the rules or the design—the luck/skill balance, etc.
And would a web version of this be something worth building out properly?