Glad it works now! For now I don’t need either: the site is just the game, so I’ve switched the bot check to log-only and kept rate limits on the parts that save scores and accounts.

Anubis would mean putting my own proxy server in front of the site, which doesn’t fit how it’s hosted right now. Altcha is more my speed. If bots ever start hammering the sign-up or score forms, I’d rather put a quiet proof-of-work check like that on just those forms than make every visitor wait on a “verify” screen again. Thanks for the pointers!

I never considered that the glasses may look that way, they’re intended to have the normal granny look of them being down toward the tip of the nose and her being leaned over. The kid’s sleeve is intended to be shading consistent with the rest of the characters, but agree it’s not executed very well and will try to fix both. His hat propellor is just made to be in the same idea as any propellor hat, and is a slightly different shade, but going to make it a bit clearer.

Grandma can see in all directions, but only a short distance each way, which is consistent with being old and not seeing very far. The other characters can see across the board. The dog’s strength is that he can “see” through walls with smell, but I have to nerf him somehow. There is also a cat character that gives the “side eye” and that character sees diagonally across the whole board. I have ideas for other characters, but I need to take creative liberty here. The family is intentional, I’d like to expand to different games using the same cast of characters eventually.

The dotted lines indicate areas where the liar cannot see/can see. The boy moving is because placement matters for a score bonus, but not for determining who the liar is. Going to try to clear all this up a bit more and definitely going to take the dotted lines off at least.

Thanks so much for your feedback, I appreciate you. It’s extremely difficult to get feedback from people despite a lot of people playing it consistently now. I know you are not a fan of any of the AI use, so you taking the time matters a lot and I appreciate it.

Thanks for wanting to play, and sorry about that! It’s not your browser: the game is plain web pages with drawn SVG art, no WebGL, and it runs fine in Firefox. That “verify” screen is my web host’s bot check, and it’s being too strict with privacy-hardened browsers like IronFox. I’m turned it down. Give it another try and it should load straight in let me know if it doesn’t as you’re now my tester

What do you mean by ‘inconsistent’? Yes the art is finalized by AI, but it’s from polishes of my own sketches. Do you mean that the board pieces are different from the logo? That’s intentional.

Please let me know what decisions are odd and overengineered from your view. I’ve intentionally added depth and complexity because most daily games lack any kind of real effort.

For reference, cyber background, prior code experience. I’ve put immense effort into the quality/security of the codebase.