Rebuilding Coterie

Back in 2016 I built Coterie in about a week, mostly as an excuse to get comfortable with flexbox. It was a two player card game on a 4x4 board in the spirit of Triple Triad, and the one idea in it I still liked was the coterie: match an opponent’s notch exactly and the card you take fires off its own notches, which can take another card, which can fire again. Everything else aged badly. The cards were CSS boxes with dots on them, and the AI picked a random empty slot. It has been sitting on my GitHub profile looking exactly like a 2016 side project, which is what it was. ...

April 19, 2025 · 4 min