River Tiles

I enjoyed this a lot once I figured out the rules. The screenshot example in the comments really helped to explain - it reminds me of playing Go, where groups of stones need liberties to survive. Instructions and scoring could use some work but the game itself is fun and addicting.

I tried playing on Itch, but I just got a white screen and clicking "New Game" did nothing. These warnings and errors were in the browser console:

Edit: Whoops, just saw there was another thread about this lower down, sorry ;~;

I like this! Some sound effects would really take it up a notch, as would some kind of post-game explanation as to why you won or lost. Even just a little cross through any village that was lost would be a big help.

I completely forgot that villages couldn't be "isolated" until I skimmed through the comments here, and I'm still not certain what "access to another village" means: I'm assuming it follows much the same rules as the river movement (in that villages can't be separated by forest) but it isn't made obvious in the instructions.

Also, just seconding the idea about turning this into an app. It's exactly the sort of chilled-out, non-time-sensitive game I like to play during ad breaks on TV.

I can't seem to get the game to run? I've tried on Chrome, Safari and the Itch.io desktop app, the tutorial button works but the new game button does nothing. Am I overlooking something?

The flooding starts when four tiles are acquired, right? I keep drawing three, and then the game ends. It's either that or a typo.

I love this game, but echoing other comments below, I do wish that scores could be reset, and that a tutorial round was available! After the learning curve, though, I've been really enjoying it. Excellent work! If there's ever an app, I'd totally buy this for my phone.

Edit: I've also noticed that there are games where I genuinely can't figure out why I lost villages, it might be nice (though it may be a lot of work) to have a togglable option to see why certain villages were lost. It's also not very colorblind friendly, which may be where part of my struggle is coming from. Maybe some edit ability for the tile colors?

Honestly kind of obsessed with this game, I can't stop playing! It's so simple yet so fun. Kind of confused about the 'point' system though, particularly the saved/lost count. I thought I was doing pretty good but after the flood, it said I lost my 8 villages? :( [image below] 

Overall a very enjoyable game, and very relaxing :) 

I may be a total idiot, but I feel like I really need some rules clarifications here! Some I have figured out on my own--like water can go in any direction, this is a top down view, etc. But when villages need "access" to each other, does that mean direct orthogonal placement? Can corn be placed anywhere so long as it isn't flooded and matches the number of villages? Etc. I'm still not sure how to play correctly. Also, the running tally of saved and lost villages without saying what that particular game's score was is confusing, I have to remember what my old tally was to double check how many I saved this time. Perhaps not necessary if I wasn't trying to use that information to test rules and guess which villages were the failures and which were not.

Interesting little puzzler! I wish the UI for dragging and dropping tiles was a bit more clear though.