Key features:
Fully open-source code available on GitHub, inviting community contributions and transparency
Custom-designed font created by the developer to enhance the game’s unique style
Cross-platform support: play on iOS, Android
Lightweight, intuitive interface that stays true to the timeless puzzle mechanics
Try it now:
Website: https://pegma.vercel.app
GitHub: https://github.com/khlebobul/pegma
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ru/app/pegma-peg-solitaire/id67543438...
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.khlebobul....
If you appreciate open-source projects and classic brain teasers, Pegma is definitely worth checking out!
For example, saying "code available on GitHub, inviting community contributions and transparency." I know what GitHub is, I understand the benefits of having it there, it's just a waste of brain power to read the rationale written out in this way.
Similarly "Custom-designed font created by the developer to enhance the game’s unique style?" Ok, that's great, but do I really care about that specific detail? It sounds like there was a conversation with an LLM and then a request to regurgitate the information into marketing speak, without any consideration for the actual needs of the people being marketed to.
Again, I know I'm probably increasingly alone in this and I'll have to just get used to it, but as a lover of writing it feels like watching a tragedy play out in real time.
I have the same complaint at work, where coworkers are using it for writing pull request descriptions, and it pumps out slop buzzwords like “streamlined the documentation”. Like, you didn’t streamline anything, you ran prettier on a markdown file!
On top of this type of description being useless marketing jargon, the writing style risks to train future LLMs to devolve their writing styles further into this. More frighteningly, how long until the excess amount of LLM-generated slop text like this starts training future humans reading it? People tend to model how they speak off of what they hear and read, and it’s everywhere now.
infohazard!
EDIT: It seems based on other comments you are genuinely unaware of how it sounds, which is totally fine - I feel someone should let you know it sounds like "peg me" or "smegma", which uh... well, ask an LLM what they mean, I suppose. I don't particularly want that in my HN comment history. :D
Advice would then be to avoid short names for products altogether.
Mitsubishi renamed the Pajero in Spain, because "pajero" means "wanker".
It is part of Simon Tatham's puzzle collection, it also has an app on F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles/
And the sgt-puzzles package on Debian/Ubuntu, possibly other distros package it too.