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Show HN: Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser
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Ghana Street Games is a browser-based collection that recreates childhood games from Ghanaian streets and compounds. It offers 35 games, with rules and stories alongside play, and presents them as a shared cultural experience rather than a single game. The featured 3D arena, “The Compound,” includes configurable activities such as floor football, with caps or counters as players and folded-paper goals. Players can adjust teams, formations, venues, goal markers, rules, difficulty, camera angle, and controls; play against a computer or take turns with friends on one device. Keyboard, mouse, and touch input are supported, and games can be installed to a home screen.
The platform also supports private online rooms for human players across all 35 games, with no computer filling empty seats, plus public nicknames, saved points, and an all-games leaderboard. Friend-match results earn experience points, and certain board-game moves are verified by the server. Players can save short match replays, change sound and graphics settings, and recover their profile using a private key. The site says internet access is needed to load games and play online, while optional analytics are off by default. Overall, it combines playable digital versions of local games with customization, social play, and lightweight online progression.
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