Roadmap
The app was built during Build, Ship, Shape: Amazon Developer Hackathon 2026. This page says where it stands.
Every feature here was played on the Vega Virtual Device, and the app’s automated tests cover it. None has run on a Fire TV Stick yet.
- A native board in React Native for Vega, played entirely with the remote.
- Hotseat on one remote, saving after every action, and the record of results.
- A five-lesson tutorial and a rules guide.
- Sound for every step of the game.
- Three computer opponents, Rolly, Grabby and Rampage, as either colour.
- Moves that slide to their squares, so an opponent’s turn can be followed.
- Music that follows the game, and Settings for the music and the sound effects.
- Five public pre-releases, with a playtest guide.
- The tester round: people who have never seen the game play it, on the Vega Virtual Device and, through Live App Testing, on their own Fire TV Sticks. See Play the beta.
- Testing on a physical Fire TV Stick, including how fast the game runs there.
- A demo video of a whole game.
What the tester round prompts comes first. Already on the list:
- a cursor that stands out when many squares are highlighted (#121);
- a mark for the pieces that can move that reads well with colour-vision deficiency (#105);
- in hotseat, turning the board to the side to move (#120);
- a short roll of the dice (#99) and a smoother first run;
- board themes and piece sets (#75);
- translations, starting with Latvian.
Later: online play with the Fortemate community.