🐢Tortuga

Tortuga is a two-player strategy game fought out on a hexagonal board. Each player commands a squad of turtles racing to land one on the tiki goal hex on the far side — wiping out the enemy team wins too.

The movement system is where the strategy lives: turtles only move by hopping over an adjacent turtle into the empty hex beyond. Hop an opponent and it flips belly-up — dead, but not gone, because hopping over a dead turtle resurrects it onto whichever team you choose. Hops chain, with one catch: every live turtle you cross in a single chain must belong to the same team, while dead turtles chain freely.

Under the hood it's a TypeScript monorepo: a Next.js/React client, a shared types package keeping both sides honest, and a Socket.IO server embedded in a Next.js API route. The multiplayer rules engine — captures, resurrections, win conditions, rematch flow — runs server-side, with live lobbies, a challenge/accept flow and real-time move sync between players.

Single-player runs against one of three hand-built AI opponents, from a friendly Easy to a Hard that punishes loose play. The whole game ships as a multi-stage Docker build, self-hosted on a VPS behind nginx, with CSP frame-ancestors headers scoped so it embeds securely in this portfolio's iframe.