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The board in King of the Hill

Today on IRC I showed one of my KotH games and although I did mention it was this variant, someone still got confused and thought it was a normal game.

The board is slightly different for KotH but I think better can be done. If I may, I'd suggest two ideas:

* different colors for the fours central squares. Like blue and red.
* a ostensible flag drawing right in the middle of the board.

We've played with ideas like this, altering the colours of the central squares, borders, etc... The issue is that anything too dramatic is very jarring to play with. So I don't think that using drastically different colours is a good idea.

However there's nothing stopping you from downloading the board images and trying to come up with a better solution. Or even playing with custom boards. Just change the line "../images/board/X.jpg" to an imgur URL with the board you'd like to test ( http://i.imgur.com/fns7Zcs.png )

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