Hormuz Trail: Oregon Trail Parody Built as Black-Box AI Coding Exercise

Summary

Hormuz Trail is a browser-based strategy game inspired by the 1985 MECC Oregon Trail, where players captain a merchant ship through the Strait of Hormuz facing hazards like mines and narrow passages. The project was shared on Hacker News as a 'Show HN' post and is framed as both a parody game and a black-box AI coding exercise. The game appears to be a side project or demonstration piece rather than a product from a major vendor. Its description as a 'black-box AI coding exercise' suggests it w