Week 454 was posted by Charanjit Chana on 2026-07-08.
About a year ago I came up with an idea for a game, it was a simple strategy game where you needed to take control of a board. I prototyped it and had it ready in a matter of hours. But the game play was became repetitive and predictably you would just fall into the pattern of either avoiding your appointment or you'd both counteract each other continuously.
Playing noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) with my son, I realised I could re-use the same mechanism to combine the two concepts and create a new strategy game based on tic-tac-toe and so Tixato was born.
Currently free, you'll find Tixato in the App Store. The price will increase come August but I'd love to get people playing and any feedback would be appreciated.
It's a game designed to be played in person, just place your device between two people and you can begin playing. It starts as a simply game of tic-tac-toe, but after the first grid, your next one is influenced by the last. As you move through, you'll find the centre grid might have been influenced by the previous 8 playable grids. First to 5 wins.
You can more details on the game play on the Tixato product page and I will be putting a product demo video together soon to really show of the simplicity and the strategy behind Tixato.