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OpenFront: Realtime Risk-like multiplayer game in the browser

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Re: OpenFront: Realtime Risk-like multiplayer game in the browser

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Super addictive. To be fair, I still don't really get what the best strategy is, especially at the beginning, so I'm getting steamrolled by human opponents pretty easily...

Your population growth depends on your population size, so you have to not over expand at the beginning.

Get allies at the beginning so that you may aggressively conquer bots without worrying about being conquered. Those ally may cross you, but they'll have a penalty so they are disincentive to do so.

Re: OpenFront: Realtime Risk-like multiplayer game in the browser

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It is open source! Check out to GitHub and discord to contribute! https://github.com/openfrontio/openfrontio It is heavily inspired by territorial.io . One of the contributing devs made an open source version: warfront.io, which openfront is forked from and then heavily developed. Warfront did not have any multiplayer so Evan, the creator of openfront, made it multiplayer and together with contributors made lots of n…

> Recently there has been some new activity on the warfront repo

Yeah, seems there is a for-profit company running the show now, so expect some squeezing in the mid-to-long term.

Also, latest gameplay change seems to be trains, anyone had time to play around with it yet? I've played quite hours of Openfront and not sure how I feel about the train addition yet.

Re: OpenFront: Realtime Risk-like multiplayer game in the browser

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post #15

20 years ago I was addicted to a game like that named Globalcombat.com. Good times. Few years ago it was still alive. Now it seems gone.

Risk Games are kind of niche but have a hardcore base. Check out Risk Legacy SC2 custom map, and Line Wars on Steam.

Re: OpenFront: Realtime Risk-like multiplayer game in the browser

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post #15

20 years ago I was addicted to a game like that named Globalcombat.com. Good times. Few years ago it was still alive. Now it seems gone.

Risk Games are kind of niche but have a hardcore base. Check out Risk Legacy SC2 custom map, and Line Wars on Steam.

I would argue that Risk games are not that niche, but I am currently too busy conquering 18 territories with 2 armies at least.

Re: OpenFront: Realtime Risk-like multiplayer game in the browser

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I'ts fun, I think it needs queues for different game modes because with 150 players you almost always get horded by neighbours. Being able to queue for a team game would make it a bit easier to learn I think

There is a singleplayer mode too, which is how I learned to play before jumping into multiplayer.
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