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RISK The Game On Google Maps
axonis writes "ZenChi has created a Google Maps API project based on the popular board game RISK on Google Maps. While Zen is developing a multi-player version, you can play a game right now with others huddled around your computer."
Call Newman and Kramer. And can someone program an API to find my keys?
As soon as this thing gets into online leagues, I'm afraid that my social life will be finished. This rocks.
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Google API Project maps Risk on YOU!
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With all the news about Google's great power these days, I know that when I play this I'll turn on CNN when I sent Alaskan forces against Kamchatka. On second thought, maybe not. I really don't want to have to hear George W. Bush try to pronounce "Irkutsk".
...now does anyone remember how to play Risk?
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is it news? Im waiting for the day someone makes axis and allies using google maps :)
just goes to show what a little intuition and creativity can do.
now if only we could harness the power of google and WoW to make a mind control device so powerful.....
Now all we need to do is combine this with giant Internet-guided robots and we'll be all set for World War
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I wonder if this would be a good way to encourage students to learn the geography they are so sorely lacking? What better way to learn where Uzbekistan is, than to invade Iran from it?
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Apparently the server was located in Quebec because as soon as I defeated the troops stationed there, the web site crashed.
Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?
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always start in australia ;-)
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If Bush finds this game he'll be calling for an all out assult on the green guys attacking from Mexico, America needs that continental bonus for our troops in Iraq!
1) Wow that's amazing what you can do with Google Maps.
2) But... why?
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Played in realtime, lifesize, via mobile phone, in one or more major cities in each 'territory'.
Risk is quite possibly the classic 'world war' game. A few hundred years of seasoning, and it may be equivalent to chess.
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Very neat, however, I prefer Donnrisk
I'd love to see a version of Diplomacy made to work the same way - that is my favourite boardgame of all time and I believe Risk is based on it. Diplomacy's major strength though is the lack of die - it's all strategy and negotiation, chance plays just about no role (the allocation of countries at the beginning being the only exception).
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For the record I think it looks pretty cool and no doubt will only get better. Oh and as for making it on an API that 'clearly isn't meant to support such a game' - isn't that the hacking mentality? Go out and create something that wasn't even envisioned... just for fun!
// It had been Fat's delusion for years that he could help people. --Philip K. Dick, Valis
Mod this guy down. He doesn't seem to understand that this is not a finished project yet, and he seems to be lacking in imagination as well. I tried playing it, and no it doesn't work yet. But I still think it's pretty cool. And if you are not going to mod him down, at least stop modding him up please. His post went from score:2 informative to score:3 informative while I was writing this message.Modders, you should have higher standards for what counts as informative. Note that he did not back up his statement that the API is "clearly not meant to support such a game". He really thinks that the word "clearly" is enough to carry his argument, when obviously it could only be "clear" to someone who has detailed knowledge of the API. If he does not, then he is being misleading and disingenuous, not "informative", and if he does, he hasn't told us anything about it, nor even posted a link to the API spec. Modders, you have modded a misleading post as "informative".
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Cute, but i can't help thinking that if risk uses google just to get access to a world map, then it's such a waste of resource to use google maps...
That's exactly why it's cool! Don't you understand hack-value?
I'd love a more dynamic api for GoogleEarth. At the moment it's fairly static. You can place things on the Earth, but you can't make them move. Too be able to have ICBMs flying between the US and the USSR, with little mushroom clouds....
I think Axis and Allies would be another fun version of google maps. Hell if someone did a true to the board game port to Google Maps, it would be more fun than that pc game they put out a while ago (IMO of course).
Are there any tutorials on how to play with google map's api?
Well, it's pretty, and all... but warfish.net has a perfectly functional multiplayer play-over-the-web Risk implementation, using a stylized map, including several variants. The picture on the map doesn't matter nearly so much as the gameplay does....
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C'mon now, I haven't even managed to finish the last game of RISK I started...
It's been 3 weeks, dear god someone help me...
I can't believe this guy's post is still modded +3:informative. I've been sitting
here pressing "reload" on my browser for like twenty minutes waiting for it to get modded down and for my faith in mankind to return. Once I saw the score go down to +2:informative, and then back up to +3:informative on a subsequent reload 5 seconds later. I guess there will always be enough stupid people with mod points to keep ridiculous posts like this on the top of the stack. Alright, this rant is over. I'm off to see if any other posts got +3:informative.
Risk plays map.
Wow... the wikipedia has a "warning, we've been slashdotted" template... Are there that many trolls?
There's an old saying that says pretty much whatever you want it to.
Check out globalcombat.com , it is an excellent improved upon version of risk that I've played for years on and off. It is web based and allows multiplayer games of anywhere between 2 and 32 players. Turn rates can be anywhere from 1 minute to 72 hours. Check it out.
The Ukraine is weak!
The Ukraine is not weak!
So now Rimmer can blog his Risk campaign book *and* play at the same time.
Then again, he's too much of a smeg head to multitask like that.
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I agree that it's the classic war game, and I love Risk, but one that is sometimes more interesting is Axis and Allies. A bit dated, yes, but it has more complexity to it, in a way that works very well.
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Risk is great - but what about axis & allies? Supremacy?
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What's that awful sound?
The collective squeal of thousands of nerds in excitement of a Google/Risk mashup.
http://www.diplomacy-pcgame.com/ Of course, you have to pay for it.
People dont be fooled! This isn't a game. . .
.for world domination!!
It's Google's simulation
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ARGHHH!!!! Run for the Hills!!
OK Captain Obvious, where's your version? What else do you have in the cooker? Nuttin' honey? I thought so.
...everybody knows New Zealand isn't on the real map.
politely (as they usually do) asks this guy to pull it off for using copyrighted stuff. I believe the maps Google provide are copyrighted. There is a copyright notice down there but I have not read the Terms of Use.
Using Google Maps is totally gratuitous here. Zooming in to get more detailed terrain actually inhibits gameplay rather than enhances it. A really good free, online, multiplayer game of this sort is Conqueror! - which is not Risk, but takes some of the ideas of Risk and Axis & Allies and uses them in the context of Medieval Europe.
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I would love to see this done with Supremacy. That game is the bomb (pun intended).
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around these parts we prefer to call them WLAN-enabled independence helpers :)
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It doesn't support my favourite Web browser, so I guess if I want to play it I will have to wait until they (Google Maps and everyone else who uses AJAX) fix their website.
On the contrary, making a Risk clone has been obvious ever since the Google Maps API came out.
Actually i was more expecting these features in Civilization IV
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but also for CNN international...When they put map during their "prime time news", it's better to be accurate...
Dried turd? We had to produce fresh ones, right then, or we couldn't play.
Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
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Is this even playable?
While it's obviously way early in development, I think it needs to be fleshed out with an econometric AI (something like the one that runs Sim City), time controls (game time and real time) on making moves, and the ability to zoom in (Google Earth style, of course) to a fictional society based on the data from the econometric model. Here is yet another field for Google to sashay into and dominate, providing a hosting environment for subscriber-based private/public games.
I can see a modern civil war game (called "Red State, Blue State" or maybe just "Red and Blue") becoming very popular every four years.
It starts with a national election, with each side cranking up the polarization and emotional temperature, and moves into the middle game by one side or the other (doesn't matter which) winning effective control of government (legislature + executive branches) and immediately imposing a mess o' laws+policies that are as objectionable as possible to the other side (the "thumb in the eye" school of politics). From there we move into the end game, initiated by riots and armed insurrection (Paris-style), possibly some assassinations, and wind up with a military-style game not unlike RISK (the Civil War edition).
Of course, that would take us back to the age-old argument as to whether games cause/reinforce bad behavior, or whether they are a harmless outlet to blow off steam. The people raising a fuss about it would be the Republican and Democrat national parties, because it would infringe upon their intellectual property. But as they have not filed either copyrights or patents on the strategies and dirty tricks employed, I think it's in the public domain.
Let's hope it won't give bad ideas to the (not always so clever) people ruling the world today.
Someone should do a Ph. D. thesis on the massive number of GPA points frittered away playing Risk on college campuses... I suspect I lost a 100 or more.
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That's a war game if you play in a certain way - and also has a board game version.
Has anybody tried that out?
I have heard of unauthorized Risk-type games before, and they never last long. I don't expect this one to last long either, especially now that it has received so much exposure, and is using the name "Risk". Even the maps are the same.
The fact that he is using Google maps to implement it may add another wrinkle. This should be interesting.
Newman: I'm not beaten yet. I still have armies in the Ukraine.
Kramer: Ha ha, the Ukraine. Do you know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck. A road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine.
Ukrainian: I come from Ukraine. You not say Ukraine weak.
Kramer: Yeah, well we're playing a game here, pal.
Ukrainian: Ukraine is game to you?! Howbout I take your little board and smash it!!
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"Lack of technical competence coupled with the arrogance of power, as usual, leads to no good end."
Lux from Sillysoft has tons of user-made maps based on satellite images. And not just the "standard" Risk world map, but many others, too. It's a generalization of Risk-type game play, allowing just about any kind of map.
Of all of the Risk clones around, Lux probably draws the most tweakers and programmers. Users make maps, AIs, and random-map generators. Players rate them. Ranked online play, too, just in case you had a social life you needed to get rid of.
Search the Slashdot discussion about the "Carmen Sandiego" Google Maps game -- somebody else mentioned implementing Risk in that thread. Me and the guy who actually implemented the idea aren't the only ones who've thought of it.
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Can't wait for fellow coders to start nit picking the guy's code "this totally doesn't take into account Continental Drift! It's a bug just WAITING to happen"
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A game that gets through my firewall! Finally...W00t!
I'm already addicted to online Risk. Here's my site of choice: http://www.gamesbyemail.com.
What about the other Civilization board, by Hartland Trefoil (published in the US by Avalon Hill)?
...the episode of South Park where God invents the PSP to find a human to command his armies against the army of hell. America's Army 2.0 anyone?
Many board games that were put on the web have been shut down due to copyright infringements...A cool use of google maps, but it won't last long, me thinks.
Esta es una firma en Espanol.
Haha.
Not to take away from Google's limelight, here's an example of someone using Yahoo's map API to look like a pirate map and radar screen. While not as elaborate as a RISK game, it's still cool.
yahoo pirate/radar map
I'd suggest, for those of you who enjoy boardgames, that you check out the BoardGameGeek site. There's a lot of games out there to enjoy, and that site has more information than you probably want about boardgames.
When I was a teenager we played risk....and then graduated to Risk with Nukes! The game is called Supremacy, basically risk style with Nukes, navies, ect...
The great thing about Supremacy was that you could play it with simple rules, or you could load it down with all sorts of upgradable options.
The bad thing was that the game almost always ended up in Nuclear Armegeddon....
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truely something that can take your life over
So does that mean he doesn't need to STFU if he's not in Soviet Russia?
I prefer to control both Africa and South America. The #1 advantage of this strategy is that if you lose one or the other continents, you still have some armies coming in. And you are equal in strength to North America and Europe, and can lash out at both as well as knock out an aspiring soul trying to control Asia. South America + Africa + Middle East give you 4 countries to defend as the rest are all "interior" and don't need extra reinforcements.
That also gives you the strength to battle over North America if you want to go in that direction, or give you options of going into Europe as well. And you can usually get an Asian country if you just need a card.
Of course it depends on how the cards are dealt out in the beginning and what your starting position is. One time I acutally succeeded in doing Asian domination first, but that is a very difficult strategy and usually gets a big bullseye painted on you.
Does anybody still play that?
...Wow! Imagine that they are surounded...
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