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Grand Strategy: web-based Risk variant

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:26 am
by bryanbr
A new online Risk variant that was inspired by CC is available here:

http://denizengames.com/grandstrategy/login.faces

Many of the rules and game types from CC are available.

Re: Grand Strategy: web-based Risk variant

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:22 am
by bryanbr
bryanbr wrote:A new online Risk variant that was inspired by CC is available here:

http://denizengames.com/grandstrategy/login.faces

Many of the rules and game types from CC are available.


Oh yeah, it supports 8 player and 2 player games if you want to do one on one games.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:28 am
by Utafar
the site literally launched yesterday or so Im told

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:31 am
by reverend_kyle
anyone wanna be my doubles partner in game 3 there?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:36 am
by AK_iceman
i just signed up to check it out.
man am i glad i have CC. :D :D

Re: Grand Strategy: web-based Risk variant

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:46 am
by bryanbr
bryanbr wrote:A new online Risk variant that was inspired by CC is available here:

http://denizengames.com/grandstrategy/login.faces

Many of the rules and game types from CC are available.


I forgot to mention that the game can import CC maps directly from the CC XML file. So if you are a CC map maker, just send me PM with directions to your map I will import it.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:05 pm
by Machiavelli
I tried to sign up, but my e-mail hasnt recieved the confermation code yet :?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:09 pm
by AK_iceman
look in your junk mail, thats where it sent mine.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:09 pm
by HighBorn
mine too

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:55 pm
by reverend_kyle
how do you element your opponents?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:58 pm
by AK_iceman
reverend_kyle wrote:how do you element your opponents?


i assume you mean eliminate, and isnt it just another risk site? its pretty much the same as all the other risk sites right?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:59 pm
by reverend_kyle
I actually beleive that was a typo on the first page...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:01 pm
by AK_iceman
oh, didnt know where you were getting that from. that should be fixed tho.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:02 pm
by reverend_kyle
I prefer the online risk variants that allow you to place your armies... sort of like the real game more... but I play on 3 different ones..

hint click on online risk variants to find my favorite one..

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:06 pm
by HighBorn
reverend_kyle wrote:I prefer the online risk variants that allow you to place your armies... sort of like the real game more... but I play on 3 different ones..

hint click on online risk variants to find my favorite one..


I swear kyle thats all you ever talk about is placeing armys...lmao

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:08 pm
by AK_iceman
HighBorn wrote:
reverend_kyle wrote:I prefer the online risk variants that allow you to place your armies... sort of like the real game more... but I play on 3 different ones..

hint click on online risk variants to find my favorite one..


I swear kyle thats all you ever talk about is placeing armys...lmao

and Landgrab...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:18 pm
by reverend_kyle
HighBorn wrote:
reverend_kyle wrote:I prefer the online risk variants that allow you to place your armies... sort of like the real game more... but I play on 3 different ones..

hint click on online risk variants to find my favorite one..


I swear kyle thats all you ever talk about is placeing armys...lmao


I'm sending hints to lack...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:32 pm
by UCAbears
ahhh haha rotflmao...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:25 pm
by bryanbr
reverend_kyle wrote:I prefer the online risk variants that allow you to place your armies... sort of like the real game more... but I play on 3 different ones..

hint click on online risk variants to find my favorite one..


Landgrad is interesting in the amount of options available.

There is something to be said for the aesthetics of a site. Not only just how it looks but the functional aesthetics as well. And sadly Landgrab is such an awful looking site that I just couldn't play there.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:35 pm
by reverend_kyle
bryanbr wrote:
reverend_kyle wrote:I prefer the online risk variants that allow you to place your armies... sort of like the real game more... but I play on 3 different ones..

hint click on online risk variants to find my favorite one..


Landgrad is interesting in the amount of options available.

There is something to be said for the aesthetics of a site. Not only just how it looks but the functional aesthetics as well. And sadly Landgrab is such an awful looking site that I just couldn't play there.



Its sad that how a site looks is more important than how it functions these days..

PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:46 pm
by bryanbr
reverend_kyle wrote:
bryanbr wrote:
reverend_kyle wrote:I prefer the online risk variants that allow you to place your armies... sort of like the real game more... but I play on 3 different ones..

hint click on online risk variants to find my favorite one..


Landgrad is interesting in the amount of options available.

There is something to be said for the aesthetics of a site. Not only just how it looks but the functional aesthetics as well. And sadly Landgrab is such an awful looking site that I just couldn't play there.



Its sad that how a site looks is more important than how it functions these days..


With Landgrab, its not just how it looks but how it functions. I've tried creating a game and for whatever reason it doesn't work. The interface isn't really intuitive or user friendly. The create game page needs to be structured and organized not just one huge scrolling experience.

There is something to be said when playing a game for "immersive experience". I know these are only silly web games but how it looks still matters in how enjoyable it is.

I have put a new build up of Grand Strategy. I have been working on performance and the game really smokes now. Its a faster gaming experience than playing on CC.

http://denizengames.com/grandstrategy/login.faces

PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:12 am
by Phx99
I'm in...yay! Another addiction for me!

Phx99

PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:57 am
by gavin_sidhu
reverend_kyle wrote:I prefer the online risk variants that allow you to place your armies... sort of like the real game more... but I play on 3 different ones..

hint click on online risk variants to find my favorite one..


I had an account with them and im pretty sure i deadbeated in one of your games (i remember some reverand i versed) but i prefer conquer club.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:53 am
by bryanbr
So do I. Grand Strategy is too much of a Beta right now to even compete with the features and stability of CC.

However, once GS has a good variety of maps, more users and I work out the bugs, I think it will meet or exceed with CC is doing, unless of course CC improves itself.

Grand Strategy is from the ground up an Ajax application. This allows me to do some really cool things. In CC you are required to move from page to page to do anything, and quite honestly moving from page to page in CC pretty much sucks most of the time, for example you can't send a message during a game in CC without leaving the game screen.

And once I have drag and drop attacks working in GS, it will then totally dominate the web-based Risk world!


gavin_sidhu wrote:
reverend_kyle wrote:I prefer the online risk variants that allow you to place your armies... sort of like the real game more... but I play on 3 different ones..

hint click on online risk variants to find my favorite one..


I had an account with them and im pretty sure i deadbeated in one of your games (i remember some reverand i versed) but i prefer conquer club.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:07 am
by lackattack
I have good relations with the guys from W@W and LandGrab. We have a lot of respect each other's work and appreciate the friendly rivalry between our websites. We'd never stoop down to the level of directly targeting each other's userbase.

If that's they way you do things, bryanbr, so be it. I won't censor your posts promoting your game site here.

But mark my words - CC will always be two steps ahead of GS.