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The Ninja Wars
The Ninja Wars
by Team Joust
It’s a game like Risk (except it’s better…and it has ninjas). You send troops around the map and try to take over the entire thing. Play against your friends or random people.
Judging Instructions
How to play.
- Use the latest version of Chrome (or FireFox)
- Create a game.
- Send the link of the game to your friends (up to 3 other people)
- The host can start the game at any time after one other person joins.
- When the game starts, each player is awarded 1 country. Player 1 is the color purple, Player 2 is green, Player 3 is blue, and Player 4 is red. Player 1 starts in the top left corner (on country A), Player 2 starts in the bottom right corner (on country R), Player 3 starts in the top right (on country H), Player 4 starts in the bottom left (on country M).
- Click the country you own, you can move troops to other countries be deploying troops (for example, if you are player 1, you would click Country A, enter the number of troops into the text box and then click the deploy button).
- The more countries you own the more troops you get. Troop counts are located in the bottom right corner of EACH country. If you are player 1, your troops will show up in the first square, player 2 troop numbers show up in the second square.
- The object of the game is to take over the entire map.
- Moving your troops into another person’s country will start a battle.
- Battles happen automatically and are weighted based on the number of troops you have and are going against.
- If you win the battle, then you get control over the country.
- Get all the countries and you win.
- Lose all your countries and you lose.
Who
How
node (duh), socket.io, ejs, jquery, express, modit, jqueryui
Votes
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brianarnjudge
therazorbladejudgeCould not figure out how to play the game. Happy to try again if you point me to instructions. The design would be more complete if the UX on the right side matched the look and feel of the map. Missing instructions.
Mallioch
contestantSorry about the missing instructions. Some have been added above. Does that help?
Yes, agree that the design on the right needs to match up. Appreciate any more comments you want to give!
- therazorbladejudge
Yes it does. I went back and tried again. I still could not fully understand the logic, and the ability to deploy. Can I just deploy as many as I want up tot he total or based on how many I have at that location? Real time updates didn’t always work, had to click to refresh. Updated my vote.
chrismatthieujudge3rd-Eden
contestantAfter reading the instructions I was still in a state of total wtfness, but I managed to play it for a bit.
But I felt a bit bored because I was missing a chat. And the design could use allot more ninjafu.
mtoymil
contestantRisk clone in mostly real time. Strategy involves having more ninjas (in the right places). Both games I played froze at some point. The game could use chat. I’d like to see names on regions or at least a legend on the side assigning names to colors.
This game has potential to require both quick calculations and quick fingers. As a starcraft player, I like that. It’s just not fully baked. I’ll be checking back on it for sure!
aaronheckmannjudgeCouldn’t figure out how to play.
- contestant
We’ve added some instructions. Terribly sorry about not having instructions up. Would love to hear comments if you find time to retest.
ryanmcgrath
judgeIt’s fun to play, albeit somewhat difficult to test given a lack of people. Managed to get some friends to jump in with me for a moment though.
I like the real-time aspect of it, applying it to a classic game style works incredibly well here. Design is alright, pretty complete from what I can tell.
- contestant
Thanks for the positive note. We had a blast writing it. We’re going to finish it up because it was just too much fun to create it.
wjgilmorejudgeLove Risk, this looks great, however each room I enter results in the message “3 players connected. Waiting for host to start the game”. Would love to assign points but can’t until I can test it.
- contestant
We ran out of time and launched with a bug on the home page that showed games that were in progress/abandoned :( If you still want to test it, create a new game and send a link to a friend to try it out with you. Sorry…but thanks for taking the time to try!
cloudheadjudgephillyqueso
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mtoymil
Seems functional, but the UI is really rough. There’s no instruction outside of the judging instructions page yet and the ninja counts are very very small, not to mention that it’s basically Risk.