> Curious what people think.

About what? The game itself is mildly interesting as some sort of blockchain mega-Risk variant, but without any sort of story about how you came up with the idea, or how you coded it, or a link to your source code, or etc etc etc this seems primarily meaningless/irrelevant here at Hacker News. I see your comment asking us to propose questions that you answer — but where are your own stories, that aren't just replies to the prompts you want us to present you with?

> You agree not to[:] reverse engineer or attempt to extract protected service logic except where the law clearly permits it

Talk about failing to understand your target audience.

Weird clone of OpenFront but with no UI .. ? Custom game doesn't work, tons of errors, can't even see where I am, or understand what is going on.

Doesn't seem like you played your own game before submitting it.

• anhner

  yesterday at 6:20 PM

  why play when you can vibecode?

One of the main challenges has been making the map simulation work for hundreds of simultaneous players without the server becoming a bottleneck.

Most interactions are event-driven and the map state updates incrementally, which keeps things manageable even when many borders are shifting at once.

I've successfully tested this with 4096^2 maps and 1024 players and in those tests framerates were stable at 144 FPS, with the server ticking steadily at the standard 10 TPS.

It is built on Rust and Bevy. I'm happy to answer any questions.

• reitzensteinm

  yesterday at 4:54 AM

  How did you test with 1024 players - were they real? Often synthetic loads are very different to those caused by real players.

I don't know, looks like OpenFront in a RetroGUI? Based on the left bottom UI element an older version, otherwise remarkably close

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ckqSFbwplvY

Very buggy, so many it's not even worth reporting, since you can't be bothered to test.

The sliders don't respond well, like the server is authoritative but the client isn't properly predicting where the slider will be.

I'm playing on a 144Hz monitor, but the game is struggling to hit over 80 FPS.

I keep getting errors which display in the bottom right of the screen, such as "tick" (tick failed, ZeroInvestment) errors and WebSocket receive errors.

I started a custom game and "things" are just happening super quickly. All I can seemingly do is right click some stuff and do some actions.

There is almost no feedback on the few actions you can do. Nothing much to observe. I don't even know where "I" am on the map.

Sorry but this isn't a game yet. There's no compelling core gameplay loop, too little explanation, and wayyyy too many bugs.

Be honest: is this just an OpenFront clone?

https://openfront.io/

It's fine if it's just a fan-clone, but you really need to be explicit about where the idea (and code) came from if that's what you've done.

• Jyaif

  yesterday at 9:51 AM

  Judging by the error messages, it looks like it's a bevy+wasm project. So it's not a simple fork of OpenFront.

I tried a custom game. Received constant errors in the bottom right. Couldn't work out where/who I was. I could right-click and offer alliances to factions, but there was no response at any point. Couldn't work out how to do anything. (Firefox/macOS)

RIP

Can't enter a game, kicks me out of queue.

Doesn't seem to do anything on custom game.

After seeing this I just think it'd be awesome if there's like...

a Civ 7...

where you can play with 100 people, in a way that's playable, somehow.

Yea, not really thought out but if anyone could make it awesome, it'd be them and I'd love to beta/alpha test it.

If any Civ 7 dev is reading this, my email is in my profile.

(yea I know, a crazy long shot, lol :') I'm doing it for the hype)

• TobTobXX

  yesterday at 1:37 PM

  There was Golden Age of Civilisations (or sth) a while ago. It ran Freeciv (FOSS Civ 2/3 clone) and made each turn take 4 hours and added advanced queuing tooling.

  Was quite fun, maybe it still exists, haven't checked.

• pbmonster

  yesterday at 10:17 AM

  But why? What would change compared to 12 players on a huge map? Do you just want to conquer a large number of your neighbors and then still get to compete against other mega-empires?

  When playing civ on 12 player maps, I still mostly interact only with the 3-4 that I directly compete with at any given time. I imagine that wouldn't really change with 100 people.

I clicked "Play Game" and got a message about a queue.

Maybe that experience can be improved.

• smcin

  yesterday at 5:21 AM

  won't even load for me now. (Edit: it loads now)

Not to be overly dismissive, but this feels like a plastic satire of a war game. Additonally, most civvy wargames tend to be based on the Avalon Hill Civilization boardgame from back in the day (which also influenced Sid Meier's Civilization), which imo peaked with Civ 4 (Civ 7 and Humankind I think is based on "History of the World").

I'd recommend reading some US Navy [0][1][2], Marines [3], and NATO [4] literature on how to better create tactical and grand strategy war games.

Lots of wargaming and intel analyst vets ended up in the boardgame publishing world.

[0] - https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1001766.pdf

[1] - https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/publi...

[2] - https://www.cna.org/reports/2004/Transforming-Naval-Wargamin...

[3] - https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/Forging%20Wargamers_web.pd...

[4] - https://paxsims.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/nat...

• crotobloste

  yesterday at 3:07 PM

  Awesome resources, thank you for linking them!

  • alephnerd

    today at 4:54 AM

    > thank you for linking them

    Appreciate it. I've been getting trolled and attempted doxxed for providing links on HN recently.

    Those nation state actors failed but worst case, I and my SO still practice our trigger discipline.

    • tolerance

      today at 5:32 AM

      Start a mailing list or something.

Hmm, it does not seem to work on Edge browser on my Linux OS, but it loaded fine in Chrome in the same OS.

I don't like the mixel art used

[flagged]