This is a wrinkle on a successful board game strategy. You might even consider first making it as a board game (physical for 2 players) to work out the balancing and features.
What makes these kinds of games work or not is the balancing and subtleties of the rules. Risk works (to the extent that it does), because the rules have been tweaked over the decades (actually, the 1960s rules were actually more fun – but maybe that’s just because its what I learned originally).
I would recommend making sure you first nailed the game, so that interesting strategies emerged, and decent balance can be confirmed. Then you could work on creating an AI player.
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This is a wrinkle on a successful board game strategy. You might even consider first making it as a board game (physical for 2 players) to work out the balancing and features.
What makes these kinds of games work or not is the balancing and subtleties of the rules. Risk works (to the extent that it does), because the rules have been tweaked over the decades (actually, the 1960s rules were actually more fun – but maybe that’s just because its what I learned originally).
I would recommend making sure you first nailed the game, so that interesting strategies emerged, and decent balance can be confirmed. Then you could work on creating an AI player.
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