Prompt's TechBlog
Risky business
10 November 2005
Posted by Sean McManus
If you're a fan of strategy games, you'll be pleased to know that there's an online version of Risk in development. It's built using Google Maps. So far you have to huddle around a computer and play other people in the same room. If it acquires artificially intelligent players and multiplayer capabilities, it'll be a strong game. That said, it's for hardcore strategists only: As I remember it, it takes longer to play the average game than it's likely to take for it to be coded.
# posted by Sean McManus at 9:34 AM 
Comments:
I vaguely remember that whoever colonised Australasia always won the game. Mind you, I haven't played since I was about 10. I did however work with a guy called Scott once who was a member of a Risk club, so there's definitely an army of geeks out there eager to march there virtual plastic shapes across a Google globe...
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