All the popular ones? Those are the ones that fit what I said. So like: Minecraft, Fortnite, PubG, Hill Climb, Geometry Dash, etc.
Thanks for the comments. Yeah, I had already considered the mutliplayer-only aspect as problematic and thought of adding an AI months ago, but just haven't got round to it yet because AIs are pretty difficult (even dumb ones). I actually looked into reinforcement machine learning as a way of building a decent AI but it's very complex and difficult and basically requires using Python for everything, which I'm not that familiar with either. I'd love to get help from someone with AI building experience but I'm guessing those people don't tend to volunteer their time and it'd probably take a large salary to hire them :-)
I noticed that for some board games, simple Monte Carlo Tree Search is surprisingly powerful. Very shortly (and badly) summarized: just simulate a lot of randomly played games starting from the current position, and pick the move that led to the highest percentage of wins.
Depending on how the game logic is implemented (with clear model/view separation), programming such an AI might be doable, though it works best for finite games, and your game definitely looks more complex than the simple games I tried it for.
Also, doing such a brute force approach might take a lot of CPU power, so doing it server side may become expensive. Anyway, it's just an idea that you might find useful...
Yeah given the tree of possible moves with my game that would turn into a virtually infinite number of games very quickly. Some kind of directed A* search is probably needed, and that is gonna be tough. Either that or hand-craft some AI behaviours that make some sense, but probably aren't all that hard to beat. As I said, ideally I'd have some kind of reinforcement ML expertise on my team and the AI could be trained to make good moves through the whole reinforcement neural net magic. :-)
Rightly so. While you might be able to sneak something in on their offtopic boards, they are about board games, real physical board games, you can buy in a store.
Your game is not a board game. It is a computer game. They do not allow computer games on their platform, why should they want to talk about computer games, lest allow advertising for such.
And as I mentioned below, your competion is triplea. Axis & Allies with AI and available custom scenarious, including popular stuff like LotR and whatever you find in the community. I did not check out your game, but maybe your ruleset and units could even be adjusted to be a module in that open source game. So yeah, no one cares about your game, as it is not a popular existing board game. Or is it? Try finding a community for online computer board games maybe.
Do not trust random strangers on the internet (scnr).
I had a quick look at that site, and after a minute it was clear, that you could not host your game on there, even if you tried, because they only do real board games. If there forum has a promotion corner, it would have been a good idea, I admit that. And that is why I recommended to finda place where people talk about computer board games (and allow promotion ;-)
Not really. In the context of the internet, "board games" obviously includes electronic board games. Do they have to "look like" a physical board game, do they have to render some physical dice being thrown? That seems a bit limited. A "board game" in an online context pretty much means a turn-based strategy game IMHO. Which my game is.
Just because your game has a 2d map and is turn based multiplayer, it is not a board game. Is the civilisation series a board game?
You could tag it as board game on itch. Just like card games are tagged card, even though you have no real cards. But that is tagging and not real attributes of games. And depending on your game, the tag might even be wrong. Just look at the games that do have this tag.
Could your game mechanic be replicated in Tabletop Simulator? And that stuff can replicate the heavy board games like Twilight Imperium...
If so, I would be more inclined to believe your statement, that your game would be a board game. But your definition includes stuff like civ. Turn based strategy games are turn based strategy games and not board games. In the context of computer games you would tag turn based strategy . And yes, you would tag board, if you try to create the look and feel of a physical game. Imagine chess. That is a board game. But would you tag a computer chess game as board game? I do not think so.
(Oh, and electronic board game does not mean what you think it means. Google it ;-)
How do you mean? I don't code myself- I do the writing and creative stuff on our team.
Well yeah generating levels is fine, but the actual playing of the levels isn't really a single-player thing - I think there'd have to be an AI. Unless you can think of some variant game mode I could introduce where people could play single player. Capture all the hexes as fast as possible? I think that would be rather boring with no competition. :-)
Okay well I offered what I perceived as good advice and he proceeded to "lol" at me so I am understandably upset at him but you don't say anything about his rudeness and no I am not bullying him I even took time out of my busy schedule to offer some of my wisdom but he didn't even appreciate or thank me
Oh, you again. Taking stuff personal and over inflating things again.
You wrote a comment and a reply was lol and in your mind you construe an insult out of it, even painting yourself as a victim because you did not get the proper thanks, because you came down from heaven to share your wisdom. Try getting out of your shoes and think about what you would think about someone else doing what you did.
Maybe you got a lol, becauseyouhavenospacesinyourcommentandthatreadsfunny.
I am not messing with you. None of the other people's posts look like that. Seems there are nbsps that are not rendered (in Chrome and I tried Firefox as well). And not all the spaces are nbsps , so no clue at all where they came from. Or why the nbsp are not rendered as spaces.
(and do not lol people, you established, that you consider it an insult ;-) (ps, that was sarcasm, lol all you like)
You actually see this when accomplished professionals from other elsewhere in the entertainment world (novelists, movie makers, sports stars, etc) decide they're going to make a game. Doesn't matter that they may have been successful in other areas of life. Their game will not be a big hit. That's how tough the market is.
There are just too many games out there these days for most people to take notice of anything that isn't high end and ultra-polished. I've been making games for decades myself and agree with what you said. Back in 1998 it was enough just to *complete* a decent game. You would get players. Nowadays, even highly original games get neglected.
Yep, that's the right idea!
I was going to play your game earlier and give feedback but I had to leave, but now I'm back and I'll be giving it a shot soon :)
