How to make a strategy game like Risk?

JCubas02

Hello, after playing many hours of HOI IV, I have had a urge to make a WW2 strategy game for scratch. Obviously It would be very difficult to remake HOI IV game play in scratch so I have decided to do a risk turn based style instead. However I had trouble trying to figure out how to code the territory and units. I would like to know how to code a system that keeps track of territory and how many units there are on each territory. Even if you don't know an answer for me, I would appreciate it if you would point me in the right direction!

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JCubas02 wrote:
Hello, after playing many hours of HOI IV, I have had a urge to make a WW2 strategy game for scratch. Obviously It would be very difficult to remake HOI IV game play in scratch so I have decided to do a risk turn based style instead. However I had trouble trying to figure out how to code the territory and units. I would like to know how to code a system that keeps track of territory and how many units there are on each territory. Even if you don't know an answer for me, I would appreciate it if you would point me in the right direction!

Of course there are many ways to do this but one way would be to have a grid of ‘Observers’ basically that count how many units are touching them.
If you were to make a custom block for it I would think it would be kinda fast.
Or you could use mathematics and store the location of all the units in a list then testing each one to see if it's in territories but this could get exponentially slower as more troops are added so I am not sure this would be the best way

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JCubas02

Thanks for the advice, I'll try out your strategy and see how it plays out!

jji10

The Scratch collaboration @RiskGames creates that type of game - and quite well, if I do say so myself. Maybe you can play their games, look at the code a bit and get some inspiration?

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Macky527

I am trying to make a strategy game like Eu4. I have Your text to link here… that I wanna use.

Good luck!

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Why Cant i post pictures?!?

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Macky527 wrote:
Why Cant i post pictures?!?

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firepikmin

I was wondering this too! Thanks!

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