You should have mentioned that it was a web browser game, I nearly completely ignored it because of the lack of details.

That said, I couldn't really figure out how to play it. I'm not really into games that I have to do a bunch of reading for, since I'm illiterate.

My only critique at the moment is that the angular menu was difficult to read, which probably impacted my lack of interest in trying to figure it out. Even with my gigantic monitor (like 23" or something) the text on the menu was hard to read. If it were flat I may have expended more effort in playing it.

Edit: To be more constructive, as I see it looks a lot more legible in your screenshot, this is what it looked like on my end with the latest version of Firefox under Windows 7:

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I really enjoyed your game!
What I didn't figure out at first was how to choose your number of armies you want to move. I always clicked onto the armies, but it took some time until I figured out I had to click next to them.
Also, at the end, it says "bellow", in "Click the button bellow to start a new game."
Often, I moved armies by accident. For example, I click on one field where I have some armies, then I click on another field where I also have some armies (to look at which regions I could reach), only to discover that I moved all armies from one field to the other. Argh!
Just played it a second time, and this time, I won. Again, great game.

OMG Jakub Wasilewski! How you doing? Good to see ya!

OK, playing the game now...

Welcome back, Jakub!

Amber Wins! (That's me) on my 2nd attempt.
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Amazing what you can do with HTML 5 and CSS these days. Just how much of a giant hack is it to program in html?

Hi there, Jakub, welcome back. Nice game, reminds me of an old addictive flash game called Dice Wars which was inspired by Risk! It looks polished, though it wasn't very responsive in my browser but I think that's a problem on my side with JS. Also the menu fonts weren't crispy but with some rough edges. Anyway, it's challenging.

Damn the game is epic. But I still don't get what does the fire temple do

"Always take one less casualty in an attack." Would do as an explanation. Thanks for the clarification btw.

An really good job. Very well done.

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One win for me! On easy... With 2 AI players...

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Whoo, second win. Still easy, but this time 3 AIs!

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Jakub, your game might not be as technically difficult, but at least it's actually fun. I think you have a good chance. The only other one I tried was the rally one. It was an interesting tech. demo, but not very fun at all. It was also choppy, and I have a decent rig...

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I find the only real strategy to this game is picking a map with few flanks. In this last case, one of them (lavender perhaps?) started in the lower right corner. I started in the right middle just above. I accepted this map as a bit of a challenge since it wasn't an ideal configuration, but the AI got greedy and after taking those 2 extra temples moved its forces to the top middle temple. I retreated initially, but after they passed me by I managed to move in and take its under manned temples without much trouble. It was smooth sailing from there. I just kept my forces strong on my fronts, and tried to match any forces that looked threatening to my position.

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There's nothing particularly wrong with the 12 move mechanic, but I think having the option to play to the death (during configuration) would be a nice alternative game mode. Games are supposed to be fun, and as fun as it is to win, it would feel even better to drag it out as long as possible and literally conquer the entire board (this might also make for some crushing losses).

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Adding networking support would be great too. This is a fun game, but the AI has its limitations (just working my way through the blog post now to try to understand the work you put in). Playing against human players is the obvious solution to the problem: the AI was written for you by a much smarter force. That said, I do not often find myself in a room with people interested in playing. I envision #allegro having quite some fun with this linking up with each other and going head to head to head to head. There are certainly challenges involved in turning this into a networked game (and you'd presumably have to rewrite parts to make it server-side), but I can see it being lots of fun.

On second thought, I'm not sure the game really scales to human players. It seems like a very "hand you were dealt" kind of game, which would get old pretty fast for the players in the worst positions. Balancing that out would be tough.

Congratulations on a complete game, and on your standings! That's not too bad.

This is a great little strategy game.

Mark:

Glad you like it so much! You'll probably be happy that suggestions 1) and 3) from your list are already implemented . You can check them out here(the most up to date version is always on GitHub pages).

There are a few improvements (mostly AI and graphics-related) I want to do, and then I'm going to officially call this updated version 1.1. I might also change the fire temple a bit, as it's both pretty weak and hard to understand right now.

As for tablet gameplay: deskewing the view doesn't buy you that much (I've tried). I'm afraid I'd have to rethink the whole UI for <6-inch screens, with a fullscreen map and foldable/pop-up menus. Not sure if I'll find the time to do that.

Oh, and major props on getting the whole map in 12! Which difficulty was this on?

At least put a limit on the number of soldiers that can occupy any one territory. That will get rid of that little "bug" of soldiers falling off of the screen.

I only played one unlimited game, but it was disappointing. One of the AIs was quickly overpowering all others, and I was the helpless bugger in the corner.

You could tweak the AI to force itself into hopeless battle in a case like Mark's i.e., only one remaining opponent and surrounded by overwhelming forces? Hail Mary!