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Back in the day, my friends and I would hot-seat Battle Isle and Oil Imperium for days. Now we're scattered across the globe, so I built this: a turn-based, asynchronous multiplayer web game where you can play a turn during a coffee break and pick it up whenever.
Why Build This?
There's already Advance Wars by Web, but I wanted to experiment with some extras:
- Height levels that affect vision, movement, and line-of-sight
- Weather system with rain that reduces vision and movement
- Day/night cycle with reduced vision at night and atmospheric lighting
- In-game chat to coordinate with allies or taunt enemies
- Stats tracking with win rates, ELO ratings, and match history
- Different game modes – Domination, Capture HQ, Deathmatch to keep you busy, more in planning (capture points, escort VIPs, etc.)
- Open matches & ratings Match yourself with randmom people to measure your skills
- Full map editor – Build your own levels and game setup to make it your personal sandbox
- Mobile support – - in a basic way
What We Want to Add
- Destruction of towns and bridges – Blow up key infrastructure to cut off enemy supply lines
- Research special units – Unlock powerful units through a tech tree
- Dig in – Entrench your units for higher defense stats
- Building barricades – Construct defensive fortifications on the battlefield
- Campaigns – Carry over progress to your next match
- Monthly tournaments – See how far you can take it
What Other Games Do You Want?
If there's interest, I'm planning more turn-based games in the same low-stress style:
- Oil Imperium inspired – Build an oil empire, survey, drill, sabotage rivals, trade on the market
- Soccer Manager inspired – Simple 90s-style football management where you compete in a league
- Ports of Call/Port Royal inspired – Build a shipping empire, move goods, deal with random events
Free & Gauging Interest
This is completely free. I'm seeing if people are interested in these nostalgic, low-commitment multiplayer games. If there's enough interest, I would start moving these to Steam, though i do like the email and ease of access of a web game.
Got feedback, feature ideas, or just want to say hi? I'd love to hear from you.