Violent struggle, but cute.

June 16, 2008 9:51 PM

Weewar is a hex-map, turn-based wargame you can play in your browser. Or, if you don't want to play, there's an API so you can write your own weeWOPR AI to do it for you.
posted by pompomtom (12 comments total)

About to sign up... perhaps this can save me from kdice which I literally play in my dreams.
posted by nicwolff at 10:15 PM on June 16, 2008 [1 favorite]

HA HA I already have an account so I can't sign up! Have to recover my password...
posted by nicwolff at 10:17 PM on June 16, 2008

"Please upgrade your account to join games on user made maps."

For a monthly fee.

Now I know why I blew this off last time...

back to kdice!
posted by nicwolff at 10:22 PM on June 16, 2008

Thanks, looks interesting.

(if anyone else wants to try it out, I started a game called "metafilter")
posted by equalpants at 10:33 PM on June 16, 2008

Empire meets Web 2.0.

I'm actually working on a version of this genre but it's been tough sledding.
posted by tachikaze at 11:00 PM on June 16, 2008

"Please upgrade your account to join games on user made maps."

Not free?!!!!!!!

pass.
posted by The Light Fantastic at 11:14 PM on June 16, 2008

Yeah, seems there is a very limited set of what you can do without a pro account.

And fuck these sites that seem free, only to tell you after giving out your email that no, you have only signed up for some crippled mini-preview of the "pro" version. Fuck that.
posted by Meatbomb at 12:50 AM on June 17, 2008 [5 favorites]

You guys should try a real man's hex-based online wargame sometime.
posted by thanotopsis at 5:37 AM on June 17, 2008 [2 favorites]

That's totally a Heroscape ripoff. Or so I'm told.
posted by trueluk at 6:54 AM on June 17, 2008

My friend got me playing this, though I'm not liking it. Of course, that doesn't have anything to do with the game itself, which is sort of cute though glacial in pace, but because he and a friend played like 10 games before inviting me. You can imagine how well I'm doing.
posted by absalom at 7:04 AM on June 17, 2008

Weewar: Thanks for tricking me into not paying you to play a browser game it took a week to make after transcribing the rules of heroscape (as near as I can tell without paying someone). I look forward to your spam.

kdice: I always loved how mind-blowingly exciting risk was, but I hated all that strategy. Plus, I need the illusion of advancement/acievement and social interaction to enjoy computer games. I also have to give props to programmers here for hacking out the (to my knowledge) world's first turn based flash game whose playability is uncertain due to lag! I also look forward to your spam, illustrious brothers!

I'm not this sarcastic.
I'm not this sacastic.
posted by cmoj at 11:27 AM on June 17, 2008

Looks like an Advance Wars ripoff to me. They just switched from squares to hexes.
posted by hjo3 at 1:59 PM on June 17, 2008