Upvoted; I think this was worth making, and more people should do more things like this.
Notes:
The Resource Selection is effectively another part of the select-the-difficulty-level component, but is implicitly treated as part of the regular game. I think this could be signposted better.
I suspect the game would be more engaging—and feel longer, and feel more like a game—if it were more serialized and less parallelized. Instead of one “which of these do we fund?” choice, you could present us with a chain of “do we fund this? how about this? how about this?” choices; instead of one nine-option choice of overall strategy, you could have a three-option choice of Big Picture Strategy followed by another three-option choice of And What Would That Actually Look Like Strategy.
You say we’re free to steal the idea but I can’t find an open-source license in the repo. (There is a “License and Attribution” section in the AI-generated README, but it contains neither licenses nor attributions.)
Thanks for the response. I’ve improved the signposting a little, and I’ve added an MIT open source license to the file.
I agree with the second recommendation, too. I was thinking of a more serialised alternative version, which actually tracked your choices month-by-month through an AI race scenario, like this FT browser game https://ig.ft.com/football-game/.
I might try that when I have more free time, but I’d love for someone to take the idea and make something like that!
Upvoted; I think this was worth making, and more people should do more things like this.
Notes:
The Resource Selection is effectively another part of the select-the-difficulty-level component, but is implicitly treated as part of the regular game. I think this could be signposted better.
I suspect the game would be more engaging—and feel longer, and feel more like a game—if it were more serialized and less parallelized. Instead of one “which of these do we fund?” choice, you could present us with a chain of “do we fund this? how about this? how about this?” choices; instead of one nine-option choice of overall strategy, you could have a three-option choice of Big Picture Strategy followed by another three-option choice of And What Would That Actually Look Like Strategy.
You say we’re free to steal the idea but I can’t find an open-source license in the repo. (There is a “License and Attribution” section in the AI-generated README, but it contains neither licenses nor attributions.)
Thanks for the response. I’ve improved the signposting a little, and I’ve added an MIT open source license to the file.
I agree with the second recommendation, too. I was thinking of a more serialised alternative version, which actually tracked your choices month-by-month through an AI race scenario, like this FT browser game https://ig.ft.com/football-game/.
I might try that when I have more free time, but I’d love for someone to take the idea and make something like that!