My entry for this year's contest..  Hope others have fun playing it.  I keep playing it while at work when I get free time. 

http://www.nullterm.com/java/fkconflict/

A global conquest game.  Select territories, move armies, attack rivals.  Winner is the one who ends up controlling the entire world.

Instructions

Select Territories

    * Each of the three players are given a chance to select one territory at a time.
    * After selecting a territory, the next player is given a chance.
    * This repeats until all territories are taken.

Movement Rounds

    * Each territory is given a turn in random order.
    * The view will zoom to that territory and highlight it in red.
    * At the start of a turn, a territory recieves one new army.
    * Click on an adjacent terrotory to send half of the armies in that direction.
    * Clicking on a friendly territory will move the armies to that territory.
    * Clicking on an enemy territory will attack to occupy that territory.
    * Clicking on the territory itself will skip a turn.

Victory

    * Victory is achieved when one players occupies all territories on the map.

Java4K.com page...
http://www.java4k.com/index.php?action=games&method=view&gid=193

Great game! Really kept me busy much longer than I expected. I didnt just play it for a while and exit like most games (no offense to anybody lol) but i actually played it till i lost!!!

It was really fun and all but it got a bit frustrating when the green team (had the most land) would get millions of turns in a row and I would get like 1 or 2 turns (we had nearly the same ammount of land)..

but once again, great game and good job!

GRRRR I always get screwed by that green getting 50000000 turns in a row and then i get that 1 turn !! Addicting game but sure does get my blood boiling

Whee, fun! Are the starting army sizes fixed per country? Starting with a lot of troops seems like a great way of winning. =)

Without suggestion no. 4.... multi-player support!

Glad to see people are enjoying it.  That's enough to make it worth the effort. 

As far replay factor, maybe I'm biased but I play it once or twice a day, and I've had it kicking around for about a month now.


Here's a tip, try taking control of the "tip" areas like S. America, S. Africa, Australia, or somewhere in the north.  If you can build a solid area with fewer battle lines, then your territories in the rear can supply the front line countries with armies.  Think of it as a logistical problem, if you have more countries supplying more armies to fight fewer battles then you'll have an easier time.

Starting armies - Each country is given a random number of armies when the country is chosen.

Combat probabilities - No, they aren't at all affected by which border it's being fought along.

Highlighting selectable and Sound - I love the suggestions, but am outta bytes to squeeze out.  I might play with compression/optimization options, but most likely I'll stick with what I got.

Colors - I started out with random colors, but they've kinna grown on me. 

How can you improve on Math.random? 

I spent more bytes on the movement AI, rather than selection AI.  Selection AI would probably be my #1 if I had more room to play with.

WOOOT hahah finally won this game is seriously addicting, i forgot to turn in my senior project logs because of this thing

although i would love a more grand "You won!" but who can complain:D

I guessed as much, that would be why there is occasionally a noticeable pause before the AI picks the final territory ;-)

This would make a fantastic battlefield for an AI competition!

Deep Thought here I come 

I'd be up for that!

I'm assuming that each territory is supposed to get one and only one turn per round?

If this is true, then you have a bug. I watched one of the territories (Western Russia) attack one of my territories (Southern Europe) and then attack another territory (Central Russia) in the course of a single turn. Also in the same round, I'm pretty sure that one of my territories (Tanzania) never got its turn to attack (Madagascar).

I've been suspecting the existence of this bug for a while, but this is the first time I've been 100% sure.

Hahhaha, that made my day.  Glad to hear that. 



Re: the bug, I'll look into it.  It might be a compression/obfiscator issue.  Unlikely that's the issue, but I already had one issue with one build having the delays between turns messed up.