For those who love the game Risk, there is a simplified form of it called Dice. Actual dice take the place of your armies and sit on territory that you gain. You roll all the dice on a space to do battle with an adjoining space, whether defending or attacking.
While I’ve played a manual version of it, the best way to play Dice has been on the computer. There is a good single player version, called simply Dice, here. It is well done, but the real fun in a risk game is to piss-off compete against other people.
So I stumbled across kdice the other day, a multiplayer version that draws me in for a few games a day. It’s great, but does have a few flaws. They have a scoring system that fluctuates like mad, and you can only play 8 on 8 on a board a bit too small for that many players. It effectively makes the first 4 or so people who get eliminated based largely on bad luck. I have even seen a few games where people are eradicated befor ethey even get their first turn.
Hopefully it is in active development, and they fix these little glitches, and let us choose an amount of players or a board size. But it’s still plenty fun as it is now.
edit: No sooner than I post this article til there is an update in the game. They tweaked the point system so it has a larger base and doesn’t fluctuate as much. So now your 6 game winning streak won’t be wiped out with one bad game!
