NAME

Games::Risk - classical 'risk' board game

SYNOPSIS

use Games::Risk;
Games::Risk->spawn;
POE::Kernel->run;
exit;

DESCRIPTION

Risk is a strategic turn-based board game. Players control armies, with which they attempt to capture territories from other players. The goal of the game is to control all the territories (conquer the world) through the elimination of the other players. Using area movement, Risk ignores realistic limitations, such as the vast size of the world, and the logistics of long campaigns.

This module implements a graphical interface for this game.

PUBLIC METHODS

my $id = Games::Risk->spawn( \%params )

This method will create a POE session responsible for a classical risk game. It will return the poe id of the session newly created.

You can tune the session by passing some arguments as a hash reference. Currently, no params can be tuned.

TODO

This is a work in progress. While there are steady improvements, here's a rough list (with no order implied whatsoever) of what you can expect in the future for Games::Risk:

• screen to customize the new game to be played

• config save / restore

• saving / loading game

• network play

• maps theming

• i18n

• better ais

• country cards

• continents bonus, maybe localized?

• statistics

• prettier map coloring

• missions

• remove all the FIXMEs in the code :-)

• other...

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-games-risk at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Games-Risk. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SEE ALSO

You can find more information on the classical risk game on wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_game.

You might also want to check jRisk, a java-based implementation of Risk, which inspired me quite a lot.

You can also look for information on this module at:

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/Games-Risk

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Games-Risk

• Open bugs

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Games-Risk

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I definitely recommend you to buy a risk board game and play with friends, you'll have an exciting time!

Some ideas & artwork taken from project jrisk, available at http://risk.sourceforge.net/. Others (ideas & artwork once again) taken from teg, available at http://teg.sourceforge.net/

AUTHOR

Jerome Quelin, <jquelin@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2008 Jerome Quelin, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU GPLv3+.