casus-belli
The story of this project started in the fall of 2020, when my dad gave me the coolest birthday gift I've ever received: he made me my very own board game! The game involves strategy, diplomacy and battle, and I've played it a lot with friends and family. A couple friends of mine were particular fans of the game, so in the fall of 2021, we started developing a digital edition of it as a hobby project. Thus, Casus Belli was born.
We decided to build the digital edition as a full-fledged online multiplayer game. I wrote the server in Go, finding its native concurrency support suitable for the parallel nature of the game. My friends and I collaborated on the client, where we initially used the Unity game engine. But in the fall of 2023, the company behind Unity decided to upend the terms for developers using their game engine. I found Unity's practices here quite distasteful, and so we decided to switch the client over to the open-source Godot game engine.
Once I started working full-time in 2024, progress on the game stalled, as it was difficult to find energy for it in my spare time while I was programming all day at work. I still want to finish the game at some point though. The implementation of the server is basically finished, and work on the client is well on its way. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish the game some time in the next couple of years, and release it to the public.
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Code:
hermannm/casus-belli