Mirrorisk

Remember playing Risk when you were a kid? What if you could recreate the feeling of excitement mixed with the frustration when the dice roll a bunch of 1s? Look no further — Mirrorisk is your (not) favorite board game, as a video game, playable right here in the browser. Except it's not exactly how you remember it.

Play the board game classic on a weirdly familiar yet uncomfortable map of the Mirrored Earth. West is East and East is West in this virtual cardboard rendition of the 1957's Risk. The rules have changed, too: the game ends the first time a player is eliminated, so be sure to protect the underdogs before you take the lead!

Mirrorisk is a submission to Gamedev.js 2021 Jam. The theme of the jam was mirror.

Changelog

• 1.0 — Final jam build submitted on April 26, 2021.
• 0.9 — Submitted an early version missing some copy and audio. 

Controls

• Select armies with the left mouse button.
• Issue orders with the right mouse button.
• Pan the camera with the left mouse button pressed.
• Rotate the camera with the right mouse button pressed.
• Zoom the camera with the mouse wheel.

Web Monetization

Subscribed users will see more variety in army models. Besides the infantry, you'll play as light cavalry and artillery.

Known Bugs

• Zooming scrolls the itch.io page.
  • Workaround: We recommend playing in fullscreen or at https://piesku.com/mirrorisk/play.
• Shadows don't work on Chrome on macOS.
  • Workaround: Please use Safari or Firefox.
• If you happen to click on another unit when ordering your army to move, the game may freeze.
• Workaround: Switch to another tab and back, and it should unfreeze without losing any progress.

Credits

• Army pawns by BroamChomsky, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.
• Textures from CC0Textures.com, licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal.
• Map by gappyfacets, licensed under CC 0.