{"slug": "i-built-a-browser-based-multiplayer-fantasy-game-with-realtime-chat-ai-parties", "title": "I built a browser-based multiplayer fantasy game with realtime chat, AI parties, tank duels, tower-smashing monsters, and island strategy", "summary": "A developer has built hkd_might_and_magic, an experimental browser-based multiplayer fantasy game that combines party-based combat with several connected modes, including 8-versus-8 battles, artillery-style tank duels, cooperative tower destruction, and an island-building strategy mode. Each session joins as a numbered player who can watch others, chat in realtime, issue challenges, and share resources, alongside five strategy-driven AI agents on the world map. The developer is seeking playtest feedback on multiplayer clarity, mobile controls, balance, and which mode is most fun.", "body_md": "I’ve been building hkd_might_and_magic, an experimental browser game combining party-based fantasy combat with several connected multiplayer modes.\n\nEach new browser session joins as a numbered player. Players can watch Player #1’s actions, communicate through realtime realm and party chat, issue challenges, share resources, and view everyone—including five strategy-driven AI agents—on the world map.\n\nCurrent modes include:\n\n• Animated 8-versus-8 fantasy combat\n\n• Classic artillery-style tank duels\n\n• Cooperative wolf-and-dinosaur tower destruction\n\n• Skyforge Clash fighting\n\n• Skyforge Settlers, an original island-building and resource-trading strategy mode\n\n• Persistent progression from Terra toward Skyforge space territory\n\nIt supports desktop and mobile portrait/landscape layouts.\n\nI built it, and I’d genuinely appreciate playtest feedback—especially on multiplayer clarity, mobile controls, balance, and which mode is the most fun.\n\nPlay here:", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-browser-based-multiplayer-fantasy-game-with-realtime-chat-ai-parties", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/michael_yang_a9925b515901/i-built-a-browser-based-multiplayer-fantasy-game-with-realtime-chat-ai-parties-tank-duels-2j93", "published_at": "2026-09-11 14:32:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-11 14:45:17.772724+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-products"], "entities": ["hkd_might_and_magic", "Skyforge Clash", "Skyforge Settlers", "Terra", "Skyforge"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-browser-based-multiplayer-fantasy-game-with-realtime-chat-ai-parties", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-browser-based-multiplayer-fantasy-game-with-realtime-chat-ai-parties.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-browser-based-multiplayer-fantasy-game-with-realtime-chat-ai-parties.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-browser-based-multiplayer-fantasy-game-with-realtime-chat-ai-parties.jsonld"}}