Season 2 · Episode 14

Multiplayer Strategy Game

4 builds shipped in 30 minutes, live.

The brief

Tonight: build a strategy game two people can actually play against each other online — not a solo puzzle, an opponent. Doesn't matter what kind of strategy — territory control, resource management, a card battler, something closer to chess or Risk. Turn-based is the safer bet in 30 minutes; real-time is harder but hits different if you land it. Get two players moving against each other first, then worry about polish. A gorgeous board nobody can actually play against isn't a strategy game.

What “Multiplayer Strategy Game” meant

Every CampAI episode sets one theme and one constraint: 30 minutes, live, with AI doing the heavy lifting. Season 2's builders took “Multiplayer Strategy Game” in 4 different directions — the submissions below are what actually shipped inside the window, with the models used and the problems hit written up by the builders themselves.

Submissions

Every build

🏆 Winner

A point-and-click detective game

by Shawn Porter · 16 ratings

Two player game, one player clicks 'create a case' and invites their friend to help solve the crime

Word with Planes

by Air Planes · 16 ratings

Words with Planes puts you at a busy little airfield running freight instead of dogfights. Letters drop in as cargo crates and you turn them into words to load onto your plane, but nothing you claim is ever fully yours since anyone quick and clever enough can steal a word right out from under you by stretching it into something longer and different. Theres also a faster mode where you race the clock on short letter fragments and burn through engines if you cant keep up, with wider vocabulary earning you fuel back rather than just fast typing winning the day. Play solo against the tower for practice or jump into live matches against real people, sign in to keep your scores and climb the board, and enjoy some lighthearted callouts along the way.

NULLGRID, a real-time 2-player WebRTC tactical strategy game where players command specialized units, capture signal relays, use signature abilities, and race to control the grid.

by rookepoole · 16 ratings

Create a room and share the 6-character code or invite link with another player. Both players connect peer-to-peer over WebRTC and command a squad of Spike, Ghost, and Warden units on a 7×7 tactical grid. Each unit gets 2 AP per turn for movement, attacks, repairs, and fortification. Players fight over relay influence zones that generate Signal, with the first player to 10 Signal or the last surviving squad winning. Each class also has a once-per-match signature ability. New players can launch Tutorial vs AI, which walks them through movement, relay capture, AP chaining, defense, repair, ranged attacks, and then transitions into a full match against NULL//BOT.

Thrown Throw

by ₥AN$A · 16 ratings

A two-player dice race on a 7-tile board. A coin flip seats one player directly on the Throne (worth 5 pts) — that's the entire "lucky start." Each turn, whoever is farther from the Throne rolls two dice and keeps the higher (comeback mechanic); landing exactly on your opponent bumps them back to their home tile. Highest score after 16 turns wins. Built as a Node/Express + Socket.IO app with server-authoritative game state (rooms keyed by a 4-letter code, in-memory), deployed on Railway with a public domain — anyone can create a room, share the code, and play live, no login required.

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