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[RISK Game Of Thrones]

I am keen to see if RISK Game Of Thrones can be played over the internet by up to 7 humans who have legitimately purchased the board game but are challeneged to find enough like-minded individuals available to play in their neighbourhood.

Any guidance or advice is welcome. 

[I'm just searching for like-minded individuals at this stage.]

I do have a purpose for necromancing this thread...

Should any reader be aware of somebody who might have explored this type of project idea .. would you please introduce me to them?

I am speculating somethng similar but with scope limited to board/table games. A trusted daemon that serves as synchronizer among several humans playing (after having legitimately purchased) a common boardgame.

No game engine per se, just a hybrid majordomo+timekeeper role for despatching to humans such information as randomized card draws & di(c)e rolls; board state {either as incremental changes, the norm;  or as a universal state, for the hopefully rarer rebuild case} 

The fundamental goals being to keep human players:

• honest,
• synchronized and
• accountable for any pre-agreed time limits for various phases of game play.

This majordomo would most likely behave as a 'bot present on the text channel of a video conference shared by the humans. The 'bot might receive gameplay input from humans and subsequently broadcast card/dice event outcomes to humans via the text channel of such a video conference which might be on any of numerous available platforms.
Successfully handling timekeeping in a way that keeps gameplay flowing and engaging for humans may prove rather tricky. I imagine the presumption must be that each human is at the keyboard and 100%-engaged in the game, not multitasking, taking a non-sanctioned bio-break or otherwise AWOL.

It is very early days ... I'm just searching for like-minded individuals at this stage.

This would be an open source project most likely licensed using one of the Creative Commons copyleft categories.

Regards,