hi, I work as at a fablab in a public library and we started a project today with some of the kids that are learning game making with us.
The game, called Battler for now, is kind of a very simplified total war concept in which the strategic map you move your army on lies to the player about the size of the ennemy armies. That way the player must make decision based on information he knows to be probably false, but he has no choice because... The game is a liar.
We did the navigation of the strategic map today plus a basic ai controller. We started the tactical battle map too (for now it will only be stupid ai charging each other but we'll see what we can do). Tomorrow camera control and battle manager to start tactical battles from the strategic map .