Tired of wading knee-deep in blood? Bored of being blown into tiny bits? Let stickmen do it so you don't have to in;


It's not quite finished - I still have two empty deployment slots left - any suggestions? Rocket-launcher? Flamethrower? Bouncing Bunny of Doom? Hmmm... maybe not the bunny...

quite fun!
minelayer and kamikadze (run with bomb and explode) will be cool

why? as long as you can conut to 3, it is fine.

It takes 100% CPU and is extremely slow on my laptop (<1fps) making it unplayable here.

Laptop with 3GB, 2GHz Core2 Duo T6400, Ubuntu 9.04
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.4.1) (6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu11)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 14.0-b08, mixed mode)

But 5 is right out! Lol - I love that film!

That's really strange - I can't think where the blockage could be - this is the least graphics-intensive thing I've ever written! I've had over 150 fps with frame lock off...

I'd love that too! I wonder if Kevglass's magic i-phone stuff could help me here?

Minelayer and kamikaze seem to be the popular choices for the empty slots, but I can see I'll need to get it right or I could throw the whole game balance out...

haha that was so much fun!

I agree multiplayer would be awesome

I don't seem to be able to summon fencers. There's also an interesting bug with your test code - if I summon a base (press B) right next to the enemy one, then when they destroy it I win the level.

I'm getting 'multiplayer' from you guys in big letters, but how? I mean, what sort of multiplayer? What the best way to go?

I know now - I didn't when I was testing! I had a game that was really tense, my base got hammered down to 1% but I managed to drive them all off and I finally won, but my last archer died as he fired the winning shot. I sat back thinking 'wow that was difficult' and as I watched, the last blue archer went across the map. I didn't have 'click to continue' then & I couldn't request an airdrop, so he shot my base and I lost! Loooool! I haven't laughed so much in ages! Moral: 'Don't take victory for granted!'
I'll have to change it I guess, but I really did like that twist in the tale!

The soldier/mortar combo is pretty powerful. Now it's 2/1 soldiers/archers, how about 1.5/1? I think the swordsmen are strong enough already? (I've been wiped out by 1 swordsman against many archers/mortars as they can't hit him easily).

Lol! That'll teach you to press random keys! You'll lose if any base but your original one is destroyed.
Can't think why no fencers tho... Does the box highlight?

 

Base: health:100 damage:1-3: accuracy:66%
Infantry: cost:1 health:1 damage:1 accuracy:66% speed:medium
Archer: cost:2 health:1 damage:2 accuracy:33% speed:medium
Mortar: cost:6 health:1 damage:0-5 (based on range from shellburst) accuracy:33% (of direct hit) speed:slow
Swordsman: cost:6 health:10 damage:3 accuracy:100% speed:fast
Engineer: cost:10 damage:0 accuracy:100% speed:medium

There's no predictive aiming. Base, infantry, swordsman and engy all need line of sight, mortar and archers don't.
Reload and 'dither' times also factor. Ranges and speeds both vary slightly (to spread the troops out visually).

I do need to add this info to the game, but it's tricky being concise with all that data...

Read his post again, what you say make sense, what he wrote sounds like a bug (I win)

I'd change the values to:
Base: health:100 damage:1-3: accuracy:66%
Infantry: cost:1 health:1 damage:1 accuracy:66% speed:medium
Archer: cost:1.5 health:1 damage:3 accuracy:50% speed:medium
Mortar: cost:6 health:1 damage:0-5 (based on range from shellburst) accuracy:33% (of direct hit) speed:slow
Swordsman: cost:6 health:15 damage:3 accuracy:100% speed:fast
Engineer: cost:10 damage:0 accuracy:100% speed:medium

Seeing as almost everything has 1 life the extra damage archers do compared to infantry makes them quite bad. Increase the damage (making them good against swordsmen and base) while increasing the accuracy and decreasing the cost would make the 4 archers about as good as the 6 infantry except they'd have a different use.

Swordsmen's extra damage is only necessary against other swordsmen and base so bumping their life a bit would make them more dangerous (actually reaching their target more of the time).

The AI is really no match, I rare end the ballte with any damage on my castle.

Anyway, in multiplayer, it would be nice to have much longer levels.... maybe 4 times as long. You could add real mountains, and dense forests. Then it's really about strategy, and the battle can take quite long.

This is realyl such a great concept. It should be trivial to make a 'lot' of money out of this when it is released on mobile devices...

Details and polish, all the way. This game is very well done and a lot of fun.

+1 point if the game installs and uninstalls correctly
+1 point if the game doesn't crash ever
+1 point if the game has "good" graphics that suit the game
+1 point if the game has "good" sound that suit the game
+1 point if the game's overall style is "good"
+1 point if the game is original or brings a great new original twist
+1 point if your judge enjoyed playing the game
+1 point if you don't whine and you demand nothing of the mods (simply saying "can you rate my game please" is fine)

8/10, featured!

I think you could easily get those other 2 points (presentation and completeness) just by continuing to work on this. I felt that the overall presentation was a little too stark, mostly I was thinking about the lack of a tutorial. The numbers above the units didn't immediately make sense to me, nor did I understand what they corresponded to. If you just touch everything up a bit to make it easier to know what's going on (when you first start playing), then I think that will help quite a bit. As for completeness, I feel this is missing a bit - I still feel some sort of hole in the gameplay, mainly having to do with the pace, I think. Guys were coming a little too slowly, and I didn't really feel like I had any way to get a leg up on the computer until I finally cheated. And even though I took quite a bit of damage (as did the computer) our engineers quickly made that a non-issue because the time between waves that can actually reach the bases is pretty long.

Just tried it again on a windows machine and it worked fine.
Wow, this is really fantastic in concept and style, thumbs up!
Strange it failed on Ubuntu/OpenJDK tough.

Why add another unit? Simplicity is... worth a lot.

Excellent stuff!  (And I finally managed to win without cheating!)

One tiny detail: the smoke in the background appears before the fighting starts.  Maybe save it for later in the game?

There is something to that...

Simon

I think this isn't the case in multiplayer. Even with 1 unit it would be thrilling, because then suddenly the focus lies on timing, and predicting the other guy, which can be hard enough. It's like playing checkers... 1 type of unit, lots of complexity.