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Tank Turns Beta [Work in Progress]
« on: March 06, 2010, 10:41:35 PM »
http://www.tankturns.com/

Tank Turns is a turn-based strategy game developed in JavaScript.

The objective of the game is to navigate around the map and kill the enemy.

The game is played in turns. Both players decide all of their actions ahead of time. The goal is to predict the enemy movement and plan for their actions. Once you've decided your moves, you end your turn. Once your opponent is done, the round will play back.

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This is a project I've been working on for a short period of time now. I actually had intended on submitting it to the games competition that ran recently but I didn't have it quite ready on time.

The concept is very basic. Players load onto a map and shoot at each other until one of them dies. It's like a combination of playing battleships and rock paper scissors. It really comes down to predicting your opponent well. I find the game to be a lot of fun. It's the first time I've gotten a project like this off the ground, and it's been a lot of fun developing it.

This is still a massive work in progress. I've playtested it quite a bit, and it should run pretty smoothly in major browsers. The code still needs a lot of cleaning, but I'm really happy with it so far.

Comments? Thoughts? Notice any bugs?

Thanks for checking it out.

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Re: Tank Turns Beta [Work in Progress]
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2010, 11:56:23 PM »
Haha, its a fun game, coz I just beat you. :)

The game-play seems limited and a match ends pretty quick. Maybe you could increase the size of the map? I am playing as a guest only, so am not sure if I can configure the size of the map.

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Re: Tank Turns Beta [Work in Progress]
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2010, 07:37:58 AM »
It is definitely  lot of fun...the goals you have seem to be pretty much the things I would suggest. The first thing I would add is a forum and in-game chat, so that testers can work out ll the bugs.
Second thing I'd add is  'back button' so that you can take back a move if you turn the wrong way or something.

Other then that, its really fun! I think there is a ton of potential, and I can't wait to see where it goes....

Also I'm not really sure how you did the coding, but I didn't realize this was possible in javascript. It looks and runs great on FF

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Re: Tank Turns Beta [Work in Progress]
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2010, 09:48:32 AM »
It is a fun game indeed :). Curious to see where you are taking it too.

Isn't there a way to crack the javascript, by the way?
« Last Edit: March 07, 2010, 11:16:20 AM by jannesiera »

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Re: Tank Turns Beta [Work in Progress]
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2010, 03:25:14 PM »
It reminds me somewhat of chess but with tanks :)

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Re: Tank Turns Beta [Work in Progress]
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2010, 05:41:21 PM »
Isn't there a way to crack the javascript, by the way?
Yeah, the JS is not obfuscated or anything. If someone really wanted to work at it, they could put the game together using the client.js file.

But a lot of the server-side stuff is pretty crucial, so it might take a bit of time to re-create the multiplayer aspect of it all.

Thanks for taking a look, guys.

 


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