Need to waste MORE time at work?

[WayAbvPar]

This should keep you entertained between posting rants here. It is simplistic, but pretty damned fun. Much better than the whack the penguin game that was all the rage a few months back.

[Kenrick]

Sweet.  Kinda like a medieval version of Tanks. :)

[Furiously]

Vs. Human = bloody fun!

[Alkiera]

This is so a re-write of that qbasic game where you put in angle and force, and had monkeys throw bananas at each other.

It's still fun.

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Alkiera

[Righ]

This is so a re-write of that qbasic game where you put in angle and force, and had monkeys throw bananas at each other.

http://www.korelstar.de/qbasic/Gorilla.bas

[Signe]

Ok, I really hate you guys,  sometimes.  I stayed up til 4AM playing silly qbasic games.  It was WAY too fun!

[Alkiera]

This is so a re-write of that qbasic game where you put in angle and force, and had monkeys throw bananas at each other.

http://www.korelstar.de/qbasic/Gorilla.bas

Aye, that's the one.  You had to edit it for each machine you ran it on, because the animation was based on an empty loop for timing, and powerful machines ran it way too fast...(and by powerful, I mean 66Mhz)

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Alkiera

[Daydreamer]

This is so a re-write of that qbasic game where you put in angle and force, and had monkeys throw bananas at each other.

http://www.korelstar.de/qbasic/Gorilla.bas

Aye, that's the one.  You had to edit it for each machine you ran it on, because the animation was based on an empty loop for timing, and powerful machines ran it way too fast...(and by powerful, I mean 66Mhz)

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Alkiera

Aye, I remember many happy days in my Middle School's library doing just that.  Those were the days...

[geldonyetich]

You guys are making me feel old.   QBasic Gorillas?   Bah!   First time I played Artillery was on the Apple ][es in my Elementary School's Science lab.    Or maybe it was my Vic-20 or C-64, but I don't remember a particular artillery game for those platforms off the top of my head.

In my experience, the best implementations of artillery-like games was either Worms (preferably non-3D) or Scorched Earth.    Though there have been 3D artillery games, 3D doesn't do well for the genre.

Anywho, erm, good find WayAbvPar.  Hurray for flash and people with too much time on their hands.

[schild]

Mmmmmm, scorched Earth.

[Alluvian]

It always amazes me that no matter how many new artillery games come out, none of them have ever come anywhere NEAR the quality of scorched earth IMO.  To me, gunbound SUCKS compared to it.  Worms weapon selection sucks compared to it as well, but it had a lot of charm at least and I liked the mobility of the worms.

But scorched earth was the best.   The REALLY big MIRVs and warp walls equalled love.  Mmmmm death from above.  Or alternately, we would sing "I'm on --- top of the world, looking --- down on creation with a bunch of baby rollers in my hand".

And I liked all the different shields and earth moving/adding weapons.

[schild]

As much as I hate to say it, Scorched Earth was streamlined in a way that only Blizzard can replicate. It's taken a number of years for games to be so straightforward since the original NES came out.

I mean look at the original Super Mario Bros. Then look at that bizarre super soaker Mario was wearing in his latest abortion. Sure, the game had it's moments - but that 'feeling' everyone got when they played the original is LONG GONE.

[Alluvian]

You are thinking big dev houses though.  Scorched Earth aint that kind of game.  Lots of people in the small indie world can understand simple fun.  Check out Pom-Pom games for two great examples.  Space Tripper was brilliantly simple and fun.  Mutant Storm brought back the old robotron fun for me with a decent dual analog setup.

Wonder what they are making next?

[schild]

That's my point. It took a big dev house to achieve the streamlined nature of Scorched Earth.

The Mario reference was only to show how a game can go from streamlined into a complete mess.

[geldonyetich]

You might not have liked Super Mario Sunshine, but I really can't argue with a sincere desire on behalf of a development house to develop new and interesting gameplay.    "If it aient broke don't fix it" thinking tends to lead to clones, which we've more than our share of.

Back on the topic of artillery games, one I enjoyed was Moonbase Commander.   There's a demo out for it.    It's an interesting twist where you're not just artillery firing projectiles but base modules.    I suspect there's some killer tactics that are very hard to defend against, however.

[schild]

I didn't say don't innovate. Jesus, people are reading into shit lately. I said it's a convoluted mess.

Games need to stop thinking that aiming with an analog stick is fun. It's fucking NOT. It's bad enough I have to aim my bow and arrow in Ninja Gaiden on XBox. If I had to aim the shruikens I do believe I would have killed someone by now.

[Sky]

I can't agree enough with that sentiment about analog sticks for aiming. I was playing some desert combat something on my buddy's xbox, four of us in a squad, I'm the most experienced FPS player of the bunch (using mouse.keyb). I couldn't hit shit, and to make it worse, there was some kind of aim-correcting crap trying to 'help' me out...which meant my normal overcorrecting for the mushy analog stick feel turned into a total debacle. I left and went home to play Far Cry.

[Aslan]

Ahh, but don't forget the mystical Phantom, and it's pimped mouse - keyboard combination that you can balance on your LAP!

[Shockeye]

810 1151 is my high. What's yours?

[Jain Zar]

According to some Amiga users, Scorched Tanks is even better than Scorched Earth.  Of course, there aren't many Amiga users out there..

[schild]

Hey Shockeye, I won. Guess where you have to go.

Oh, and that was the third try. First try was about 15, then 643 and then this score after a little math. First time I've done actual math outside of...ya know, counting change....since 10th grade.

[Shockeye]

Try resetting it each time dumbass.

[TheWalrus]

1414. Still workin on it though. Fun game.

[Shockeye]

1350 is my highest so far. I should really be working.

[schild]

Try resetting it each time dumbass.

I did. Now go get dems tickets.

[Shockeye]

Ok, I think I'm done.

[schild]

I have to put something in this box to make the post. Just attaching a grief image isn't enough. Cockles.

[Shockeye]

Get thee to hell.

[schild]

You fixed the bottom right corner. B++. I bet you can score lower than $2000 at Travelocity.

Edit: And here.

[Shockeye]

I'm done. Pinky promise.

[schild]

If it makes you feel any better, this is officially the first game I've ever seen that a monkey could actually beat.

SHOCKEYE, A MONKEY COULD DO BETTER THAN YOU.

[Paelos]

1340, and i stopped caring. The sound is annoying.

[schild]

1340, and i stopped caring. The sound is annoying.

Yep, dings can get annoying when they're too fast. And when they're too slow you miss them. The MMORPG plays with a delicate balance, indeed.