Island Planet!

by mattdev
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.80
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.95
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.27
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.55
Community★★★★★★★★★★3.82
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★16%
Not quite how I wanted it to turn out, but it's sort of playable...

You start by controlling one tank, on one island. Each turn, you can choose to shoot with a tank, colonize another island, or create a new tank. New tanks can only be placed on colonized islands.

The enemy has the same goal. When either you or the computer runs out of tanks, the game is over.

Press space-bar to switch between the 3 turn types (new tank, colonize, shoot). Press tab to cycle through your tanks. WASD or arrow-keys to spin the planet. The text in the game should contain most of the instructions needed.

The source is a horrible mess of spaghetti code that wouldn't happen anywhere other than in a 48-hr game competition ;).

Languages/libraries used:
C++
LibNoise
Havok
Bass

Apps used:
Photoshop
3DS Max
Reason (for music)
SFXR (for sounds)

Hope you enjoy it!

Tools: sfxr

Comments12

Tyler
Great concept, but your AI falls very short after a few rounds.
Tozy
IA doesn't place new tanks so i won in a few rounds.
moltanem2000
Lots of fun! though a little on the easy side. good job!
ickylevel
Doesn't works on my netbook. So bad cause it looked awesome.
Dude,...I just like it! It whole game feels just right. Graphics perfect, clear gameplay without any problems to understand what to do....very good job
xeon06
Great concept and great game, but at some point it just stuck on opponent's turn...
Endurion
Nice. I dig spherical worlds since Populous the Beginning.

There's some z buffering artifacts on my laptop, but nothing game breaking. Winning is quite easy so far, maybe add some more challenges?
SonnyBone
Crashed my computer after about 10 rounds. Totally locked up on me. This is nifty, but the AI never build any new tanks so it was pretty easy to cover the map with islands and tanks and then just annihilate the only enemy tank. Keep working on this, because it has potential.

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Hempuli
I found it hard to figure out how to attack! But the game seemed very cool.
someone
My mouse is hidden in game which makes clicking on stuff tricky.
Interesting concept though. The turn choices are a nice touch.
Diet Chugg
Doesn't run on my laptop so I cannot rate it... Game looked fun though.
eli
I like the choices of turn types! It keeps things fresh and moving along instead of going through stages every time it's your turn. Also, there is an element of choice.

As mentioned, it is too bad that the AI is so simple. But great graphic concept, and it's pretty fun!

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