With a bit of music and some better colours this could be a really great game. It was enjoyable enough to make me want to try and 'beat it'. Not sure how it fits the theme though.
Cool game, I like the driving mechanics. As others already mentioned it is difficult to find a good connection between this game and the theme. But good job anyway.
I hope you read that "You Only Get One" life for both worlds (ingame) ... I just added it to my description of the game. But I wasn't very happy with the connection to the theme, too! Thanks for the feedback so far! :)
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Most tank games, in my opinion, make the vehicle so slow that it's not fun, while yours was in between a car feel and a tank feel, which I thought was great. Slower would have been boring, and faster gets a bit too hard to control and has problems because you can't see what's coming.
Also some great little touches, such as the brake lights, and the dirt flying out the back when I get moving from a stop. I was going to say the turrets let me out-range them and gimp them all... but then later in the level the turrets did NOT have that flaw, so I realized it was a progression of difficulty choice.
Well done, I love vehicle combat games but the genre is full of pitfalls, you avoided most of them.
A few small points of feedback:
- I think skidding is what takes a vehicles "feel" over the top. Even a tank could reasonably skid on grass. It might seem hard to implement, and it depends on your logic, but I had some luck implementing skids in the past using a "traction limit" and if the "asked" traction exceeds the limit, you give them the full limit, and then only a percentage of the portion above the limit. This creates a slide when turning at big speeds that I think adds a ton of fun to any vehicle game. That's just my opinion, of course.
- I strugged to get through a few tight areas, particularly the final turret on the narrow beach.
- I think battles would have been a bit more dynamic if the map was structure a little differently. Mostly the walls created an open space, so the battle was inside walls, but no walls were inside the battle.
- Maybe it's less challenging, but I like the idea of near misses in this sort of game with leading and fast targets. What if my shell would LAND where I clicked (beyond a certain range) and have an explosion with splash damage?
Anyway, that's a lot of comments, but I wish more people did vehicle combat!
A good start. With a bit more polishing, a little faster gameplay (although that's probably a matter of taste) and better sound and visuals it could become a really cool and addictive game. Having the upgrade menu in there certainly was a good idea. :)
Nice game! The ending was funny :D It was quite hard sometimes, to hit the moving enemies, but once I got used to it, it was ok. The turrets can be shot from a save distance, but you probably know that already ;) Good work! :)
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I would've wished for you to do something a bit more with the "you only get one" theme. Otherwise good job!
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Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Game.jar
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
Good game.
Most tank games, in my opinion, make the vehicle so slow that it's not fun, while yours was in between a car feel and a tank feel, which I thought was great. Slower would have been boring, and faster gets a bit too hard to control and has problems because you can't see what's coming.
Also some great little touches, such as the brake lights, and the dirt flying out the back when I get moving from a stop. I was going to say the turrets let me out-range them and gimp them all... but then later in the level the turrets did NOT have that flaw, so I realized it was a progression of difficulty choice.
Well done, I love vehicle combat games but the genre is full of pitfalls, you avoided most of them.
A few small points of feedback:
- I think skidding is what takes a vehicles "feel" over the top. Even a tank could reasonably skid on grass. It might seem hard to implement, and it depends on your logic, but I had some luck implementing skids in the past using a "traction limit" and if the "asked" traction exceeds the limit, you give them the full limit, and then only a percentage of the portion above the limit. This creates a slide when turning at big speeds that I think adds a ton of fun to any vehicle game. That's just my opinion, of course.
- I strugged to get through a few tight areas, particularly the final turret on the narrow beach.
- I think battles would have been a bit more dynamic if the map was structure a little differently. Mostly the walls created an open space, so the battle was inside walls, but no walls were inside the battle.
- Maybe it's less challenging, but I like the idea of near misses in this sort of game with leading and fast targets. What if my shell would LAND where I clicked (beyond a certain range) and have an explosion with splash damage?
Anyway, that's a lot of comments, but I wish more people did vehicle combat!
The ending was funny :D
It was quite hard sometimes, to hit the moving enemies, but once I got used to it, it was ok. The turrets can be shot from a save distance, but you probably know that already ;)
Good work! :)