Great graphics, slow going, but great game. If this game was converted to assembly, it would be a great game.

Yes, it should be converted to assembly

The previous comments say it all. Advanced graphics engine, atleast it looks like one, un optimal coding or the advancedness cause a slowdown that ruins the whole game.

No, it's only slow 'cause it's in BASIC.

He ment it could go a little faster if there weren't so many advanced options.

I doubt it. TankWars goes extremely slow whether or not there are a ton of advanced options in it.

thats probably cuz of physics(lots of math equations) which takes the calc some time to sort through

Erm... I programmed TankWars, and you don't need much physics for a 2-D, grid-based board game like it.

yarrh! down w/BASIC! this should devinately be ported to ASM, and looks promising. Im not d/ling tho til ther's an ASM version!

uh-oh. looks like someone's gonna geta thrashin'.

na... flame wars are 'bad' ... mm .. ya ...

This game is so evil I just ate it.

im not a grammer/spelling stickler, but in this case ur meaning is unclear; do u mean 'hate'?

or do u have a scotish accent
"i 'ate your dog, and i 'ate the mess he left in the yard!"
-groundskeeper willie

I laughed out loud uncontrollably at this.

i hope u didnt hurt yourself :)
next time ill put a warning: "caution: potenially fatal joke ahead"

-jordan

Nice graphics. I'm probably not gonna dl it cause im not to hip on 'civilization' games. However I might try to convert this to asm (if i can). I'm curious, how long did it take to make and debug this game?

It took about two weeks to build the graphics engine, a week to build the gameplay, and another week to debug.

I think this is the first BASIC game to be featured seriously (as in, not in jest-eg nickd's Random Number Generator v1.00000069) in about 3 years. As somebody else said, if I was into Civ games I would download it.

Actualy it is the second to be featured in....however long. Check the link!

That's not a *game* though :)

And if you count non-game BASIC programs, there was also my CHEMISLV that was featured once upon a time. It lost the POTM vote (which still existed at that time) with a huge margin, though. And there was no news item about it, it just got the "featured" icon in the archives and the POTM nomination.

... /fileinfo/106/10618.html

Bah...whatever. I give up!

I could be wrong, but wasn't Random Numbar Generator by NickD featured?

unfortunately, for a very stupid reason tho.

why?

cause nickd is the man, and because he wielded Real Ultimate Power (figure of speech) at ticalc for a while.

well, who posted the news about it? was it kerm himself? I DEMAND TO KNOW! THE TRUTH WILL BE DISCLOSED, OUT THERE!!!!

*points at top of article*

The article was posted by Michael Vincent.

Generally it says at the top of the article which staff member posted it. Also, I don't have news posting privileges, as I am not a ticalc.org staff member.

Thank god

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