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VTanks

By jpverkamp

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness374
Theme3523.07
Humor3741.71
Fun4232.44
Audio4581.39
Mood5021.96
Overall5092.42
Graphics5322.02
Innovation5461.68

Comments

nakato 2013-04-29 11:48

Very simple concept.
Graphics are perhaps to minimalist, white on fullblack was not very good for eyes

depp 2013-04-29 11:57

I like the destructible terrain.

skywilly 2013-04-29 11:59

Great "Worms" concept, really Minimalist. Good Work !

raincole 2013-04-29 12:02

To those who got confused: press space to shoot.

tiffi 2013-04-29 12:10

after loosing my first tank to myself, it is quite fun to play. reminds me gorillas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)

jpverkamp 2013-04-29 19:21

@Nakato: I actually played with a few nice gradient fills, but for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to get Haxe to generate it bottom to top rather than left to right which just looked strange. Alternatively, I could have used images (a la http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Scorched_Earth_title_screen.png/300px-Scorched_Earth_title_screen.png), but that's a bit less minimal.

@Dietrich Epp: That took a while to get right. It's still a little buggy...

@raincole: Completely forgot about that! I added it to the readme text.

@everyone: Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad I made some time this time to submit. The LD community is amazing.

McFunkypants 2013-04-29 21:31

Nice work! This would be a cool worms style game engine that you could build upon.

ointment 2013-04-30 03:50

That terrain-breaking algorithm is cool.

metadept 2013-04-30 03:53

I miss Scorched Earth : (

Nice game, and glad to see you decided to stick it out and submit instead of giving up! I liked the terrain mechanics, but I wish there were a more visual way to see your power (like the length of your barrel?) so that it would be a little easier to learn. Good job!

taylorlunt 2013-04-30 05:02

Decent game.

entity2d 2013-04-30 11:02

Great game, very much like a minimal Scorched Earth.

tcstyle 2013-05-01 09:33

It works. Had to get used to the terrain behaviour.

mort96 2013-05-01 23:04

I remember being addicted to this kind of tank games years ago. Great memories :3

tsuki_usagi 2013-05-02 01:17

maybe the graphics were a bit too minimalist but I had fun playing it

mramaizng 2013-05-02 04:41

the terrain destruction is awesome! Great job!

aceria 2013-05-03 08:03

Good work for your first time with new software :)

pabloalexandre31 2013-05-04 22:55

Really minimalist.

donan 2013-05-13 13:03

Classic scorched earth :D. Needs more visual appealing, but its hard in few days :)