Some of you may have heard, seen, or even played my game, War. Not the card game, the strategy game where you set up a plane of units, give them a basic tactic, and let their AI blow away the opponent. This is actually an old project inspired by Thief jack, but I've started messing with it some more lately. Supprisingly, I've been getting good crowd with it. My first mistake was over-hosting it in the alpha stage.

As I've said, (despite the date shown on the hub entry) this is an old project, and my formatting and and orginazation was a little crap-tacular back then. This code is a jumble of incorrectly-named DM files, over-use of incorrectly-named variables, and a threading nightmare! Recently, I decided to get a heavy mallet, and hammer a player queue into a puzzle it didn't belong. Whew, another nightmare. Crossed wires everywhere, just to work arround the procedure crashes. So, I say, ENOUGH!

Naturally, my first (and best) idea is a complete, and total revamp. This time, however, I have experience on my side. I'll use the same basic AI, only easier to modify and customize. In the original game, I had two player variables: player1, and player2... So much complication in such a seemly simple setup! So far, I've implemented support for multiple games, multiple players (more than two), watchers, and I've had a good start at organizing the AI. I have planned out better handling of disconnecting players (or playerless player-characters), and importing and loading of maps. What I would like to include are more teams: perhapse smirkies, and grinnies? (In addition to the smileys and frownies.) When it comes to teamates, I can just brighten or darken unit icons.

What I need input for:

• A new name! (Come on, "War" is already a card game! Is there some patent on the name?)
• Suggestions for better team smileys.

As for these two, you may suggest through this blog's comment section.
If you have any other suggestions, stick them in War's BYOND-provided forum.