New game

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Sep 14 2009, 5:55 pm (Edited on Sep 14 2009, 7:23 pm)
Finished the game I was working on. Suprisingly, it only took 2 weeks to finish.

You can find the hub for it here...
http://www.byond.com/games/TheMagicMan/WoH

I'll host a server for a few days, depending on whether people even care about the game or not.
Again, depending on whether people care or not I may or may not update it in the future (and I may, or may not bother using BYOND ever again).

I'm still not sure if I should even bother submitting it to a guild, and if so what guild to submit it to.
The game has aspects of a RPG, is an action game, but cannot be won without stratergy.

Also, the game is probably buggy. But should have no major or game breaking bugs.
It is also strictly multiplayer only.

Anyway, about the game.


It is a multiplayer, PVP based game. The general objective is to kill enemy players.
The game is suppose to be played in rounds. You organize a few friends, and play a game 3vs3 for example. Once the game starts, no one can join (or leave) until it is finished.
But there is an optional "free" mode where anyone can play and join and practice (which is what the server I am hosting is set to).
The game is largely inspired by games like DOTA and HON and is a similar genre of game.

You can play as either Humanity, or Legion. Each team has 16 heroes to play as, all of them are different and have different role in combat.

Depending on the game mode selected the objective is one of 3 things.
If the mode is Deathmath then the objective is to kill enemy players. The first team to a set amount of kills wins.
If the mode is Protection, then the objective is to kill the enemies king, while protecting your own. You have a variety of NPCs in the form of grunts and towers to help you protect your king. The objective is to fight through these, until you finally reach and kill the enemy king.

There is also a "free" mode of the above two. This mode has no technical objective, it is more of a practise mode than anything. But is otherwise played the exact same way.
Sep 14 2009, 6:29 pm
Great game. I think everyone should give it a try.
Sep 14 2009, 6:59 pm (Edited on Sep 14 2009, 7:08 pm)
Whenever someone wants to release their game, I would always suggest the following:

* State the game's full name
* Give information about the game
* Is it a TDS or a Platformer
* Include some pictures

As with professionally made games, people would like to know what the game is about along with some screenshots before they commit to playing.

"Again, depending on whether people care or not I may or may not update it in the future (and I may, or may not bother using BYOND ever again)."

I would also suggest having high confidence that your game will gain a community. People do not want to play a game by a person who is on the edge of discontinuing it, right when it was released, along with the discontinued use of the engine the game is made on. It gives me the impression that you may believe your game is no good.

[EDIT]
My First Impression of the Game:
I appear in grassland full of trees, might I add, that do not match. After some toying around for a couple of minutes, I finally came to the conclusion that in order to move, you must click. The small icons on the interface I suppose are for my specials, yet, when I attempt to use them I always get the message "You need to level this skill up before you can use it." Along with that, I have no clue how to attack. I see "monsters" roaming the lands, thus far, they ignore anything I do.

I would recommend providing a help guide for those who have no idea on what to do.
Sep 14 2009, 7:14 pm
Yeah, I probably should do that.
It is 5AM though, and getting a working match making system for a game can be mind boggling when you're tired.

I however cannot really post pictures of the game. For one simple reason.
It is strictly a multi-player only game, any pictures I on my own take would not do it justice, and I would need other people playing the game to take decent pictures.

Also, to be fair. Except for bugs, the game is for all intents and purposes finished. And whether I support it or not in the future, it is a fully functional, and playable game.

But I will update it with the other information.
Though to be fair I'm not sure what you'd class the genre of game as.

As for Help.
At the top, next to File, Help and then select what you want help with.
Sep 15 2009, 5:20 am
@ "Oldbie": who are you, and why did you have the douchebaggy nerve to create a key as lame as that


oh, and you're dumb
Sep 15 2009, 7:46 am
If you're going to make the game an absurd resolution could you at least position it at 0,0 when it starts up?
Sep 15 2009, 8:29 am
SuperAntx wrote:
If you're going to make the game an absurd resolution could you at least position it at 0,0 when it starts up?

You must have some messed up computer, monitor or graphics card.
The resolution the game uses is 1024x768.

That is a pretty common resolution, actually, the most commonly used.
I probably forgot to account for the start bar at the bottom on windows and the bar at the top of the window (with the minimize and close buttons), so I could change the screen resolution to 1024x698 to accomodate for it.
Sep 15 2009, 8:31 am
I'm at 1024x768.

The game starts almost outside of my screen area. It's just really, really annoying to play games which should be maximized but they're in windowed mode. It's not that hard to check someone's resolution.