Ring of Oil by quadtree
*** IMPORTANT ***
Be sure to unzip all the files in the ZIP file in the same place so the JAR can find the "robots" subfolder. Simply running the JAR from inside the ZIP file will cause a crash when you click "Tournament" in game.
Enter a single robot into the Ring of Oil Tournament, and try to survive all the rounds. Remember, there are no repairs or rearms, so whatever you go in with is all you have. If you want, you can also try your hand at creating new robots in the workshop.
Controls:
A-D/Arrow Keys: Move left or right
1-9: Activate module groups (configurable in the editor)
Mouse: Aim arms, if you have any
Escape: Go back
Return: Go forwards
This game requires a recent Java Runtime. One can be downloaded from www.java.com if you don't have one.
Be sure to unzip all the files in the ZIP file in the same place so the JAR can find the "robots" subfolder. Simply running the JAR from inside the ZIP file will cause a crash when you click "Tournament" in game.
Enter a single robot into the Ring of Oil Tournament, and try to survive all the rounds. Remember, there are no repairs or rearms, so whatever you go in with is all you have. If you want, you can also try your hand at creating new robots in the workshop.
Controls:
A-D/Arrow Keys: Move left or right
1-9: Activate module groups (configurable in the editor)
Mouse: Aim arms, if you have any
Escape: Go back
Return: Go forwards
This game requires a recent Java Runtime. One can be downloaded from www.java.com if you don't have one.
Ratings
| Coolness | 41% | 1259 |
| Overall | 3.56 | 134 |
| Audio | 2.56 | 477 |
| Fun | 3.56 | 97 |
| Graphics | 2.94 | 493 |
| Innovation | 3.61 | 108 |
| Theme | 2.28 | 816 |
-Flatgub
If you'd managed a text export/import feature for player designed robots, it would be a hit!
Rapid Shooter:
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5498/oi78.png
Static Slasher:
http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/7383/inly.png
Despite its name and lack of wheels, static slasher is quite mobile actually and is yet to be beaten at least once in my experience. The other robot still loses sometimes against heavy-shooting opponents.
This game has some serious bugs,
but with some work this could be seriously awesome!
Great job dude!
The crash when pressing enter "to begin" will happen when you don't unzip the JAR along with its data files into the same place. When you start the tournament, it tries to seed your opponents but can't find any. If I had it to do over I'd probably have it display a more descriptive error message.
The super-speed matches are AI-vs-AI matches. Since it is a 8 way single elimination tournament, there are 7 matches, 4 quarterfinals, 2 semifinals and 1 final. You can only ever play in one of each, for a total of 3, so the remaining 4 matches are played in 64x speed.
You just need to polish the gameplay in order to have hit: sometimes robots would rebound after being dropped and fall on their side, sometimes I'd just win without any contact, and sometimes I'd get shot to pieces before I could do anything.
Nice work with the graphics and audio as well!