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Article #39Re: Beta testers needed!
From: Christian Lassem
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 00:00
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Hi again! I see my first post must have been poorly written, and maybe a bit to misleading. I wil now try to clarify a bit more what kind of game we are talking about: WHat we have made, is a Web-based Strategy Game. The interface, if I may be technical, will be pure HTML. All players must create an account at our website, login with their name and password, and they will be directed to the gamesite, logged in a a certain user. This user will then enter a HTML page with a menu on the left, with access to the different "screens" like Constructoin Yard (Where you are supposed to buid your buildings, the Science Lab, where you can do research on various topics and even a production facility where you can build spaceships (A bunch different unit-types, Like fighters, bombers, cruisers, Science Vesses ++++). Now, consider this game to be turnbased, with one turn taking place every hour. Every hour, our (hopefully) huge database will update all accounts, adding this round of new resources, completeing structures or units, maybe even opening up for some new availabe research items or units and such. The menu also has a "Military" screen, where you can send your ships out on missions. You can attack other players to steal some of their hard-worked-for asteroids (which produces resources every round), maybe even get a rare one which produces a NEW resource type, used to build some SPECIAL unit, or you can even send your ships on Defending missions, to help allies who are under attack. We also have some discussion groups going inside the game, we have a message system so all players can send messages to eachohter, and quite a bit of fun and surprises I do not yet wish to reveal here. (Yes, the testers will receive the whole lot, along with all algorithms used in combat calculation and so on). So the reason that there is no download, is that it is in HTML (CGI-generated of course) connected to our database. This is not intended to be something you play for 3 hours in a row, like more normal games, but one you log on to once or twice a day, to build new buildings, more ships, checking your inbox for messages and discussing galaxy-topics within a closed board. So no flash, no 3D, no force-feedback, but good od strategy fun! To any gamers who have yet not tried such strategy games, I promise, it wil be a lot of fun. And the more testers and later on regular users, THE MORE FUN! And: There are other games iof this type on the net now, but we have worked hard to make sure we have a better product, focused on gameplay and dynamics, making things a litte bit different every now and then. If you liked Starcraft, or play games like Descent Freespace (Which rocks bigtime!) then this would be worth a try. And what do you have to loose, it's free! I hope this was at least a bit clarifying, and that some of you will actually join us as beta-testers. With hope of being understood, allthough my keyboard is very reluctant to type the letter 'l' from time to time, Christian Lassem PS: If you guys reacted because I cross-posted, I am sorry, but all the groups were related to the game, and I am sorry if I offended anyone.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f48f6,c66f62145d77a0d8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf48f6,public X-Google-Thread: 101fe0,c66f62145d77a0d8 X-Google-Attributes: gid101fe0,public X-Google-Thread: f79c9,c66f62145d77a0d8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf79c9,public X-Google-Thread: 114e12,c66f62145d77a0d8 X-Google-Attributes: gid114e12,public From: "Christian Lassem" <chrislas@c2i.net> Subject: Re: Beta testers needed! Date: 1999/10/21 Message-ID: <OtLP3.362$fV1.13875@juliett.dax.net> X-Deja-AN: 539007693 References: <y%CP3.112$fV1.2806@juliett.dax.net> <380F05A9.42BA2008@btinternet.com> <380f9def.3937408@news.shef.ac.uk> <SSKP3.340$fV1.12794@juliett.dax.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tele2.no X-Trace: juliett.dax.net 940540910 193.217.49.182 (Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:21:50 MET DST) Organization: Tele2 Norway AS Public Access X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:21:50 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim,dk.edb.spil,no.fritid.spill.data,uk.games.computer.multiplayer