War Trail

[Ingemar]

Oopsie, fixed a last minute bug, uploaded a "_fixed" version, should show as 0.1.3

Last minute? But the last minute is tomorrow! (Unless my definition on the 29th is way off.)

[WILL]

You can submit new fixed or updated versions as always. I'd recommend that you just number them sequentially as a means to show which is the "newest" so that we don't accidentally use an older one (with the problem) to be judged and scored. I found that there was a lot of strange conventions used in the 1st challenge submissions. Sticking to a numeric system works best as we only have to think higher = newest/best.

[masonwheeler]

A couple bugs I've found in this:

The "Win/Loss" scoreboard actually shows wins/total games. (So if you win 4 matches and lose 1, it will say 4/5).

Related to the previous, quitting out of a match in progress increases the Loss column by 1 even though you didn't lose. And since there's no way to restart a level, trying repeatedly for a 3 star rating on a difficult map can rack up a large quantity of "losses."

The ballista turret can sometimes get stuck turning in nonsensical ways, like continually turning clockwise to track an enemy that's moving clockwise across the field of fire (around a curve) without ever actually pointing at it enough to fire. This is particularly noticeable when you have the fast-moving enemies and the turret is placed on the inside of a curve in the track. (Which is the most logical place to put it.)

[Eric]

The "Win/Loss" scoreboard actually shows wins/total games.

That's a bit of a leftover really, I meant to replace it with trophies/achievements, but haven't found the time yet (the trophy icons are already in the sprite sheet IIRC, just not used)

like continually turning clockwise to track an enemy that's moving clockwise across the field of fire (around a curve) without ever actually pointing at it enough to fire.

That's by design actually, all towers have a turn rate, so you all placements "in range" are not equivalent in terms of aiming and rate of fire. :-)

[masonwheeler]

That's a bit of a leftover really, I meant to replace it with trophies/achievements, but haven't found the time yet (the trophy icons are already in the sprite sheet IIRC, just not used)

Cool! Looking forward to seeing that!

That's by design actually, all towers have a turn rate, so you all placements "in range" are not equivalent in terms of aiming and rate of fire. :-)

Fair enough, but this is a problem I haven't had in other tower defense games. They generally have enough AI to realize if they can't catch a certain target and then turn in the opposite direction to focus on a new target, so that they're not rendered completely useless. Would you be able to add something like that, as an anti-frustration feature? Because the current behavior really is highly frustrating.

[Eric]

Haven't found the time to update the game since the challenge (booh...)

Though thanks to node-webkit, there is now a standalone version available, grab the installer there
setup-WarTrail-0.1.3.exe (30 MB)

Startup times are *fast*, as ressources no longer have to be downloaded (17+ MB for WarTrail). Also it'll work just fine whatever your favourite browser is (since it won't use it).

Should be possible to make standalone versions for Linux & Mac too, if someone is interested in trying...