Short: Beam in droids to fight in an arena. Author: Joar Berntsen Uploader: joar berntsen netcom no Type: game/think Version: 1.2 Replaces: - Requires: aga,68k Architecture: m68k-amigaos Distribution: anywhere. DroidWars is a realtime strategy action 2 player/cpu game. new: droids get pushed when hit by enemy bullets. added a new cheap droid. "trigger" (in droids section) mouseclick at up left corner quits. blue droids is not more than 3 at once. first aminet version. Introduction ------------ The players takes only a minor part to the game. But that part is the core of planning and strategy. The player is the decision maker, and has a range of different droids that he can transfer into the arena, by simply pressing a number between 0 and 9. The arena is a space like free place, where all the droids can mangle and shoot at eachother. If the arena has only one teams droids, that team will push their winning meter further towards victory. Needless to say, you want to have droids in action all the time, but you only have a limited amount of energy to produce new droids, and every droid has good and bad properties. Thats where the strategy begins. The arena managers have the right to include their own droids as they wish. Especially if they suspect the game will grow towards an end, as they want to entertain the audience as much as possible. These droids are blue of color, and is hostile to both the red and green team. The managers will not want to have more than 3 droids in at once. The blue droids will be turned off quickly if they don't have any hostile droids to fight. usage ----- I advice you to play music in the background, as it multitasks and I haven't included sounds, mainly because I myself listen to music. :) Controls -------- at first you need to decide who should play who. -HUMAN VS HUMAN -HUMAN VS CPU -CPU VS CPU the cpu has different levels. if HUMAN is selected for the LEFT GREEN team, then NUMBER KEYS on the upper left of your keyboard is used. The key left for 1 is used for droid 0. if HUMAN is selected for the RIGHT RED team, then KEYPAD KEYS on the RIGHT of your keyboard is used. keypad number 0 is used for droid 0. mouseclick at up left corner to quit. The droids ---------- All the droids have the same armour and size, but the similarity stops there. note: you don't need to read this, just jump into the game and try them instead. nr: 0: nickname "trigger" is given a random push after it is made. any enemy bullets hitting it will first enable it, and if it gets another hit, that will detonate the droid, blowing many projectiles out in the arena. It drifts away after that. Can be usefull when there is many hostile droids in the arena. these droids were originally not permitted into the arena, "It doesn't have an engine" the management said, when they really just didn't want exploding junk to literate the arena. as a commodation, they are allowed, but will not affect the winning meter, thus doesn't need to be shot. It is unwize to shoot at it. only the blue droids tend to do that. 1: nickname "dumpster" slow. shoots in random, and the bullets are slow. an easy target for the enemy, but its cheap. 2: nickname "decoy" Moves rapidly, wich enables it to better avoid enemy bullets. shoots randomly with double as fast bullets as dumpster. 3: nickname "sniper" quite a skillfull shooter. unfortunately it has the very same engine as dumpster. efficient killing droid, but very vulnerable. 4: nickname "striker" Moves rapidly while shooting against its target. A good fighter, and is able to avoid most bullets. 5: nickname "stabber" Fast moving droid, that lays mine's wherever it goes. one mine equals one shot. mine's will eventually run out of power and vanish if they don't explode into a droid. 6: nickname "assassin" The most skilled shooter, and has an all around usefull engine wich doesn't neccesarily send the droid into a minefield, as those of striker and decoy's tend to do. Where sniper and striker misses by an inch, this droid should hit. 7: nickname "fog" Those droids that gets near this droid, will have a hard time surviving, as it showers itself with unfriendly projectiles. The bullets spawned from this droid has a small engine built inside it. This makes the droid dangerous to the whole arena. 8: nickname "devil" Three round spread shot, and a slightly better speed to bullets and engine from that of striker's makes this the ultimate highspeed fighting droid. its hard to beat the devil. 9: nickname "eraser" Heavy wide spread fire. uses the same engine as that of assassin. one negative thing is that the bullets are a tad slow. "why aim at one, when you can kill them all", the designer said. credits ------- Code: Joar Berntsen Design: Joar Berntsen do you have ideas for new features? do you have designs for new droids? if so, pls pls pls send me a mail! or maybe you are of the type that doesn't take chances or do anything irregular and regret everything you do? "no", you say? ;/ well... prove it then, by sending me that mail! 8D