Cratered v2

This may possibly be the longest time between profile posts on the same game (well kind of the same game). The last one was in 2001, and I wasn't using torque, and the game was about boats on water.
www.garagegames.com/blogs/1488/745. I'm even more surprised GG still has it in storage. :)

Fast forward 6 years, (and lots of other things in between) I finally got back in to it and realized it would fairly easy to put together the kind of top down CTF game I wanted with an engine like Torque. I figured it's ideally suited for a CTF shooter, even though it would be completely top down. Getting it top down and the aiming to work well was a bit of a pain in the ass. The rest was pretty straight forward.

Rather than do a long development cycle. I'm opting for a fast turn around, continuously playable game. Players may not like it that it's things change on them, but I think for these kind of games it's pretty important to get player feedback early on. This way if we're going down the wrong track we'll know right away.

So things are always working. So far the server isn't very busy but at least it hasn't crashed which is always nice. :)

The critical part is that the game includes an auto-updater. Any changes made are downloaded by the player on startup which makes things useful for an online title, even a small one. I don't think I could ever go back to the classic installer mechanism.

Enough talk, want to try it out? Download it here. www.cratered.com Just announced so it's kind of quiet, tell all your friends, family, enemies, your pets etc. You get the idea.

Right now, Kork's still in there but we have a new character in the wings. Mandatory eye candy continue.