Sentience: VB Game (comments please)

[Arbiter]

Hullo y'all!

Many moons have passed since this thread was first started and a lot of the first few pages are largely irrelevant now. Feel free to skip to the last page to catch up on the late breaking news and bug reports...

My partner in crime, Behemoth, and I have been plugging away for the last few months writing a turn based strategy game.

It's got to the point now where, although it's not fully functional, we think we may benefit from other peoples views on it.

We'd like as many people as possible to download this and have a play around, then let us know what you think.

So far, there isn't a huge amount of practical things you can do, but we could do with comments on the layout, features and earth shattering bugs in the game.

There is a very limited amount of combat working, research, loads of screens and fiddly things.

To move units around, simply click on them and use the numeric keypad to move them, to attack an enemy unit, just try walking over it. All units currently have infinite move (for testing).

Play with as many clicky things as you can, in fact, go on a clicking frenzy.

Tip - to explore the whole map automatically, click on a unit and enter '@' .

Please reply with as many constructive criticisms as you can - we're seriously trying to write a half decent game here (in VB as well!!!)

You'll need the VB6 runtimes (you all should have them...) and DirectX7 (for the sound). You shouldn't require anything else. Please see the text file with the zips for installation instuctions.

Here's the link:

www.btinternet.com/~bstap

Thanks guys!