I’ve fixed up race selection so you can now play the Shadow or the Modern Architects along side the current druids race. The Shadow are an assassin like race, their towers deal tons of damage very quickly but don’t have many special abilities. The Modern Architects are a support race, their towers give auras to […]
It’s been a long and grueling 4 days but finally I’m proud to announce that Tower Storm now supports reconnecting to games. So if the game ever gets laggy, stops working or disconnects simply refresh the page and you’ll be right back into the game in under 10 seconds (hopefully… depending on your computer speed…). […]
I’m currently coding a system so you can rejoin a game any time and you’ll automatically load up the current game state and continue playing if the game de-syncs or your browser crashes. It’ll also pave way for the possibility of a jump in jump out mode where you could join games half way through, […]
I’ve had a few players wondering WTF is going on when jumping into Tower Storm for the first time and unfortunately there aren’t many instructions or helpers yet. So I’ve put together a gameplay overview page temporarily which you can view at: http://www.towerstorm.com/play/ If you still have questions you can contact us at any of […]
My focus for the next few days is to get the game as stable as possible so everyone can enjoy full games without frustrating disconnects. I’m also adding the ability to reconnect to games if you disconnect or your browser crashes etc, not quite done yet. I noticed the server was down this morning, seems […]
I’ve set up a chat room for anyone who’d like real time support or would like to organise a game against each other or the developers (it’s ok we’re really not that good at TS). You can connect to it by: Downloading an IRC Client, I recommend mIRC if you’ve never used IRC before. Clicking […]
Managed to have a streak of luck this morning and by cleaning up the network code the mysterious packets being lost bug appears to have been vanquished! EDIT: Encountered it again š Not as prevailant any more but there is yet more work to be done. So go ahead and play some games, it’s fun […]
Tonight I’ve been debugging and profiling the game using chrome and ImpactJS’s built in performance tools. It seems Firefox v17 is currently over twice as fast as Chrome v24 and the biggest performance issue is garbage collection which is taking up over 90% of the game time. I’m still not sure if this can be […]
Checking on the game 24 hours later I’m amazed the game hasn’t consumed all the memory of the server yet, it has quite a few memory leaks currently. No update today, took the girlfriend out on an adventure instead š Will be working on performance improvements, tooltips and fixing bugs tomorrow morning.
… but unfortunately seems to crash about 30 seconds into the game on average. To create a game go to:Ā jed.towerstorm.com:15000/game/join/XXXĀ then to invite friends send them a link to the new page that you get forwarded to. Team selection is still broken and there aren’t any tooltips but basically towers are cheapest from left to right […]