Over the past week and a half I’ve been without internet or a working PC, and painful as that was it I still managed to get a bunch of work done on Tower Storm. The biggest improvement is in Bot AI, they now build all towers and minion types and have a more sane algorithm […]
You can see our entry here: https://gameon.mozilla.org/en-US/entries/tower-storm/ It’s exciting times in the world of Browser based multiplayer gaming. It’s so awesome seeing big companies like Mozilla and Google get behind indie developers with competitions, prizes and publicity. Best of luck to everyone who’s entering and I can’t wait to play all the games! If you know […]
Over the last week (and a bit) I’ve been working heavily on improving the servers performance and stability. Previously after games had ended many variables and code would still be running in the background causing the servers to get slower and slower over time until eventually they ran out of memory and died. This issue […]
Not much has changed in the gameplay department over the past few days as this morning I noticed the server was at 100% cpu load and almost all ram was consumed. So I’ve been profiling and debugging the server fixing memory leaks and speed issues with the game to try and get it lower as […]
Bots are live! Sure they don’t do much yet, they only build 3 towers then spam you with a basic minion whenever they can until either you or they die. But since when has that ever stopped me releasing something (scrappy is good right? ;)) It should be fairly obvious how to add them to […]
TL;DR – Servers are fine, I need more time to get bots going. Today I realized to make the bots work they’re going to have to load up a copy of the game code and run it as if they were a real player to make decisions. I was going to do a fuzzy simulation […]
Yarr! From the briney depths of the labs of coding we bring to you the ability to set your name and team. To set your name simply double click on it in game and an edit box will appear, once you click away or hit enter your name will be changed. There are 2 teams, […]
It is awesome. Bots are coming along nicely, they currently connect to games, build 3 towers and send a minion… then do nothing for the rest of the game. The core is there though now it’s time to give them some actual AI. In other news Tower Storm has it’s first fan that isn’t one […]
Over the past few days I’ve been fixing some bugs with the game including one funny one where modern architects towers actually boosted their opponents towers too! Alongside this I’ve been working on one secret feature and also adding bots to the game so that you can have a play by yourself even if friends […]
Tooltips are now in game so you can hover over any of your towers or minions and see exactly how much they cost and what they do. If you’re still confused or frustrated by any aspects of the game let me know and I’ll try and improve the UI as best I can. I want […]