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Another enjoyable time waster.

Post by DeVice »

Shame on me, going to advertize another game here :lol:

Go give a try to Scorched Earth 3D.

Tis basically an artillery/economy between rounds game, based on an old 2D game (prolly one of the older games i ever played on a PC).

This time, the 3D version kept a very enjoyable gameplay (opposed to disappointings 3Disations of worms or lemmings).

Tis quite funny how this game has common features with A Tractor : Its main developper probably drink whisky (did not ask him, but he's from scotland ;) ), it all happens on islands, you run weird vehicles sending sicko weapons at each other...

Interesting points to notice : Free, opensource, run on many different OSes.

Perhaps even have some good ideas to steal there for A Tractor... (I love the realtime dynamic landscape thing !)

Enuf advertising - i'll cross advertise for a Tractor in their forums to stay fair :)
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heh, devi, me & fooli played that game endlessly for about 3 months on the amiga. Tis a classic indeed.

We even had a lil theme song we used to sing when playing it. It believe it went

"tanks, tanks, scorchy scorchy tanks, scorchy scorchy scorchy tanks" quite a lot. something like that. :shock:

We were very very tiny at the time of course :)
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Ahah, just imagined a lil Fooli and a lil Mit :lol:
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my friend jon and i are also huge fans of the old 2d version. we've got a clone of the old atari one.

we can't sing in 8-bit, so we never got around to making a song :(
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