Allas Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 I prepared a video of this strategy game. You can find he complete version as a member of ABBUC club or buying the ABBUC magazine. Otherside you have to wait until November when the game will be launched for free. It took me 8 months to developed and I finished just at time. Is a sequel of MULE game, and every metch take a long time, so on the video only show some seconds. Thanks Squivel for the music and Cybernoid for the technical help on critical stages. Mule Wars video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pps Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Wow, that looks interesting. Can´t wait for the magazine anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Wow, that looks interesting. Can´t wait for the magazine anymore Let me start saying: it looks very good. You've did a nice job on that. Especially the map looks very good. (The characters are a little bit too old-school PM graphics IMO, but ok they are still cool) I don't like mule. I never like games like that. So that is my problem ofcourse, but besides that: nice to see you made something new for a8. And I think it is good idea to release such teasers. I think more people should make such movies for their products! Keep doing the great work. Marius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Fandal_ Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Wow! Congratulations!!!!! F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Nice looking game screen Allas. Looks like you're using some "Risk" there. One of my all-time favorites. Can't wait to check it out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Great Work Allas. Risk-type games are one of my favourites. I can't wait for this game to be released. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classics Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 That looks fantastic, I can't wait to play it! Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Well, I never owned / played MULE (unbelievable eh?) but I did play Lords of Conquest (owned the original disk and manual from EA) for a while. Hopefully Mule Wars is better than that... Cannot comment on Colonial Conquest (SSI) though... Besides, the game RISK exists (afaik) only as an unfinished prototype. But there is also a text-only version available, which I find quite playable (of course only if you know Risk and its layout of continents and countries). This text version appeared in the german diskmagazine Diskline and also uses german language (and abbreviations)... -Andreas Koch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 I usually dont (dang apostraphe has been hijacked by Firefox s "quick find") get too excited about homebrews but this one... wow. I love MULE and will be looking very forward to this. Just curious, will it have AI players like the original? ~telengard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 So, there looks to be fighting and stuff. Is there any development and/or resource management? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allas Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 Thanks for the words. As all we can see on the video is a Risk-type game. Maybe someone knows a game called Dice wars, well... it's based on that. It's designed for 1-7 human players. So, there are IA for enemies turns. But the addiction of the game increase a lot with human truces, betrayals, etc This game was difficult to represent on screen due to the low amount of colors that Atari graphics modes have. So, most of the time I waste designing the appropriate method to display until 9 colors on map screen. At least on my NTSC machine I'm satisfied with the results, I never got many info about how could it be on PAL monitors, but I'll know soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Looks colourful- I counted at least 6 on a line. I had an idea years ago for a Mule sequel - it would have been similar to the original except with extra stuff like satellites that could generate power, and the ability to defend against pirates pillaging stuff. Really, there is a distinct lack of resource management type games (or, the ones I like at least). Aside from Mule, about the only ones I played a lot were Millenium 2.2 and Megalomaniac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almost Rice Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 How are the numbers for each country calculated. I can't tell from the map. The engine looks like Lords of Conquest. It would be fun to have a LoC game with MULE type resource gathering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 good work! congrats! for a mule fan as myself is great to see spin-off from of it. good luck in abbuc contest. cheers, Devwebcl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allas Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 (edited) Thanks again. Yes, when I started to define how it could be the engine map, I remember map graphics of Lord of Conquest. I never played LOF before, but in his time impress me the graphics because the good quality of draws on text mode. I used Envision tool to generate something similar, but with some problems because ground needs to represent 7 players on screen. Some chars are created at the fly in the game. I had take a time to think about other external variations that affect the game. But, always I finished thinking that it should ruins the fun. Maybe things like that should be taken with more time and careful planning. (at least 2 years ) Edited September 4, 2007 by Allas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Looks nice - I can't wait to try the game. Stephen Anderson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybernoid Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 Thanks Squivel for the music and Cybernoid for the technical help on critical stages. No problem. Happy to help, besides I thought you were working on a Mule based strategy game so I made sure to debug and respond quickly to see this game work! Great job!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimsterAA Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Nothing further on this topic? I'd love to see this sequel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Nothing further on this topic? I'd love to see this sequel! http://atari.limitevisual.com/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urborg Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Great game, but a bit too slow. Nice graphics and concept. If it only works faster it could be a really big hit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimsterAA Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Is this the final version - or is any more refining being done with this one? Thanks... --Timster-- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allas Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 The final version have 9 levels, and have some important changes and adds. The work is very slow because i'm working on 3 games at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machf Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 (edited) The final version have 9 levels, and have some important changes and adds. The work is very slow because i'm working on 3 games at the same time. Wow, I didn't know you were still programmming on the Atari 8-bits to this date... nice tribute to M.U.L.E., should show it to IAQ some time... I think you may like to know that several years ago, I uploaded a disk image of the (never released) Informática Creativa Diskette #1, with permission from IAQ. It included some of your programs too. You can find it here: http://www.umich.edu/~archive/atari/8bit/Magazines/ I had been waiting for your game "ACCIÓN" to be published with issue #3 back then, but that never happened... I remember playtesting it for a while at IAQ's all this time ago. (BTW, don't know if you heard, IAQ's mother sadly passed away this tuesday...) Edited June 15, 2008 by machf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allas Posted June 16, 2008 Author Share Posted June 16, 2008 (edited) The final version have 9 levels, and have some important changes and adds. The work is very slow because i'm working on 3 games at the same time. Wow, I didn't know you were still programmming on the Atari 8-bits to this date... nice tribute to M.U.L.E., should show it to IAQ some time... I think you may like to know that several years ago, I uploaded a disk image of the (never released) Informática Creativa Diskette #1, with permission from IAQ. It included some of your programs too. You can find it here: http://www.umich.edu/~archive/atari/8bit/Magazines/ I had been waiting for your game "ACCIÓN" to be published with issue #3 back then, but that never happened... I remember playtesting it for a while at IAQ's all this time ago. (BTW, don't know if you heard, IAQ's mother sadly passed away this tuesday...) Thanks, I founded a year ago the Creative disk image, it surprise me and give some good regards. But it would be nice to view the scanned magazine on internet, because I lost my own collection. Just I restarted working on Atari, doing a reprogramming of ACCION, and it should be easy to find the executable on Atarimania web site. I think I met you, some years ago, on a Star Trek Club. I never suspected you are a Atari enthusiast too. However, is good to know a Peruvian interested on Atari computers still. I didn't know about IAQ mother's, it's a pity, I hope God give him enough strength to go ahead, really hard moments. I know IAQ have unpublished Atari programs by his own work, it would be a great idea if he would interested on organize some of them to publish on Atari community. If you have some programs, don't wait, release them. I can help with my computer and accessories to pass the diskettes files to PC files. Don't let the programs die! Regards Edited June 16, 2008 by Allas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machf Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Thanks, I founded a year ago the Creative disk image, it surprise me and give some good regards. But it would be nice to view the scanned magazine on internet, because I lost my own collection. I'll ask IAQ about that when I see him... maybe this week. Although I believe he's still selling them as "collector's issues" nowadays (at least, the few remaining Atari Creativo #0 ones). From the later issues of Informática Creativa (#1&2) he had several issues lying around, I believe that was one of the reasons #3 never got published (too few sales). Later he started publishing the Sugoi anime magazine, which is still around (latest issue had just been published last week). Just I restarted working on Atari, doing a reprogramming of ACCION, and it should be easy to find the executable on Atarimania web site. I think I met you, some years ago, on a Star Trek Club. I never suspected you are a Atari enthusiast too. However, is good to know a Peruvian interested on Atari computers still. I didn't realize we had met there... I would have recognized your name if I heard it. Same to you. I didn't know about IAQ mother's, it's a pity, I hope God give him enough strength to go ahead, really hard moments. I know IAQ have unpublished Atari programs by his own work, it would be a great idea if he would interested on organize some of them to publish on Atari community. If you have some programs, don't wait, release them. I can help with my computer and accessories to pass the diskettes files to PC files. Don't let the programs die! I'll try to hook up my Pentium 3 (that one still has a 5.25" FDD and the needed programs to read DD Atari diskettes). In the meantime, I still have some on my old page: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2645/atari.html http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2645/A8/ Regards Likewise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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