Game Of Bases

Goba is a remake of a classic game Flash Attack.

Game idea

There are (at most) 4 players. Each player has a base and four tanks. The tanks may move, lay mines and fire at other tanks. Annihilate the enemies!

Screenshots

Download

Binaries are available for Linux (Compiled in Ubuntu 6.10). Source is available, too. The software is written in Objective Caml, and has successfully been compiled with these dependencies:

Ocaml 3.09.2 (earlier versions probably work too). Available in Ubuntu as package ocaml-nox .
SDL 1.2. Available in Ubuntu as packages libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev .
OcamlSDL 0.7.2. Available in Ubuntu as package libsdl-ocaml-dev .
Sexplib 2.8.2 (earlier versions probably work too). Not available in Ubuntu or Debian.

Change log

Version 431

Fixed network jerkiness-effect
Added (some) tile graphics
Better internals (bitmap composition, uniform object identification for map elements and objects, better extracting and feeding back of state for objects, dropped redundant protocol messages..)
Flashing mines (randomly)
Bigger tank views, smaller base view

Version 397

Better graphics
Fixed bug that caused the game to increase cpu usage continuously
Fixed some write error cases in server
Apparently introduced some jerkiness to network play..
Maps are now generated on server startup, instead of being loaded from map.txt (map.txt-support is gone at the moment)

Playing

First you start the server. It starts to listen in port 61753. The option 'Start server' in the game actually does nothing :).

Second you start the game. If your host doesn't match the ones hardcoded in the game (localhost and jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi) you'll need to enter the host name in the command line, as the first argument.

Now you're set to go! F1 provides keyboard help. The game doesn't yet say who's won or died, so you'll need to figure that out yourself..

Erkki Seppälä

Last modified: Fri Mar 16 10:32:33 EET 2007