Steambirds - on Armor Games

[pianobar]

http://armorgames.com/play/5426/steambirds

Anyone else seen this one? I've been enjoying it this afternoon, thought the rest of you might as well...

It's a top-down turn-based flight combat game where you plot your move and the weapon fire is based off the firing arcs that become available. As you get further in the game different special abilities are unlocked. [edited to include description]

[Toolian]

Posted this on the axis and allies forum last night

reminds me a bit of Wings of War

[blackbrunswicker]

Well, this wasted an hour and a half of my life. Curse you pianobar! XD

[Istal Devalis]

Discovered this this morning.  Been spending most of the morning playing it.

[ColBosch]

This gives me Ideas.

[pianobar]

You too huh? I think yours will be more impressive, since your Ideas are capitalized.

But yes...it does make the mind wander.

[Worktroll]

Yup ... I can see a version of that , top-down view, with front/end turrets and side guns of various sizes, firing as they bear and come into range ... it'd just need skinning, very little development (i'd hope)

W.

[pianobar]

If one of our members can do it, that'd be awesome and is why I wanted to make sure I linked to it from here to get the minds turning. I'm more hardware, with a dabbling in spreadsheets. Beyond the occasional Excel formulas I can't code for anything, haha.

[ColBosch]

It's not quite that simple, Worktroll, but with a bit of work it'd be a pretty accurate online version of Leviathans that'd be dead simple to play. I showed my roommate Steambirds and she figured it out within seconds...although, granted, I have played Levs with her.

Indeed, I may appropriate this concept myself and twist it to my own nefarious ends. Moo hoo ha ha ha, etc.

[Istal Devalis]

The guns are a bit TO accurate now for a proper conversion, but it could work.  As is, I wish the game would show the actual firing angles and gun ranges in some way rather then me having to rely on my ever increasingly faulty memory for it.

[Worktroll]

It's not quite that simple, Worktroll, but with a bit of work it'd be a pretty accurate online version of Leviathans that'd be dead simple to play. I showed my roommate Steambirds and she figured it out within seconds...although, granted, I have played Levs with her.

Indeed, I may appropriate this concept myself and twist it to my own nefarious ends. Moo hoo ha ha ha, etc.

I'd love to see it ... be sure to allow for squadron formations - tag ships to "follow the leader", and it would be very simple to handle massed battles.

W

[Tonbo Karasu]

Have you seen Gratuitous Space Battles?  Admittedly that's more about designing, since there's not interaction once a battle starts.

[Lord Cameron]

http://armorgames.com/play/5426/steambirds

Anyone else seen this one? I've been enjoying it this afternoon, thought the rest of you might as well...

It's a top-down turn-based flight combat game where you plot your move and the weapon fire is based off the firing arcs that become available. As you get further in the game different special abilities are unlocked. [edited to include description]

Well that was far too addictive.... 

[Toolian]

http://armorgames.com/play/5426/steambirds

Anyone else seen this one? I've been enjoying it this afternoon, thought the rest of you might as well...

It's a top-down turn-based flight combat game where you plot your move and the weapon fire is based off the firing arcs that become available. As you get further in the game different special abilities are unlocked. [edited to include description]

Well that was far too addictive.... 

I'm just glad they did not make a online player vs player option. Otherwise I would not stop playing. Except for internet porn.








I'm joking....

 



A little bit


 



ewwwwwwwww

[pianobar]

Well that was far too addictive.... 

And you caught the harder "special" levels accessible from the main menu, too...right? hahah