Small Basic TeamChallenge - Tower Defense Game

Small Basic community member Timo Sö had a winning idea: to start a TeamChallenge competition. The challenge was to create a "Tower Defense Game" in one week. They developed their games from 12/3/2010 to 12/10/2010. Here is Timo's first Forum thread on the topic.

Here are the teams:

  

1. Tank Rampage Team:  Math Man, Timo Sö, (3rd person dropped out)

Find the code here |  Download the .RAR file

Math Man did 99% of the code. Timo created the graphics and did some small bug fixes.

  

2. Tankinator Team:  Zock77, Cobra355, (3rd person dropped out)

Find the code here | Download the .RAR file

The game cannot be played in the gallery list. You must download it and play it locally.

Zock did 100% of the coding. Cobra helped make the turret graphics. Zock was the game designer, and Cobra had some gameplay input.

To make the graphics, they used Gimp. They made the corners transparent: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Transparent-Image-Using-Gimp

   

Ready to vote for your favorite game?

Vote Here

On that forum thread, reply with your input on which game you think is the best! The score is currently 4 to 0!

Thanks to all of the TeamChallenge members! We'll definitely see more of these in the future (Timo and Zock are already planning one for January)! You can track all the action in the Small Basic forum. I'll make the current TeamChallenge threads sticky.

 

What's your high score? Comment your answer below!

   - Tall Basic Ed

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 11, 2012
  WinZip is one way to extract .RAR files: download.cnet.com/.../3000-2250_4-10003164.html

• Anonymous
  December 11, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 11, 2012
  Ed, not Nonki's topic but Timo's.  :-)

• Anonymous
  December 11, 2012
  Nonki, Thanks! I fixed that.

• Anonymous
  December 11, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 11, 2012
  Nice Ed! The current vote is 4:0 for Tankinator. Thanks that you remembered my idea! What was the result of your game? My best highscore is arond 15.000 points. :)

• Anonymous
  December 12, 2012
  Is that 15,000 or 15.000?

• Anonymous
  December 12, 2012
  Ah sry I mean 15000.

• Anonymous
  December 12, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 12, 2012
  well I made there health increase accelerate to the point where every round they may get better by 100000 every time.

• Anonymous
  December 12, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 12, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 12, 2012
  Sweet!! I will try to and make the scores more realistic.

• Anonymous
  December 13, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 13, 2012
  It gets the score from the milliseconds that have elapsed since the beginning of the game. and multiplying it by the kills.

• Anonymous
  December 13, 2012
  Zock, Cool. I think the score system works well. Also, there's no problem with a game taking a day or two. So the challenge is fine. I listed some ideas for features to expand, and one is better performance. But overall it's super fun. Thanks!

• Anonymous
  December 14, 2012
  I will try to upgrade those :}

• Anonymous
  December 14, 2012
  We might make a version 1 (it's about 0.5 because of the bugs) of Tank Rampage if people are interested.

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2012
  Math Man, that would be cool. Let us know. Thanks!

• Anonymous
  December 18, 2012
  I updated the Code Link for Tank Rampage with this one: smallbasic.com/.../program The new download was already replaced on TechNet Gallery. There's another reason to use TechNet Gallery... you never have to have a new URL or list code when you update a game. Thanks!

• Anonymous
  December 22, 2012
  Hey guys!!!! I finished Tankinator version 0.02!!!! I have info for it here: social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../54df50a6-91c5-43ee-b10a-9217ddf3427a Be sure to check it out!!! Thanks!

• Anonymous
  February 27, 2013
  And here's Tankinator version 0.03: blogs.msdn.com/.../tankinator-ver-0-03-small-basic-featured-program.aspx

• Anonymous
  September 17, 2013
  cn you write the listing

• Anonymous
  August 02, 2015
  Yo, I'm not sure what the listing is. Can you ask in the Small Basic forum? social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../threads Thanks!