Oh! my! god! This game is awesome! I tried it right away, and I loved it. If you take this game further, it will be great. The only thing I can't understand is why you have all of these dll files and ocx files in the directory. Are they going to used soon? Other than that, the game is perfect. How did you get the program to generate names that made sense. I played this one game, and the names it generated where so, so, so, inhuman. I would like to know. Plus, what program are you using to write this. Sorry for all of the questions. I am just so excited that we have a new developer in business.

@arqmeister
Thanks for checking out the game! Hope you like it.

@gamedude
I'm really glad you like the game. I have a lot of ideas for expanding it in the future. The dll files and ocx files were included just in case they were needed in the future. I'm going to remove the extras and just include those that are specifically needed in the next release. The name generation is a secret I'm afraid. It's a mix of creative programming and voodoo magic, with a hint of virgin sacrificing tossed in for good measure. lol, actually it's a system Aprone showed me that works really well. All I can say is that you should never run into a situation where you play against two people named the same.

I'm programming this game, and any others I make in the future, in VB6. I originally started as a Java programmer but Aprone converted me to VB6 after talking for a few years. The language is a bit outdated but it's still very useful for making games quickly.

@defender
It's almost nothing like sound RTS. I think the best way to explain the game is to post part of the read me file. If you have any questions after reading it, let me know and I'll do my best to explain further.

General Gameplay

The goal of Audio wars is to take over the map and eliminate all other players. Each round is seperated into two main phases.

Attack Phase. In the Attack Phase, you select the army in one of your controlled zones and send them to attack an empty zone or an enemy zone. If the zone is empty, you will automatically take control of it. If the zone is controlled by an enemy force, your army will fight against theirs. If you win, you will take control of the zone.

Reinforce Phase. In the Reinforce Phase, you will be given Army points to place in your controlled zones. Army Points are awarded based on your biggest chain of controlled zones. For example, if you control 8 zones that are all connected, you will gain 8 Army Points. If, however, you control 8 zones and 6 are connected while the other 2 are not, you will only gain 6 Army Points. Each zone you control can have up to a maximum of 8 Army Points. If you have more Army Points that you can place, they will be stored for use in future rounds.

Hi.
i just tryed this. hm while it isn't my type of thing, i can see why people like it. i just don't like these kind of games. i preofre walking around and shooting or things like that. but great job, on creating your first audiogame!

Hatred. love the game. I like the strategy envolved, it's a nice challenge. As you well know, sound effects will add much to the already fun nature of the game. Nice job so far.

need help with sfx now, or are you good.

I've given the new AI a try and I think it is still pretty similar in difficulty, but now it is definitely scarier.  At least before, once you got used to how it played, you knew you were safe if your land had a stronger army because it wouldn't even attack but now it might still attack you anyway.  Of course that means it is more likely to lose, but I've had times where a 2 attacked my 3 and knocked me down to a 1, and then the AI used his other army of 2 to then take over my 1.  So it makes them seem a bit more organized now which also makes it harder to predict what they will do.  Nice work! 

Hey guys, just a quick update. Well, quick in the sense that I'm rushing to post this as I run out the door to head to work. lol

I added the ability to save and load games so you don't have to finish a full game in a single sitting. I don't know how much it's need right now but I can definitely see it being useful in the future. I also fixed a pesky bug that caused a small delay after you placed your points in the Reinforcement phase. Yay for bug fixes!

Also, I have a question for those of you that have played on the Complex World Map. Do you think that the map is too big? Or do you think there is room for bigger maps? I ask this because I'm not sure how big to make the maps from here on out. I plan to release map packs that have 2 to 4 maps, ranging from small 2 or 3 player maps to giant 8 player maps.  So the question really is, how big is TOO big for a map?

Staindaddict, you extracted it first right?  It's working for me so I'm not sure what would be going wrong.

Sounds like you have an excellent game hre. I just downloaded it, and I'll definitely be taking a look. We were discussing a risk-like game on the Audyssey ist, although we weren't sure how to circumnavigate possible copyright issues. Looks like you did that nicely.

Hey Aprone,

I did extract it first. Not sure why I'm getting this error.

Wow, just notice a HUGE bug that basically trapped you in the Load Game menu if you didn't have a save file. I've uploaded version 1.5 with that and a few more bug fixes. No additions this time around, just pure bug squashing. Please re-download the newer version, it's MUCH more stable than 1.4.