Pock Tanks v1.2

[wildgoosespeeder]

Do you think that Mike has spent more time on Pocket Tanks than Super DX-Ball? I mean Super DX-Ball hasn't had an update since 11-8-04 and Pocket Tanks has had 2 updates in less than a year! Neon Wars has been around since 10-30-06 so it really doesn't matter if it hasn't had an update. I don't mind that Pocket Tanks has had 2 updates in less than a year, but it seems ridiculous to have 2 updates in such a short time than working on an update for Super DX-Ball that hasn't had an update for over 2 years.

[Zwaken]

If I remember correctly, the next thing there is supposed to be is a DX-Ball update.

[Mike W.]

It took me 11 months to create the the first release of Pocket Tanks. That included 60 weapons and two separate versions of the game... shareware and deluxe.

Super DX-Ball was in development for 2 years, and that included all the new boards plus the 2 separate versions.

If you were to add up all the time I spend making the 1.1 and 1.2 updates for Pocket Tanks, that would add up to about another 6 to 8 months of development time. If you throw in the time I've spent 'trying' to add network play to Pocket Tanks, that would probably be another 4 to 6 months of coding. (that is just an estimate, since I hate thinking about the how much time was lost on the network code)

Roughly...
Pocket Tanks = ~2 years
Super DX-Ball = ~2 years

If you throw in the expansion packs, the numbers look more like this:
Pocket Tanks = ~3.0 years
Super DX-Ball = ~2.2 years

Moving forward... network play is seeing some great progress and I have plenty of updates for Pocket Tanks planned. But to bring balance to the force, I hope to get the opportunity to update Super DX-Ball and make some expansions in the next few months.

And then there is the 'new' game that we are designing now.
(time flies when you enjoy what you do!)

[Slade]

I just know that Mike likes pocket tanks alot.

[Everlast]

What about Neon Wars? But I'm surprised that it took that long to create Pocket Tanks, but I guess it makes sense since BlitWise compared to other companies doesn't have a lot of people coding. But you don't have to have a lot of people to make a great game.

[Slade]

Mike, could you give us blitters an idea of the kind of game you're going to make?

[Brian]

Where is WiM when you need him? Anyway...here's a post about it:

Mike discusses future plans.

[endgame]

I'd like to think that sounds like a "Pocket Tanks: OMEGA" or something like that.

[Slade]

"Pocket Tanks: rise of the Earth Mover"

I dunno. Is Mike going to ask for title ideas...?

[Brian]

No, he isn't.