So, here is the developed version of the game I've been working on for the Commodore VIC-20. It's called Planet X1.
Now, when you start out, you're presented with three little screens. One for your base and two for your tanks. Now,
you can drive your tank around and you can also shoot things such as the street.
Obviously, you can't drive over water nor can you go through brick walls.
By pressing the G key, you can activate the GPS which will show you
where all of your units are. This is handy because it's easy to get lost.
By using the function keys, I can switch to tank 2 and drive around.
Now, there doesn't appear to be any sense of urgency here,
but what you don't see is that there are five enemy bases out there sending evil spiders, which are looking for your base right now.
I'll show you what will happen if you don't do anything.
Yep, here they come. These guys will eat through your walls and destroy your base.
You can try to defend yourself, but at this point in the game it may be too late.
I'm just going to sit here now and let you see what happens.
Well, there went Tank 1.
And the next.
And that's the end of the game.
Okay, let's start over. Now, this time, we really lucked out, and we got place next to a pool of lava.
That's great, because it will protect our base if the spiders walk into the lava it will destroy them.
But be careful you can drive right off into it also, and that's the end of your tank.
I'm going to go ahead and search for the enemy bases.
There's a little bridge crossing the river.
Ah ha! Here's the first enemy base. No spiders in sight so I'll just blow it up.
You can see where the spiders just built a walkway of rubble over the water.
Oh and look, there's one now probably the last one to come out of that base.
We can follow these guys as they're headed right to our base.
Unfortunately, I got too close and one of the spiders got me.
Normally, this would make the game very hard to win now, but since I have that lava protecting me, there's still a good chance.
I'll go out with my other tank. Sure enough, I find and destroy them.
Another interesting thing to point out is that you cannot destroy these bridges or dams created by the spiders. However, you can destroy these wooden bridges.
This is actually left over from when the game was intended to be a two player game.
Anyway, I had planned a lot more things for this game, such as the ability to construct walls, lay mines,
target missiles, and other weapons. Some of that's already working to some extent but I didn't show you here.
I might also add different difficulty levels by having either more interfaces or fewer.
Also, I might port this game to the Commodore 64. The only real advantage the 64 would have is more detail on the graphics.