Has anyone here downloaded Matt Burch's Exobattle? What's it like?

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I redefined the science of radio astronomy, making nobel prize winners
question their notions of reality. Oh, but I disgress...You play Sorry,
I play Chess. King's pawn to B3, checkmate, go get some percosets."

Fun, but I've never gotten a chance to do net play. Maybe we can challenge each other one day?

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Fortress of Die Nacht: An upcoming game from Aviary Productions.
www.aviaryproductions.f2s.com/downloads/Fortressd2.0.0.sit

It would be quite a neat game if it had been finished. There is a group at www.exobattle.com working to fully complete Exobattle. However, they're doing it without Matt's blessing, and from what I've seen of it, I can tell why.

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I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid... and I went ahead anyway. -Crow T. Robot
Just Games, because wasting time is a beautiful thing

Heh, they are cheeky monkeys. I remember Matt saying he had sent them an email to change the name. They must have changed it to "Exo-Battle" from Exobattle.

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Fortress of Die Nacht: An upcoming game from Aviary Productions.
www.aviaryproductions.f2s.com/downloads/Fortressd2.0.0.sit

Indeed. Their page says it was changed "to avoid copyright issues." If they're so concerned about copyright issues, one has to wonder why every spacecraft in their "concept art" section is a bad model of something from Star Trek or Star Wars (the Jem'Hadar fighter with the head of a Romulan Warbird is particularly disturbing). The whole site gives me the impression that it's of a bunch of kids posing as professional game developers.

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I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid... and I went ahead anyway. -Crow T. Robot
Just Games, because wasting time is a beautiful thing

Great game, really. Even without using the multiplayer, it's a lot of fun to just fly around attacking lots of the drones at once. Net play is damn good too, my dad brings a spare computer home from work during his holidays, and I have multiple network games, and several crossover cables of varying length

Anyway, I recommend that you download it and have a go. It's worth it, really.



Really? I was just about to click the link and check it out, but from the sound, I guess you've saved me from useless bandwith consumption.

Why did Matt stop developing Exobattle? Yes, I know, Nova is really important to him at the moment (and to me!) but does he ever plan to do anything more with it?

Just wondering.....

-Andiyar

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"Any good that I may do here, let me do now, for I may not pass this way again"

My god-the intro is 15 MB. Do they assume everyone has a t3? I think we can rule out web page design and common sense from their possible assets.

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It's not that great, either .... It's a lot of generic good vs. evil junk scrolling by, then the Enterprise flying over an ocean, then Darth Vader rising from the water. It would have been really funny, if it was a spoof on purpose.


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[This message has been edited by shayborg (edited 09-04-2001).]

Exobattle is awesome....though mindless. I can play it for long periods of time without food or drink. I only wish it were finished!

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I downloaded the source. I thought about trying to find where the missiles were and giving me a huge number of them.

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Fortress of Die Nacht: An upcoming game from Aviary Productions.
Go take a look!