Commander X16

Making another round of edits...

I will certainly re-review this game shortly, seeing you're making a lot of improvements ?

OK, pushed a pile of updates.

Done, for now.

It's still easy to die... and easy to get overwhelmed.  I might re-visit that... there are 20% fewer monsters, and that didn't seem to hurt the game.  Might do that some more.

At least you won't be surrounded by monsters at the beginning.

There's one emergent strategy I've found helpful: killing a monster when it's on a forest tile will turn the tile clear.  This is a useful trick.

Can you upload a the new version on this forum?  I played the previous one with "try it now" in the browser and found that quite convenient ?

Good idea!

OK, updated.

 

I've made a couple of small updates and brought the version up to "1.1".

First, I re-enabled Dusan's small PSG library.  By adding proper timers, the PSG works ok.  I'm also only using sound when interesting events happen -- i.e. finding things or monster hits.  That makes the pauses permissable.

I tested this version out by running several games in a row.  I did poorly on a few, but then I got some momentum and cleared the field, got the amulet, and escaped with a score in the 600s.  If only I had captured a screen shot of that!