Oh, three games? I could never take on three at a time - I'm busy enough with one! Originally, though, it was supposed to just be a couple of months of me exprimenting with strategy and email-based gaming. Although, I never seem to be able to program anything without trying to make it look and play as well as possible. Bit of a bugger when you just think you're going to knock something up quickly!
I've never played Uprising, but one thing that annoyed me about Battlezone was that it wasn't tactical enough; I usually just re-equipped my tank with bigger guns, grabbed a couple of wingmen and then went all Quake-Man(tm) style. Such a missed opportunity... Although, if you're not in a fast, super-armoured tank and you can't just throw out more units, like in your game, it should be much better! Just make sure you've got good control of troops over long distances, though, otherwise it'll loose a lot of the strategy element.
Syndicate Wars is a pretty big inspiration for my game, since I loved the atmosphere created by the futuristic cities and the endless rain. I'd like to be able to recreate that, but I can't seem to get the lighting right. I'll keep at it and see what can be done, I think.
Admiral, I'd love to discuss your game with you - everybody seems to be trying to make RPG games at the moment and I'm always keen to here what fellow programmers are up to! I would have emailed you about becoming a tester, but I couldn't find your email address anywhere!
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