Here's my contest entry so far.
Toy Wars
A simple, easy to play turn based strategy game.
I've been working on the map system. The plans right now are up to 5 players, with each being selectable as AI or a player. Teams cannot be allies. If you want to be allies, then be the same team.
Each unit can move one square, attack, or use an item. An order is in the form of a direction only. Teams move all their units simultaneously, so a turn may have you making upwards of 20 actions.
Each unit represents six soldiers, each with their own health bar and attack. Attacks are non-random in terms of damage, but random in terms of which soldier they hit. Thus, battles, while predictable and fair, are still never quite the same. (One team loses a soldier early, dealing less damage)
Shelters restore each soldier left in the unit by 1 HP, consuming one use in the process.
There will also be various forms of ranged weapons including lasers (straight line away from user), cannons (explosion away from user), and other items.
Other non-unit items include breakable and non-breakable barricades, one-time health packs, etc. (I am taking suggestions as long as they're reasonable)
The editor is already mostly finished. Changing a unit type takes some time, unfortunately, but I can't think of a way to make it any faster than it is. (it already does dirty unit checks so it doesn't redraw the whole map) Changing health is much faster.
The map generator is extremely simple right now. It generates random numbers and places them in the map if they're valid. Health is always 999999 (full) for soldiers, and a random int from 5 to 15 for houses.
I figure with 5 teams and a fair amount of terrain, the replay value should be quite high.
The screenie is a little slow, since it's running in an 83+ on the emu. On an 84+ it runs a fair amount faster (but never as fast as I'd like: The cursor is reasonable instead of unbearable, but not really fast)
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