Moonbase Commander Console

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To Frogboy, Cari and all you good guys at Stardock and GPG :

Once upon a time, quite a few years ago, I used to play a small fun game called Moonbase Commander.

It never acquired a large community - actually, it won "best game nobody plays" 2 years in a row. We were some 10 hardcore fans, down to about 5 the 2nd year. Huge fun for many many hours.

Anyway, why am I telling this here : We played completely p2p.

After suffering frustrations with GameSpy Arcade the game was supposed to be played on, one of the players ( "Mycroft" was his nik ) wrote a small matchmaking program. Another ( "SpacemanSpiff", who was also the best player ) wrote a map randomizer, and together they put up a program they called Console ( 156KB - I still have it ). We would hook up on Messengers like ICQ, one of us would host, the Console generated a code, the host player copy-pasted it to us by messenger, the others would copy-paste it into their Console, and here we go. Worked great, few fails.

Granted, the game was turn-based small game. Nevertheless, the connection worked quite well, 1v1 or teams.

So I'm thinking, if one fan can write a decent matchmaking program in a few days' work, maybe you guys are going at it too complicated, with RAKNET and whatever ?

Just a thought :)

Cheers !

demigod
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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Ah moonbase commander.

Man I loved that game, I really wish they had a PsP version or the game had made it to a console as a downloadable (Stupid infrograms never did *get* that game).

 

-Jara

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

What was your nik Jara ? I was Charon7.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

It's been so long, I honestly forget what name I used when I played ;-)

Asangar?

 

 

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Ah, Jordan fan ? Too bad what happened to him... the books up to the 5th were great, and downhill from there.

:')

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

Yes, a decent matchmaking program.  A decent, manually-run, audience-of-less-than-five matchmaking program that even with the same five users and manual control still managed to fail sometimes.

 

Tell you what, how about YOU go write a matchmaker for Demigod.  It'll only take a few days' work, of course.  Don't know how to program?  Well the project is apparently so easy that it should only take you a week or so of online tutorials before you can write this matchmaker.

 

We'll check back with you in a week.  Work hard!