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Alexa Ranks BattleCity at 539,441!

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As of early this morning, Alexa is now ranking the BattleCity website at 539, 441 in the world! This is definitely a great accomplishment considering the website had never ranked below one million before this August!

Alexa is a company which ranks websites based on incoming traffic. Part of the recent jump in our ranking is definitely due to Vindkast who has been running Google Ads for close to two months now! Thanks to him we've seen many newbies entering the battlefield! 

Why haven't overall player numbers increased? Well, we still need to work on our ability to welcome new players to the game. Unfortunately, despite the huge amount of new players downloading and trying the game, only a small percentage have returned. If you happen to see a new player online, try to help that player out so that you can orb him/her hundreds of times in the future, rather than one time now. Think of it as investing in future points! 🙂

So back to Alexa…! How is this good? Well, many advertising companies and advertisers use Alexa as a guage when determining whether or not to advertise on a website or whether or not to allow a website to sign up for an advertising service. If ever we were to reach the top 100,000 websites, there would be tons of new advertising opportunities available to BattleCity which could potentially make the game profitable and allow for more development time! 

And even if no new advertising opportunities unfold, one thing is for certain! We can always argue that BattleCity is Codemallet's most popular game, seeing as Odyssey ranks at 1,161,521 and Spark at  868,081!

How can you help BattleCity rank higher? Download Sparky, the Alexa Toolbar!

Codemallet Game Portal Being Beta Tested

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Codemallet is ReMoTe's company which is currently responsible for bringing the world BattleCity Classic and Odyssey Classic. As some of you may or may not know, there has been mention on the forums for some time about a possible JAVA version of BattleCity to be included in a gaming portal that would become the home for all Codemallet games.  There has also been mention of a third game being in development.

These things are in fact true!

The Codemallet Game Portal has been in development for some time. The third game in development is in fact Spark , which is a free multiplayer action game featuring dueling UFO's! Those who have played the game ARC will surely recognize it 🙂

Spark has just been released for beta testing this month! This is exciting for BattleCity because Spark has been released for testing within the Codemallet Game Portal! Even though Spark is Codemallets third game, it was written in JAVA from the beginning making it compatible with the portal. If you'd like to preview the game portal that BattleCity will eventually be included in, you can download it to help with beta testing here .

While there is still no estimate on when BattleCity will make it's way into the portal, things are moving forward and the future looking bright! 

Cambridge by Makaveli

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Congraulations to Makaveli, who has one yet ANOTHER design competition.  His design has received 50 percent of the votes for the competition (out of 6 contenders).  Here is his most excellent design:

Here is the decoder for everyone's entries:

#1 – morsmorde

#2 – makaveli

#3 – alex2121

#4 – caezar

#5 – nightwish

#6 – darkluigi

Surge's original thoughts on all your designs:

Design #1
Overall a very nicely designed city. It has many exits for your defenders and turret factories are well-placed, but could be done a bit better. The easiest way to orb this city would be from the east or west. Bombing a couple of houses and just shooting the turrets next to the walls on the CC, using the researches as fire-cover, will get you orbed by a single attacker who has some skills.


Design #2
This is a very tightly-packed city. Reminds me a bit of Weebo's Buenos Aires. One advantage of cities like this are that you can have more turrets on the outer perimeter of your city. One disadvantage? The turret placement on the inside of the city will kill your commandos. Remember…keeping your defenders alive is the best defense!

Design #3
This is another prime-example of bad turret placement inside the city. These will kill your own defenders, leaving your city bombed to the ground by attackers. Any good attacker will use this to their advantage. The easiest way to orb this city is from the east, taking out the plasma research and running into the green factory to shoot the walls.

Design #4
Only three exits for your defenders to get out and shoot the attackers bombs, and not very well placed either. By the time someone lays a bomb on the outer-wall, its already too late to shoot it. Hopefully the mayor can build as fast as his outer-walls are going down. A single bomb can take out plasmas/greens/sleepers all in one!

Design #5
This city will be attacked from the east and west every time. Bomb two buildings and the walls are easily accessible for shooting….and not covered by any turrets either! Also, another tightly-packed city with a lot of friendly fire from your own turrets. Don't think about surviving much with this one.

Design #6
The greens factory is far too accessable for an attacker. Try putting your turrets in different places and getting better angles for them. This city is a perfect target for your typical "suicide bomber". You can get away with a lot with one bomb run.

Nice work! Before you claim your prize, did you know there is a BattleCity League Carnage every Thursday Night at 10pm EST? For the last three weeks, over 30 players have shown up for the battle! Be there next thursday, everyone can take part and there are great prizes to be won, including up to $25 from the BC Store!

Check out the BCL Standings

Check out the BCL Schedule and Results

CDC: Cambridge Due Tuesday!!

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Because of lack of submissions, I have extended the CDC for Cambrdige until Tuesday, August 21st, at Midnight.  Please get those submissions in!!  We are counting on you all to submit designs and vote.  After all, you can win a free city rental, which is worth BCD or actual $$! 

 

Start Designing!!!