Announcements

There will be a Wall Wars event beginning at 11 am eastern on Saturday September 15, 2007. (This Saturday)

Depending on the number of people that show up we will be able to run this for quite some time and we may be able to have a small tournament.

Any questions, please ask.

The objective is to destroy the enemies 5 walls while protecting you own. You may take turrets, plasmas, and sleepers into enemy territory or use them in your own area for defence. You MAY NOT place turrets, plasmas, and sleepers directly on a factory or a cc (your own or the enemies) but you may place them near by. This includes near the enemy cc preventing them from being able to respawn without dying. You may also not block access to a factory, there must be at least one tile open to all factories.

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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 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! 

by Surge

Dear Fellow BC Players,

If you haven't participated in the city design competition for awhile, now is your chance!  We have new rules, and an all new voting poll which makes it much easier to vote for your favorite design.  A prize is also awarded to the best design….a free city rental for a month.   So submit those designs soon!  For they are due on FRIDAY!

Current CDC City: CORRIENTES, Due Friday, August 3rd!! 

 Important Links:

CDC Main Site and Voting Panel

CDC Forum