Battle City

Build a city. Hire a team. Orb the enemy.

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BattleCity Release Date

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Since last July I have been working on a BattleCity project of my own. The client was rewritten from scratch due to instabilities in the Sourceforge project and an apparent lack of other programmers to help fix them. Once Mark left the Sourceforge project I ceased all work on it and started creating my own. Mark had taught me pretty much everything I knew about C++, such as effectively structuring a program and using linked lists correctly.

So after a long time I am able to present BattleCity, with a release date set for February 21, 2005. If you want to log on the test server (not guaranteed to be up, but it is often) you can head to https://battlecity.org/downloads/ and grab the client.

Is Battle City on the Verge of a Return?

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Battle City is an old action and strategy multiplayer game created by CodeHammer back in the 90’s. After it was taken down, several different groups have tried to bring the game back to life unsuccessfully.

Back near the beginning of 2004, a new team of individuals decided to start up a Battle City project on Sourceforge. While the project is inspired by the original Battle City by CodeHammer, this is a completely unique game written from scratch in C++.

Battle City has always been one of my favorite games. I have therefore joined the project in order to help with design and documentation. I’ve also been keeping the forums busy! 🙂

The project, led by Tr4c3r and consisting of team members ReMoTe, RizeUp and SeeleJager got off to a good start. I wrote some documentation for them describing the game and features as best as I could remember to help them program it as closely to the original as possible.

However, after v0.0.4 was released things started to slow down. The good news was that even though the project was starting to look like it might not continue, unlike with previous attempts, the community would be left with source code that someone could eventually pick up and possibly complete!

Recently, ReMoTe has been in contact with me to inform me that he has continued working on the project on his own. He has sent me a demo and it’s looking good! There may be hope for a re-birth of Battle City in the near future after all!

I’ll definitely continue providing any information needed to help have the project completed!