Pirate Tag!An innovative multi player mini-game/tag map for up to 10 players. Gamers control the action with the keyboard keys IJKL instead of using the mouse. A simple but fun map for everyone to enjoy.
Now I'm not really sure if you meant the pirates to be almost as big as the trees or it's just a current state in progress, but it looks a little weird to me. :P Also using I, J, K and L as movement keys? I usually find W, A, S and D to be easier to use since it my left hand mostly in that area.
The problem with WASD was that S was = Stop and I could not find any easy solution to the problem so because of lack of time before contest submission date I just went with IJKL as that is often used aswell in internet games and such that are multiplayer.
I were supposed to make the trees larger aswell, but never got around to it, not the most important thing on my mind though :P
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Project revived and back in development, I would really appreciate it if some more people came with a review of the game, the more feedback, positive as negative, the better. Thanks!
Right now it seems funner for me with less players, becaus the islands to small. Make the island bigger, and it would be better with more players...but worse with less. So I dont know if you want to do it or not, but the map sucks with full house.
Alllthough It has afew bugs, this map is GREAT fun.
I were actually thinking about lowering the maximum amount of players down to 8 to make it less crowded, but I don't know if I should do it or not, I'm a bit lazy and it's a lot of work :P
Completely story-wise, it would make more sense if it wasn't a "tag", but rather something more serious.
Are you familiar with the term "Shanghaiing" or "Crimping", and the history behind it? In short, during the mid 1800's on the north American west coast, there was a huge shortage of good sailors as everyone escaped the sea for the California gold rush. Not enough people wanted to go to sea. Also, during this time there was a legislation that made it illegal for any crew to leave the ship before the voyage was completed, so captains durned to crime to man their boats. One method was to forge their signature and then force the victim onboard. Another was to lure them with false promises. Those who were in charge of manning the ships were called "crimps" or "boarding masters" and could make a fortune off their work.
I don't know, maybe something for the loading screen, or maybe it'll give you ideas. Just though I'd share.
And as I mentioned earlier, maybe a snazzier hat for the first pirate? Just for that extra touch.
If you could find me someone to make a cool hat, then sure, if not then there is no other attachment than the one already used sadly.
And thanks for the story ideas but I don't want to delete the text already in the loadingscreen because that tells all the gameplay and without that people would be completely lost. Also removing "tag" from the name wouldn't be that good a choice I think, the word tag attracts a lot of people on BNet I think, or is it more a negative thing these days?
I don't know wether tags are popular these days or not, but I think people associate "tags" with sheep tag, ent tag, kodo tag, the type of maps where you hide and build bases ect. This map is nothing like those at all, but more like the real life child game, thus giving people the wrong idea of what kind of map it is.
I'd change the name, but then again I hate most wc3 tags and would never willingly be associated with one.
I get your point, but in such a case, what should the name then be? It would need to be easy to understand, catchy and so on. Perhaps Pirates vs Land Huggers? (dumb but works)
