~Nova Wars~

[Vestras]

~Nova Wars!~

A little side-project while working on Era of Alliance.

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  What is this?

Nova Wars is a 32x32 arena genre map with a twist; The map is based on novas. When you pick your hero, which is a normal warcraft 3 hero, with a little custom spells, you will have two items: One named "Choose Nova" and one named "Upgrade Nova".

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  The Choose Nova Item

When this item is used, a dialog with, currently, 4 buttons. One named Frost Nova, one named Flame Nova, one named Lightning Nova, and one named Poison Nova. Each Nova has its own adventages and disadventages; Example is, that the poison nova has a lot of buffs, and is weak in the early levels, but more powerful in the later levels.

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  The Upgrade Nova Item

As some of you may have guessed, this item upgrades your Novas. Upgrading your Novas costs more and more Hero Points, which is gained from hero killing. For each time you upgrade a Nova, it will cost 5 more Hero Points.
The max level of the Novas is 15, but this will increase.

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  Heroes

Currenly, there are only 2 heroes. But making heroes is not the big time taker in this map, so I'll guess that the first beta version is ready today or tomorrow.

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  How did I get this idea?

Well, I am making a hero for the hero contest, and that hero got an ability with a nova, and then I thought; "Wow, it could be nice with a map based on novas!". And about 2 min after, I had drawed the map on a paper, and thought of all the systems I should use.

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  Screenshots

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  Beta testers

None

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  Suggestions

I am wide open for suggestions, so just shoot
The suggestions will be posted in this post.

Increase Size of Novas System by ZiggyMcjoney.

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  Progress

Terrain: 100%.
Heroes: 20%.
Skills: 30%.
Systems: 80%.
Originality: 40+%.

Report bugs and comments at: [email protected]

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  Current version:

Nova Wars v1c Beta!

Features:
Rematch System.
Even More Novas
2 Heroes (duh)
Minimal sized map ( 96,7 kb as far as I remember.. )

There ya go: NWv1c(p)

Have fun

 

[Vestras]

Bump.

15 chars.

 

[burnedevil]

How are you going to make it not boring? frost nova, flame nova, poison nova. Is it that different?

but gl, might be good or might be bad.

 

[Vestras]

Nova Wars v1 Beta!

Features:
AI
More Novas
2 Heroes (duh)
Minimal sized map ( 84,7 kb as far as I remember.. )

There ya go: NWv1b(p)

Have fun

 

[Vestras]

Let me check this map out, I'll comment later.
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T-down for now, I can't even cast any of the novas! How am I suppose to cast it? And how come there's no fountain like thing?

What happens when you cast them? Have you even choosed one? What do you mean with "fountain like thing"?

 

[Vestras]

Nevermind the fountain thing, i cant even see the nova spell, do I need anything to choose a nova?

Yes, use the Choose Nova item.

Funny, it is not very popular here, but on Thehelper.net it recieved 30+ post on about 3 days.

 

[The Dark Wizard]

Sounds interesting i will look at it when i can and comment back.

 

[Vestras]

Nova Wars v1c Beta!

Features:
Rematch System.
Even More Novas
2 Heroes (duh)
Minimal sized map ( 96,7 kb as far as I remember.. )

There ya go: NWv1c(p)

Have fun

 

[Mookand]

Your map sounded interesting so i checked it out and play tested it. During play testing i found it kinda confusing and found some issues.
1. Your map needs better instructions and tooltips because it doesn't tell the differences between nova's so picking one is difficult.
2. The upgrade nova doesn't seem to do anything it doesn't even use up hero points.
4. While I play tested for some reason for the first match the game doesn't give you certain novas you pick(frost and lightning)
5. During the rematching resources aren't reset.