Plan for Britton LaRoche

Development continues on Burger Wars through Beaver Patrol. We have several new features coming soon to Game Beavers

Beaver Patrol now has the following:

1. Guided missles (with shoulder mounted missle launcher and target reticles)
2. Jets ( 5 new ones )
3. Jet Packs
4. Server side character persistence (flat file at the moment) but still fun. Weapon slots become automatically enabled as you get more points. This persists on the server for your next log in.
5. Enhanced AI. The bots are now a little smarter, they grab flags now if they are laying near by and they dont try to shoot through walls. The can distinguish team members from non team members and have better methods of selecting their target opponents.
6. Configurable power ups like regeneration, speed and enhanced jumping.
7. Character selection with team skins. Team names show up in red and blue.
8. Lots of new characters... slowly working their way in.
9. ODE physics integration



You can check out the work in progress... pre release by using cvs
*** Its not Ready YET ... Issues still being worked out ***

:pserver:anonymous@www.sourcemonger.com:/cvsroot/gamebeavers
Module is devgame

*** Its not Ready YET ***

Its all free and the source and art files are freely available to everyone. You just need to join and contribute to the asset base to sell and distribute the game content. No restrictions on code except credit to the authors. Should be available fairly soon. We are doing some more testing and bug fixing. The code base should be hosted here on Garage Games cvs repository once we get it tested and stable.

The dev plan for Burger Wars was to have the team develop and release the code base to Game Beavers so everyone could benefit. Game Beavers is cool because we all own it and can use it in our own games. The idea is to get the small independent shops working together.

Now we Begin the Marketing Phase. The plan of attack is straight forward. After cold calling publishers listed on Gamma Sutra We now know that this is a good way to annoy secretaries and executive admins. You can actually feel the hate radiate through the phone after the 3rd or fourth call. Also a good lesson is that no one with "Director" or "VP" in their title actually checks their own voice mail. The same admin you spoke with earlier does that for them and transcribes it to a log. You are filtered out.

So the way to go is the same old way. Attend conferences, get business cards and hit the gaming sites with lots of good screenshots and media. We are now working with Fraps and our new levels to get some good coverage. In my opinion I think getting published is alot like getting a date or landing a wife. The trick is to get them to come to you. Get your act together, get polished, get confident and make yourself known. If networking with contacts and internet publishing does not work the next step is to contact agents. Much like a dating service they can hook you up for a fee.

We have some great contacts and a great list of websites from Cannon's Mini one racer. We will be posting this information and progress reports on Game Beavers.


Mc Bozo and his french fry shot gun... notice the fry box shell ejecting

We are adding in the hot coffe grenades and pickle gun. The Burger Bomb works well.