Is BattleCity on the Verge of a Return?
BattleCity 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 BattleCity Project on Sourceforge! As an old BattleCity player and huge fan of the game, I have been following the progress from the moment I heard of it and have been posting any helpful information I can remember on their forums to help them get the game done!
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 BattleCity in the near future after all! I’ll definitely continue providing any information needed to help have the project completed!
Check out the old -tCo- website to see some predicted return dates for BattleCity! Will any of them be close? Looks like all have past except for one in 2007!
