We’re happy to announce today that the Looble Network will be hosting the new BattleCity Command Center website!

I’ve mentioned recently that the classic multiplayer game BattleCity was nearing a possible return and that I was assisting with the development of the game from a design and documentation perspective. After having tested some of the latest versions of the game created by ReMoTe, it became obvious that BattleCity would go online very soon. I therefore offered to put up and host the official website for the community and ReMoTe agreed!

ReMoTe also runs the game Odyssey Classic meaning BattleCity will be his second game. Since he has plans to work on developing even more games, I have agreed to assist him by running, administrating, and further designing BattleCity.

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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!

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You can call me Sherlock Deceth if you like, because I may be cracking down on this Looble… Looble mystery!

Remember back in one of my earlier posts I mentioned that I thought the person who first introduced us to Looble.com was probably on IRC discussing it with us? Well, I started investigating the people in #Looble by simply writing down which other channels they were in and then joined these channels to see if I could find one where everybody was laughing about how they were fooling us into believing in some weird mystery =p

Well, I didn’t find that room, but I did find one that was very interesting…!
I started asking people if they knew anything about Looble.com and John Vechey’s abduction. Many had no idea what I was talking about while others laughed and said they were in #Looble awaiting an update. Then finally I caught a break in #ARC! When I asked about John Vechey in this room, one person replied that, “the aliens at Popcap abducted him”. When I asked this person to elaborate, he just laughed and said, “JV hasn’t played ARC in ages buddy”.

You’re not going to believe this! It turns out ARC, stands for Attack-Retrieve-Capture. It is a multiplayer game that John Vechey worked on as a project in college which features players controlling UFO’s equipped with weapons who must capture the enemy teams flag.

Ok I lied, I’m not cracking down on this mystery, I’m even more confused than before. Was the Looble.com mystery an effort to promote an existing game named ARC? From what I gather, John Vechey no longer has any affiliation with this game, nor does Justin King. Again, whats the purpose of Looble.com? The only link I can see between ARC and Looble.com is that the initial discussions about Looble.com set us on this wild goose hunt which led us to ARC.

So in resume, we discussed what Looble… Looble might mean, then found an IRC channel named #Looble created by Justin King who has a music album named Le Bleu, and eventually Justin King changes his screen name to John Vechey for a few hours before vanishing. Upon vanishing, he talks about UFO’s stealing flags, which is the basis of this game that he (John Vechey) was a part of creating.

That pretty much leaves us at a dead end right now unless anybody has any ideas…

(This post originally from AlienSpore.com)

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