Awesome CW1 style missions, free, and available online… what’s not to like? CW:US has just been released and is premiering on Kongregate.com. So before I waste any more words, head over and rate it 5 stars. The Creeper Nation needs your support:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/whiteboardwar/creeper-world-user-space
Creeper World: User Space is a free flash game that contains 13 total missions (1 tutorial, and 12 regular missions). The twelve regular missions are divided into three levels of difficulty. The first level will get your creeper disintegration muscles warmed up. The second level will get your heart pounding, and the third level will leave you with an evil grin on your face.
These missions were all created with the Creeper World Map Editor. I accepted nominations for maps on the forums for a few months and then went through the many fantastic user submitted maps and chose the ones to include. I looked for game play variety, aesthetic appeal, pacing, and difficulty. Once chosen, I made small tweaks here and there so that each mission would fit properly into its difficulty category. The results are now available on Kongregate (and KnuckleCracker.com naturally), and will soon be coming to thousands of other portals near you.
Wondering which of the thousands of missions were chosen? Here’s a quick screen shot:
Uhhh… My map wasn’t chosen! This game doesn’t deserve 5 stars! *Stalks off*
JK. Looks great Virgil
If it’s a success, there might always be a User Space 2… Besides, some awesome maps have to be saved for the desktop game 🙂
Yeah! There’s still hope!
Awesome! 😀
Hey Cool! You took one of my suggestions! Sweeeeet
I really don’t get some of these choices… There are some five minute make maps that got in easy, and then there were some really good entries that a lot of work went into that didn’t go in. :/ I thought this was to show the best of the cw custom maps, not the average.
The tutorial mission is from CW. The play space mission is an open ended place for new players to experiment in. Roots of evil demonstrates creeper containment with a mortar or blaster… A concep often missed by new players. The rest of the missions came from the nominations list. They were selected for the play style, difficulty, and appearance they offered.
Are they the best maps? I don’t know. Maybe, but probably not. I didn’t evaluate all maps or even look for the best maps. I looked at nominated maps that met the criteria above. Even then, I still had to make choices for which ones to include. The choice often came down to which maps required the least modification in order to make them fit the difficulty profile I was looking for.
In short, I had to go through over a hundred maps and narrow them via a selection process. Then I had to spend days tweaking them for general playability.
Another question to ask might be “which 12 would you have picked? And when you look at that list could someone else look at it and wonder why you didn’t pick different ones?”
So maybe I could have selected better missions… Probably. But I did the best I could on a dataset that was thousands large. Next game, I’ll try to learn from this experience and do better…
I guess I should point out that my comment above is directed at some of the earlier maps…
I had just started my playthrough (new laptop came in yesterday!) and saw the first three maps. After I posted I looked at the rest of them… And I guess they’re alright. None after the first three are 5 minute makes, that’s for sure.
Fun little play-through. Rated 5 stars, of course. 😀
Awesome. Always great to hear when it gets a 5 star vote. Every vote counts at Kongregate and it is a serious race this month.
Lol, I’ve voted five stars from my iPod, my laptop, and my dad’s laptop. And… Actually, I’m not sure if I’ve written a review. Lmao.
The game in general is great, as usual. I have to say though, the map that looks like a cell, Virus Attack is the name iirc, looks AMAZING.
Very cool. 😀
creeperception a game within a game, o my tacuna again?
I love this game, I actually have it on my site!