Bubble Tanks Arenas: Your Questions- Now With Answers!
Hi everyone, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted on this blog myself! But rest assured that I’m always on here and I read each and every comment (true story). Since I’ve seen hundreds of comments in response to our upcoming game, Bubble Tanks Arenas, I thought I’d step in and try to address a number of those.
Q. When is BTA going to be released? Hurry up already!
A. Right now we don’t have a release date set and we’re too far out to give one. We’ve recently moved from the design and pre-production stage and into full blown development. During this time you’ll start to get more information such as screenshots, videos, etc… We joke that the release date will be in 2012 just to make SURE we’ll have the game released before when we promise, but realistically I think we’re looking at about 2 months yet before the game is out. Making these games is hard work!
Q. What’s with the “time permitting” comments in the feature specs? You should spend as long as you need to to make the game the best ever!
A. While we agree that we definitely want to make BTA the best possible game it can be, we also like to have food on our table and a roof to sleep under. Hero Interactive is a business, this is our only job, we do it all day every day. Many players assume all flash game developers create the games as a hobby in their spare time, but for us it’s our job. If we don’t get a game out, we don’t get paid.
The truth is, if we spent as much time as we wanted putting in every single feature we ever thought of and liked, we’d never release the game at all- we’re always coming up with new and better features we’d love to put in there.
Bubble Tanks 2 had somewhere around 30 weapons (including the secondary special abilities). That’s a lot, and we hope to get many of those into BTA. If we have enough time, we’d like to add a few new ones as well. If adding new weapons means we’re going to add another month to our schedule, we’d rather get the game out sooner. And of course, there’s always the possibility of a BT3… 
Q. Will you be able to change the colors of your tank? Will the game be a different color than blue?
A. BTA will be colored in a red/purplish theme, differing from our traditional blue. While we have considered allowing players to change the colors of their tanks or background, we’ve decided against this feature as a) we’re worried about an inconsistent mish-mash of colors that would result and hurt our eyes and b) because adding this feature would greatly lengthen the amount of time to develop the game. So the tank/background colors will be different than blue this time around, but you won’t be able to custom color anything.
Q. You should make the tank editor allow you to purchase upgrades for your tank or use my awesome ___ idea!
A. We want to make tank creation as easy as possible. You drag bubbles onto the creator screen and drop them where you’d like. Making your tank bigger will make it slower, but it will give you extra armor and open up heavier weapons. Keeping your tank smaller will give you less armor, but you’ll be much faster and agile. To place weapons, simply select them from our list and drag and drop them onto your tank. Worried about keeping your tank looking symmetric? Just check a box and placing a bubble on one side of the tank will also place one on the other side to keep it looking even. It’s that simple.
Q. Will we be able to design our own weapons?
A. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to create your own weapons. First of all, outside of the art, the programming for game weapons is very complicated. Creating this feature would take a very long time and the end result would be too complicated for most casual players to enjoy. Also, in order to keep the game balanced we need to assign costs to weapons so that you’re amply rewarded for your bubble blasting skills!
I hope that answers some of the biggest questions out there!
wow this made me even more interested into the game great job guys!!!
thats suck that its going to take another two months but they will be worth it. your games are always awesome keep up the good work HI.
Just curious, if people can customize the look and feel of their tanks as much as you claim they can, will there be a way for people to show off their creations? Perhaps something as simple as a screenshot tool in the creator that uploads a picture to an online gallery or something? I have seen games do this with two different softwares, so you could maybe release this after BTA so you don’t have to put the finishing touches on in a cardboard box with a beat up laptop.
@Ov3rkill13:
As we said in the previous post listing the BTA features, the game will allow you to save your tank designs on our server to share with friends. They will be able to load your tank and play as it. That’s even better than a screenshot!
Looks like a great game. I understand that it would take a long time to make many of the features you would like, but after you release the ‘final’ product, (assuming you will still have time) couldn’t you add features as you go, like, even if its just free time and it takes you a year or two? That and… there is always BT3 and by the sounds of it BTA2. I may just not be as educated in the way of programming as I like to think I am, either way, keep up the good work, you are doing great.
I hope that having big tanks wont result in practicly invinsible tanks like the BFT Carrier.
this game is really fun you should play it
Um, Katie…which game?
why it comming not out?
I think this game will earn awards so make it as cool as posible withought straining yourself ok.
Hi, been a while since checked the blog ^^
About BTA: The banner looks great right now, and the features sound cool. I had some fleet ideas, and I will try to make them into the game, through I made some new weapons. I guess it wont harm my designs. Also, is the music same, or will it change? Through all that, keep up the good work HI.
Also, how may I contact you? I tried sending some emails, but I never got any back (From steph).
Its been a while since i posted a comment. But i just wanted to say it looks like its coming along great. By the way, when is pirate defense coming out?
n00bdude,
I haven’t gotten any e-mails from you, are you sure you’re using the right address? I can be contacted at steph@herointeractive.com. I also have a company AIM account if you would like to have a more direct conversation (histephriley).
this wes sent on my birth day
sjoerd because the game is not finished!
And i have a question Can we play multiplayer or only 1 player?
This will be a single player game.
when are you gonna finsh the game
Hahaha! Are you guys doing this on purpose?
Will the big world bubble be used or not? I don’t think you should do it right now, but it’s something i’d like to see in future. Also, maybe you should make it so you can update it with new starter tanks, bubbles to use in creation and occasional weapons. Another thing is, how do you guys get paid? Is it from sites like armor games and kongregate getting ec versions?
I would especially love to see new types of bullets involved in bta.
Perhaps there could be a few types of weapons like:
- Heavy: as it already is
- Fast: ditto
- Seeking: Seeks out a certain type of enemy, corresponding to its element.
- Sniper: More damaging but slower
and now…the elements:
Fire: Good against heavier enemies with stressed engines. Seekers go for heaviest on screen.
Water: Good against quicker enemies with less waterproof armour. seekers go for quickest.
Poison: Self explanatory. No seekers available.
And so on. I would love to do artwork if you want.
I can’t wait to start making tanks….I think i might start pencil sketching some designs…..
IM wondering
will the tank like point in the deriction that you aiming or will juest the ‘turret’?
That depends how much it weighs. Will we be able to get special engine bubble to increase the speed?
When will it be released?;)
Looking awesome guys keep on bubbling
by the way BillyBobJoeJunior, bubbles can only exist in liquid ( im pretty sure) so how can you have a fire element.
Im only waiting for this game because of the custumize thing!
OMG that was my symmetrical thing and i was the only one whpo said it ty soooooo much (and ty for the slightly accurate estimate of two months release) ALso–im not the one who posted it–but what do you mean time permitting like will we have to only play a certain amount of time each day por something?
In bubble tanks 2, where can i find Sapper fighter? What exactly does Sapper Fighter look like? Sapper fighter is the only enemy i haven’t unlocked. What’s the website that when you go to Bubble Tanks 2, not even play the game, when you go to “bubble-o-pedia” you can see all the enemies without having to ulock them?!
“And of course, there’s always the possibility of a BT3…
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Love that “Red/Purple” look, and that BT3 Comment keeps the flame burning..
I do hope however, even if it will take several more months, add more weapons! They are what I came to love about the game.
Stop asking ” WHEN WILL IT BE RELEASED DAMN IT? ”
You dont know how to read? they said:
Right now we don’t have a release date set and we’re too far out to give one. We’ve recently moved from the design and pre-production stage and into full blown development. During this time you’ll start to get more information such as screenshots, videos, etc… We joke that the release date will be in 2012 just to make SURE we’ll have the game released before when we promise, but realistically I think we’re looking at about 2 months yet before the game is out. Making these games is hard work!
Bubbles do not only occur in water, they are also made of air. So, too answer your question, yes, you can have fire in a bubble. It’s just that the bubble is going to get smaller. And BT isn’t real life
How dare you say BT isn’t real life..
hero interactive i love you
i hate you herointeractive hahahaha
of course it isn’t. That’s what makes it fun. Anyway, what about my weapon ideas?
@BillyBobJoeJunior
Like they said, there might not be any new weapons because they are one of the most complicated and time consuming program elements. I am sure that HI is considering your weapons, but they can not spend ten years incorporating all the ideas that pop up. They haven’t forgotten you, but they might not use your weapon ideas.
They are good ideas, though, and are useful to HI, even if they don’t appear in the final product, so keep coming up with the great ideas!
My point was that i wanted to know what they themselves thought. Is the lack of comments from hi a sign of increased production?
they are probely busy people right now cuz they making BTA and thats y they have’nt replyed
Don’t take it personally BillyBobJoeJunior…you’ve seen how many ideas we’ve had posted over the last few weeks. We can’t really respond to each and every one of them, but we HAVE seen them all.
Just……please……they already went over this thousands of times, they probably took in a lot of the ideas and will be taking less than before.
Think from the designers point of veiw. What would you do if a thousand people kept on wanting weapon ideas and you’re already half-way into making it and this one person keeps on persisting to put his complicated weaponry in and have an entire new thing about elements and fire and water and weapons responses to different tank elements. If my manager or head esigner or watever you call told me to put everyone’s ideas in, id be pretty pissed off
Oh God! I really want to play it now! But i want it to be really good……..I hate waiting.
I can’t wait for them to make the game i mean the 2nd one was amazing i still play it sometimes. I mean i do want it to be the best it can be really but i also really wanna play it badly! Imma gonna make me tank purple ^^
It’s hard, I know. Waiting is difficult and not fun, but we want the game to be the best it can be. Maybe we should try and forget about it, and when it does come out we’ll be pleasantly surprised.
I’m wondering how many of you even bothered to read everything that Jared wrote…I keep seeing comments and questions relating to things covered in Jared’s post. For example…
Stormmaster:
“…While we have considered allowing players to change the colors of their tanks or background, we’ve decided against this feature…” Keeping that in mind, how are you planning on turning your tank purple?
and a scientific matter, BillyBobJoeJunior:
“A bubble is a globule of one substance in another, usually gas in a liquid…” How do you propose it’s possible for a fire to be inside a bubble? or bubbles inside a fire? Neither are possible…
As for “awwwwww mannnnn”…I can’t tell if that’s you’re regular ‘name’ or not because you haven’t posted again under that. There is however(correct me if I’m wrong), a rule against making a new ‘name’ each time you post or making a name to enhance the point you are trying to make…
On a lighter note, It’s nice to see that *most* of everyone is writing in proper, well thought out english.
By the way, nice diplomatic skills, Ov3rkill13
When are you going to release the game? Can you add upgrades? How many bubble tokens does each weapon cost? What weapons can you have when you build your own bubble-tank?
What? 2012? Then I’d be in grade 5 and won’t have time to play these games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First: rudy you will have time to play it when you’re in grade 5, just not as much.
Second: Malaman, sorry if i didn’t know how this works, it was my first time posting. that’s true that “awwwwww mannnnn” isn’t my regular name as said befor, it was my first time posting. Sorry again.
Third: I was wondering if you, Steph, would mind telling us briefly how much you have completed, thank you.
So, instead of a Bubble Tank, will I be able to have a Bubble Volkswagon? Haha just kidding, you guys make excellent games, and give me one more thing for procrastinating (in a good way).
I’m going to second Malaman’s post. Everybody should really read the ENTIRE post before asking questions as the most common ones have already been answered above.
Rudy - Grade 5? Are you…seven?!
Slavoie - Bubble Tanks Arenas is being created using a different program than BT and BT2 (I believe) so the guys are still getting used to using it. So far, there’s a lot of little stuff done but there’s nothing even close to a beta or any kind of screen shot. Hang in there! We’re workin’ on it.
sorry… i forgot about the mish mash of colors thingy but the backround is still gonna change right?
hmmm, i wonder if in the near future some sort of bubble tanks online is coming out.
i think it would be a great idea if you could have small automatic bubble tanks following you, that could follow simple commands, with asserted hotkeys, like A) attack enemy. S) stop attacking. M) move to position. etc. etc. unless ofcourse it would take to long to make… maybe you could make it a patch or something like that…
also by the way, in my personal opinion, i think its better that you use a bit longer to make the game just that much better, but i dont know if anyoen agrees with me:/
sorry if someone posted similar messages before me, i didnt bother to read all of them…
i also have a couple of questions, A) will the bubble collection work like BT1 or BT2?
meaning the way you collect the bubbles from the oponent tanks you destroy, in BT1 you have to manually collect them, but in 2 they come to you after all the enemies are gone…
B) are you going to post it on armorgames.com? bubble tanks 2 is the second most popular game there, with like 4.2 million plays, so doing so would be great advertisement for you.
I know you probably can’t answer this yet, but will the bubbles you collect in the arenas just add on to your tank in the BT 1 and 2 style, or will they add up like money for you to spend in “bubble creator”?
uuuggghhhh…. so that means this bubble tanks isn’t online?
@stormmaster
No, unfortunately, BTA will probably be an offline game. It was a nice idea, but the programming would be extremely complicated and would take forever. Plus, you would have maintenence, which would take some of HI’s time. This would mean even longer release dates for any games created after BTA. However, there WILL be an online gallery where other people can view your tanks and even play as them.
By the way, congratz on the office space, HI. Can’t wait to see HI grow.
As a sidenote, is Pirate Defence nearing completion? It looks great so far, and I have been coming up with trap combos for weeks. I don’t mean to rush you, though.
i want to play this
It would be fun if it were multiplayer
Really excited about the game guys! I just know that this is going to be awesome!
Honestly, I’m a little disappointed that there’s no online PvP in the game but i understand that would be way too much to ask for.
Maybe in the future when your rich and have lackeys to do menial tasks for you eh’? =D
I still think arenas should be color-coded based on difficutly, with Blue easiest, then Green, Yellow, Red, Purple (bonus?). Also: GREAT WORK on the tank creator! My main beef with Spore is you can’t make assymetrical creations, but you guys have PERFECTED the concept that Spore started! (And great job on balancing armor and speed using bubble size.)
=O
omg its amazing
just an idea to custamize a gun you pick choices for the gun like large bullet,small bullet,siz ect. but it would cost more for each thing you put on it
Is there going to be some initiative to make tanks with not so great weapons and novelties or are all the tanks just ultimately either the fastest, the strongest or the most balanced?
Sorry, one more thing, will you be able to design your own arenas as well and challenge others to them, or are they just going to be the pre-made arenas?
Its been said a million times that weapon creation cant be done
Yeah you’ll be able to design your own arenas!
Wow! there is a lot of comments here.
Anyway, i was wondering about the mini-tank idea too. I think that sounds really cool, and i would definetely like to see that in BTA or BT3 or BTA2 or which ever game comes after BTA
What I’d like to see is the opportunity to make your tank lighter or stronger and suchlike with special more expensive bubbles which you base your tank around. And just a suggestion on the tank creation, but how about you start with the basic tank that is in both and when you get bubbles, you can select an option in the menu which lets you either add bubbles, or if you have enough, make a completely new tank. Also, what is the program you use for making the games? And as for the pvp maintenance issue, i’m sure many people would be willing to help in doing such a task, myself included if i could find the time. And would we be able to invert the colours so you could have a purple tank and red background in one arena and vice versa in another? Also, is there a difference between the code for bt2 and bta? Like is one java and another C# or something? i’d like to see a jukebox so you can use ur own music. THe symmetrical idea is great as well, definitely gonna be a hit. And I already explained why you can have fire in a bubble. BECAUSE BUBBLES CAN BE MADE OF AIR. Its simple. Light a match inside a bubble!!! And observe as bubble gets smaller and your oxygen supply goes away. Fire and bubbles are a bad idea in real life.
i think you have a lot of great ideas in there, and its true, bubbles and fire in real life… not safe
And when you say creating your own arena, does that mean you choose what enemies or will there be things like terran in the arenas?
hmm, well, it would be cool if you could choose your own enemies, tho i dont think its going to happen… it might make the game a little to easy, then you could just choose tons of the easiest enemies and get hundreds of bubbles really fast, and that might ruin the game a little, but i could be wrong…
on another note, HI, is there any chanse of a test version, or beta version? i think it would be great to see how far you guys have gotten at this point, would be something to help you get people to stop asking so many quetions all the time, just a thought…
cant wait till its done:D
I’m pretty sure that we’ve mentioned before that we’re still at the beginning of this game. We’re working on it, but there is NO beta. And there aren’t ANY screen shots. We’re just not ready to start releasing things of that nature yet.
I’m so exited, I already made up my own versions of Bubble Tanks! Is there a weapon that can kill an enemy in one shot? Is there a machine gun that shoots explosive peirce shots? Tell me all the weapons in the whole game!!!!!!!!!!Any seekers that can shoot? What are the new weapons? Any 16 shot parrels? Any 12 bullet spreads? Are there any super cannons? Is there a magical machine gun that can shoot any type of bullet you want it to?
I’ve been drawing bubbletanks on paper, will you let me copy my pictures?
I want to play the game now!!!!!!!!!!
Please finish it already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
random question:What would you recommed i do if i wanted to be a game creator HI?
HI should set up an user account on the website so you could access extra content or something.
note:i have change my name from chimpster to $chimpster$
yea, allright, good to know steph, i figured i had to ask:) dont really know if youve said something about the beta versions before, you probly have tho…
take all the time you need, i still have bt 1 & 2 to play:)
Wow you guys, i think this blog post is gonna be the most filled of the whole HI blog
So, what part of the game are you guys actually doing? the arenas, the tank creator, the enemies, the weapons, the extra things that we don’t know about or just planning?
Can you have a spiral gun? Is there a macine gun that shoots sticky bubbles? Is there a spawn that can spawn any kind of bubbletank it can even copy you tank states and enemy tank states? I hope I can copy my own ideas for weapons!!! What are the old weapons? What are the weapons you can put on your own bubbletank? When are you going to start answering our questions? TELL ME NOW!!!…
Calm down Rudy, it’s okay. All will be answered in time.
Heh, Yeah, I think it’s about time Hero Interactive get’s itself some lackeys…the number of posts in this thread is crazy.
Rudy,
First of all, you asked when we were going to start answering your questions on a blog post entitled “Your Questions - Now with Answers.”
Second, we can’t answer each and every question that we get regarding some gun or bubble. We literally get hundreds every day. I’m sorry if we don’t answer your question directly but we’re trying to get as much done as we can.
As for everybody else, please read through ALL of the comments left on our BTA blog posts and imagine the game with every last idea that has been suggested. It wouldn’t be much fun. In fact it would be needlessly complicated. I promise you’ll enjoy the final game.
As usual, hang in there!
yea, if you put all the ideas that is on this blog here in the game, it would not only take years to make the game, but it would take months to figure out how to play it… nah, its better to keep i simple but good
I think y’all should take as long as y’all need to make it as good as it can be. No need to worry about a release date, as long as the game turns out great!
you should be able to make your own abilites
If even half of the ideas listed here were used, it would be faster to get the flash program and program your own perfect game than to sort through all the junk to get to your ideas.
By the way, HI, maybe you should do something about the many messages just repeating obvious or repetitive questions. They are just making things worse by creating more messages to intimidate people into NOT reading all the comments, thus creating more. How to do this, exactly, I don’t know. I am merely revealing a growing issue.
It is a growing a issue…we’ve actually noticed for some time now. We’re trying to get the forums back up and running so you can all talk more there, but we had some issues with it a month or so ago. However, we can’t keep people from leaving their comments just because somebody else already said or asked something. Just, please!, don’t do it on purpose, guys!
that seems fair, i hope you get your forum problems fixed soon, and theres really not much more to ask, just to sit tight and wait for the game to come out, and HI, no need to hurry anything up, we have plenty to keep us busy with BT 1 and 2, so take your time.
WHEN ON EARTH IS THIS THING COMING OUT!?!?!?
I’ve said 2-3 things asking when the HECK this things coming out, and THEY WEREN’T ANSWERED, WERE THEY???? Look. All I want is to know when this game is coming out. So please e-mail me an estimated time. Please, cos’ I really wanna play this game.
Nooooooooo, Kassad, we haven’t answered your multiple questions because WE DON’T KNOW. We really have no idea when it’s coming out so I won’t be e-mailing you a date or even an estimated date. Please be patient like everyone else. Thanks! Sorry to seem snippy, but we’re (maybe just I’m) getting frustrated with this question as we’ve answered a billion times before.
If it makes you fell better I’m pretty sure it will be in this millennium.
Hahaha! Probably, but we won’t make any promises…
how di i work for HI id be a lackey or somthing
wow i actualy managed to read all the comments =] and i have 1 question that wasent in 1 single comment. At the bottom of the screen it sais “Comments for this post will be closed on 27 June 2009.” were will u be able to talk then?
cool games if i could vote this
Seriously Kassad, Can you read? Had you bothered to even read the first few sentences, You’d see that they wrote “Right now we don’t have a release date set and we’re too far out to give one. ” So asking questions that have already been answered in the blog AND in the dozens other posts have people have asked the same question…We’re all being tremendously patient. Why can’t you?
Patience is a virtue.
what he said…..=D
do u have a date for the game’s release
Oh my god andrew. READ THE COMMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hi its me lord98. when DO YOU THINK will be the first screenshot or video of BTA
He already said he cant give nothing out…….PAY ATTENTION!!!!!!!
hahaha, it almost seems like theyr doing it on purpose to piss you guys of or something… i mean, you’ve said like 25 times that there is no realease date yet, and they still keep asking quesions about when its coming… maye some people just cant read… i dont know, but, i think its getting anpying that everyone keeps asking when its coming out… are you getting near a solution to get people to stop asking that? maybe you could make a new post called “we dont have a realease date, so stop asking” or something like that, cause it doesnt seem like people are gona stop asking any time soon…
also, dont worry about all the people asking when the game is coming out, like i’ve said three times before, take your time to make the game as good as possible, thats what we like about your games:)
i am great at these games i am decicing that you should try making it a good game not how fast you can dish it out ok
I noticed you guys said you were almost done with pirate defense, and the video was great. I also noticed that you put BTA in full tilt. My one question is this: have you stopped working on Pirate Defense? I didn’t see that much left to do in the video, but I’m no programmer. Steph said at one point you were hoping for the end of March, and I have been holding my breath every time I go to this site since then. Just don’t stop production on Pirate Defense because nobody cares because I DO care.
Plus, another way to spend my time until BTA comes out would definately be welcome.
Exactly =]
by the way do you have a realese date(NOT FOR BUBBLE TANKS!!) for the pirate game?
Are you going to answer our questoins or what?
Have any really great new “Ideas”?
Are you going to do the game like this?: ? Like i mean in my own Bubble Tanks 2 i just make up new enemies and weapons during the game!!!???????????????
hey guys, i just got one question, do you think BTA will be done before feb. 2010? seriously? cause i just got the notice today, that ive been drafted, and will be going to the air force then, il be gone like 10 months, or more, and i would love to atleast test the game before i go, i think it’s gona be really cool, flying jetplanes and all kinds of awesome stuff, and NAROM, wich like is the norwegian (yea, i live in norway) version of NASA, are recruiting right out of the air force, so if i qualify for it, i will get called in to serve there , wich means il be going into space, wich is AWESOME! but the bad part, its a two year thing, on top of the 10 months in the airforce, so thats almost 3 years away, with very limited internet access… wether i get in or not, is about your physical and mental state, theyr looking for the best and brightest you might say, so the 3 best physically and mentaly fit people get picked, and im up against some pretty serious competition, like 10.0000 people from all over the country will be aplying. hope i get it, but, like i said, its not until february 2010, so i have a while to get in even better shape than i am:) but anyway, back to my question, will the game be out before then?
i apreciate the long time you took reading this message, and sorry about wastig your time if you dont care:/
Rudy,
We HAVE answered your questions to the best of our ability. As per your new questions, we have had some interesting new ideas, but aren’t sharing them quite yet. Also, are we making the game like what? I’m not sure what your question even meant.
I know that it’s hard work, but I’m still impatient. You should add a rusty spork as the most expensive weapon. Bravatavo!
when DO YOU THINK will be the first screenshot or video of BTA
Rudy meant that he wants to know (will it be similar to ….. game)
wow im gone for like 2 days and people ask what? 7 more comments or questions!?!? U gota do somthing seph….about this problem!
by the way i hope u do get in that airforce thingallways_there good luck :]
So, will you be able to customize your tank in game when you get a certain amount of bubbles, or will the tanks actually have health this time round? Please keep it minus energy bars and such things. Even a health system would be pushing the limits of how much you can add to bta before you take away the main concept: simplicity. And good luck allways_there.
hmm, yeah, i think the health bar could work, but if you put in to many things, it will, like billybob said, remove the main consept, the simplicity, wich is one of the greatest things about the BT 1 & 2…
now for a question that i dont think anyone has asked before me, how long did it take you guys to make the other 2 games? im thinking of BT 1 and 2 ofcourse.
and thanks light and billybob, but im allready in the airforce, its only the space program thing that i wont know if i get into, but i hope for the best, whatever that may be:)
by the way HI, cant you guys use your moderator skills or something and delete soe of the messages? some of my old ones i dont mind if you delete, maybe delete anything older than 2 weeks?
Sounds like a good idea. Good luck with the space thing then.
First I have to say I cannot wait for this game!
Second: I really dont think first graders should be using the interwebz(Cough* rudy)
Third: BillyBobJoeJunior you have some great idea’s with the whole elements thing but I believe that it just wont work in a bubble tanks game. Im not going to argue with you over weither fire can be in a bubble or poison or whatever, but BT (and predecessors)is more of just a straight up shooter and less of a…role playing game. Yes in BTA you will be able to make your own arena’s and tanks but adding elements would really mess up the game’s “theme” if you will. The entire game would need to be based on elements and what counteracts those elements and what each element does to every enemy and what an enemy element would do to you.
Cannot wait for this game to come out, been a fan since the original!
When it come OUT!?!??!
-.- did you seriosly ask that question? Why is it no one reads the post the are commenting in, or even the comments already said? They probably won’t even read the reply if they were to get one, because it appears that they don’t read any of the comments. People, please read all the comments (and the original post) to make sure your question wasn’t already answered before you post it.
well, seems like there are a few good ways to get rid of the question “when is it coming out?” for example, you could make a new thread called “we dont have a realese date for BTA” and simply delete that when you get a realease date, or, everyone could start saying that at the end of the message every time they say it… i think they both could work, but, you will definately get a few people asking you when it comes out, because some people arent smart enough to figure out that you guys at HI will probobly tell us when you finaly do get a realease date…
there is no reaease date yet, so dont ask!
Yes I think those are good ideas, this is a real problem. THEY DON’T KNOW “WHEN IT COME OUT”!!!!!
true, seems like almost every time yuo leave this site and coe back, theres a new guy asking the question when its coming out…
there is no reaease date yet, so dont ask!
i just beat pirate defense for the second time in a row…
GLARE BUG
When the tanks rotate, bubble glares also rotate! Why!? This is unrealistic, so the game looks flat…
I see that there are only 2 fixed light source in the game that shine on the left top.
So you should always keep glare positions on the upper left corner on the outer envelope side and lower right corner on the inner envelope side of each bubble in the game (including when a tank is rotating).
Thank you.
Excuse my poor English.
Thanks for pointing that out Dimonster. However, I think you might be getting just a little too nit-picky. That’s an art problem that would have cost us LOTS of time to correct. Just the same, thanks for noticing.
PIRATE DEFENSE IS RELEASED which means that you will have more time to make BTA.
@lord98
great observation
And also, how do you mean we can create our own arenas? like, obstacles or turrets?
yay!
hellloooo
from the sounds of things you are getting a lot done.Please dont just finnish the game an leave it sitting there please update it when your done.
When placing a bubble does it have to be connected to the core or can it float out there eg a ring around th main bubble thing?
great work dont stop unless you fell the need adn MAKE THIS GAME GOOOD plz :3
well, its been a while since ive posted anythign here, and im glad to see that there havent been any more questions about when the game is coming out…
I agree. Those posts get irritating very quickly.
pirate defense are ou now bubble tanks 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I have to admit that I’ve been deleting some of them as they have absolutely nothing new to bring to this. However, most of them that were deleted also had improper English or profanities as well.
can’t wait and i agree those posts are pretey anoying. I wonder what types of enemies there will be?
Yo its foreworst here just wondering… Will this game be similar to BT1 & BT2?
hmm, im sure there will be atleast soe of the same enemies as in the first 2 games, and then soe new ones, and if im right, maybe a few difrent bosses, but if thats not in your plans then dont use tons of time making new ones:)
on an unrelated topic, where do i, if possible, register to get an account on HI?
you can just tell me right here in a post, or send me an e-mail, i think you have my e-mail adress
im back !!!
ok so i was wondering are there going to bee mele wepons or just ranged like last time keep up the GODLIKE work HI
welcome back D4V3, we all missed you while you were gone, even tho i dont remember you… anyway, that is a very good question, would be col if there was meelee weapons
buzz saw!! vroom nreeeech pop! yay go mele wepons
i can’t wait when it is out! please hurry! and when it is out send it fast to armor games!
i have now devoted myself to posting everyday posible yay
ok is this game going to be multiplayer like with a lobby were there iz a list of pplz it the lobby and you can chat and chalenge players or somthing like that like were u kan duel other players
are you asking if thats how its going to be or are you saying that is how it will be?
allways_there on April 30th, 2009
are you asking if thats how its going to be or are you saying that is how it will be?
will it be this way or not??
yes im actualy going to post every day even if nothing changes
keep up the good work HI
here is what you said before:
is this game going to be multiplayer like with a lobby were there iz a list of pplz it the lobby and you can chat and chalenge players or somthing like that like were u kan duel other players
i was wondering if you were asking if the game will be like that, or if you were saying, thats how the game will be… i couldnt tell, since there was no question mark…
i understand your confusion and i am sorry i am bad at grammar
i got 50.03% in english this year thats a pass by .03%
soo yeah im just talking for the sake of talking and the fact that im posetd in other threads to soo COME TALK TO MEEE PLLLLLZZZZZZZZZZ!!!
p.s. im also bad at math 50.03 - 50 is .03 rite?
well, not everyone can be great at english… however, like you, im not very good at math either, i’m only slightly better than you, i got somewhere around 53%, /- 1%, cant really remember exactly, my memory sucks, anyway, the point is, your not alone, i’m not really a genious either, but hey, as long as you pass, thats what counts right?:)
btw, where you from? im from norway(europe).
P.S. i know the proper form of writing that sentence would be: “Where are you from?” or alternatively: “Where do you come from?” but it sounds better to me, feels like its much cooler just saying: where you from? right? but then again… if i have to explain it, its not that cool after all, it kinda ruins the point…
Im not a serious gamer or anything but the bubble tanks games are awesome! Do you think you could make them for ds or g-cube or x-box or anything? Id buy it!
It’s almost out! I can’t weight!!! that Vector boom is comen out too!!! EXCITEMENT!!!
Whoo! I finally got away from Pirate Defense long enough to post here. Been awhile since I did. By the way, HI, Pirate Defense, as fun as it is, is too easy. I beat 101 challenge the second time around and have never lost it since, no matter how much I changed the strategy.
Back to BTA, I’d like to try and sum up most of the comments on this thread to try to clarify what HI has done for those of you who can’t sit around long enough to read all the comments.
First, what HI has promised so far.
You will be able to design your tank
No color designing
Parallel guide
No weapon designing
No elements
Simple
Arenas will be designable
Enemy choice
Other players can fight in your arena
No background color designing
No multiplayer
Tank and arena sharing will be available
Release
This will be a surprise
THEY WILL NOT TELL YOU
As for people’s ideas, the most common are…
Multiplayer
Denied
Elements
Denied
Health Bar
Possible
Arena Terrain
Denied?
Enemy Design
Possible
If I have any info wrong, or if I missed something that is very important, feel free to comment.
With HI’s permission, I would like to make a weekly version of this comment to keep everyone updated without having to read through a million comments.
o hi allways_there glad i am not alone :3
any who im from canadia (ths my way of spellin canada its more awsome) and im in gr8 soo yeah :3 back to BTA!!
will there be secret wepons that you have to unlock and wil there be the bubble o pedia with a list if weps and stuffs like that :3
another thing how will i be able to diferenciate between enimy bullets and my own? i found that reeeely confusing in bt2 and bt1 could you have like green and blue or something im coller blind so red and green look almost identical nad blue and purble are the exact same like the sky looks purple to me and a purple car woould look purple to me ok so thats the most insight you might get into my life but feel free to ask:3
keep up the OWNAGE AWSOME EPIC OMEGE GREAT work HI
hmm, well, im glad to hear im not the only one who wastes ime thinking of cooler ways to spell things…
i think its a great idea with the secret unlockable weapons and the bubble o pedia, would help the players by making it easier to keep track of each type of weapon, and enemy, and it ould give the game some amount of mystery.
and about the colors of the bullets, i dont remember about bt1, but i know in bt2, the enemies bullets are slightly darker red than your own, but with your color problems, i can see how it gets confusing, so i think it could help a lot of other people as well, with similar problems, if you (HI) made red bullets for enemies, and green/blue for your tanks… just a thought, maybe you should look into it?
Sweet! A health bar would be fantastic! I always hated having to be degraded after I lost too many bubbles on BT 1 and 2. A simple idea about having such an aspect would be that along with bubbles, points, etc. that a player collects/wins that a player regains health on their bar. Also along with the designing of you own tanks or up grading them, when you have enough points you can purchase/append additional health to your health bar.
-Thank you for seriously considering this
P.S.
I’m just a middle school student with a colossal terminology and I.Q.
Yea I know I’m smart! Booyea!
i have a feeling that after 160 comments ppl get tired of reading this… bout time for a new blog maybe…
yea, there certainly are a lot of great ideas here, and a lot of bad ones to… But in any case, the health bar is one of the best ideas that has been put on this board, for so many reasons, among others are these:
1. Possibly the most anoying aspect of BT 1 & 2 is the fact that you cant see how far away you are from being downgraded without constantly consuming bubbles.
2. The health bar would help you keep track of how much hp the enemies (if your putting them on enemies aswell, not only yourself)have left, and thereby helping you keep track of what enemy is the greatest threat.
3. It will help with giving the game a touch of eleganse and still keep the game in that simple fashion we all love about the BT games.
And personaly, im not getting tired of reading these posts, i think its refreshing to see all the new ideas the people keep coming up with:)
ok hi im bored i red all the new stuff and
CHEESE!
yay:|
Well it has been about 2 months since u said it would be about 2 months till it will be released so…. its not out…. got any snapshots for us yet…
I don’t think we ever said the game would be out in two months. We might have said we’d try or we hoped or that it was possible, but we’d never give you an idea for this game. We just don’t know. Hopefully we’ll have something for you all to look at soon, though.
well, when you made this post on march 29 you wrote in the post: We joke that the release date will be in 2012 just to make SURE we’ll have the game released before when we promise, but realistically I think we’re looking at about 2 months yet before the game is out.
so you did say two months, and so far, its been one month and like 4-5 days, so you still have a long time left to finish it, and its fine if it takes a little longer than that, like another month or two, because you should take all the time you need to make the game as good as possible… (i think i’ve said that like 5 times)
but anyway, keep up the DEVINE AND GODLIKE work, and make the game the best it can be at your own speed and rate, and forget what these morons are saying about making it come out sooner and all that, personally, i got plenty to keep me busy:)(sorry for calling you morons, it’s nothing personal, just that you are morons for telling them to speed up the process of making the game, it is pretty clear that you have never made a game yourself, and therefor do not know that it is a long and time consuming process with all the grafic work and programming and what not, so give the people at HI some credit, they are working hard to get this game out and keep theyr fans happy, and i for one, are/am/is(?) very happy, so like i said, keep up the DEVINE AND GODLIKE work your doing)
P.S.
I think this might be the longest thread i’ve posted here ever (or possible even the longest anyone has posted), but i cant be sure before i read all the other posts, or at the very least look at them, witch im not sure if im going to do, because there is a LOT of posts…
P.S.S(?)
I might be making this thread longer and longer on purpose, just because i dont have anything better to do with my time right now, but dont let that stop you from reading it. or, whatever, i dont care, do whatever you want…
The game will be done when it’s done. It will not be done in a month, I can tell you that.
When we know more, we’ll tell you, I promise!
oh.. it has only been one month well srry.. my bad… well enjoy programing and all that.
well, like i said in my very long message, dont rush it, take all the time you need, and also, thanks for lettign us know its gona take more than a month:)
HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO MAKE THE BUBBLE TANKS 1 AND 2??????????????????????????
I imagine BTA will take much longer to make than BT2 and definitely longer than BT1. Just think, they have to program a tank creator and customizable arenas. As for the health bar comments, doesn’t the bar along the bottom in BT2 serve that purpose?
well pirate defence got a 67% on people who liked it once this game comes out it should rank like a 97% at least…
(97% on bubble tanks areana)
well DeadlyMollusk, the bar at the bottom of the screen in BT2 does have that effect, but it goes away just a few seconds after you stop collecting bubbles, what we are talking about, is a permanent health bar, that stays.
and as for the 97%, im sure your probly right, it would be 100, if only people who play the game voted, but there are always some a$$#¤%!” that have to ruin everything, and because of that, nothig will ever be 100%, tho still 97% is great…
I think it’s a shame that Pirate Defense only scored a 7.4 on Armor Games. Bubble Tanks 2 is still on their most popular games list and scored around 9.2.
i think they should of made bubble tanks easy’er to get your bubbles because once you lost some it took me forever to get them back beacause at the time your shooting the enemy u lose EVEN MORE BUBBLES! hopefully this game will be a bit faster to get bubbles.
god… i hope the game comes out during summer break
sry i havent posted in a while
im not sure why im posting
i just felt like it
im suspended from school
so im super bored
im replacing comas and periods with enters
:3
yay
the health ar thing is kind of pointless because you alredy have the bubble colecting bar but i do have an idea/question
how will the scoring work with this is your bubles going to be seperate from your liefe and are we even going to have bubles or just the score from killing automaticaly??
hmm, hard to say for sure, that is a very good question D4V3, and im looking forward to hearing the answer…
sorry about the suspension, you mind saying why?
we were waching a movie in class when the kid behind me kept hiting me with his water bottle so i punched him in the faic and got us both suspended
heres some stuff i would suggest 1.meele wepons 2.power ups 3.wepons from enimies such as 360 spiral gun rotating michine gun etc… 4.time bombs 5.flame thrower 6.difrent sized arenas 7.rotating sheild 8.invinsible for a short amount of time 9.multiple bosses/boss at end of level 10.energy obsorfer (for your tank) 11.contrall:turns 1 enimie good for some time 12.MAKE SURE TO PUT IT ON KONGREGATE PLLLZZZ
to bad D4V3, but he had it coing, i would probly do the same… so what movie was it? anything good?
and zharrrhen, those are some good ideas, but a couple things, number 10, and number 11, first, whats obsorfer? do you mean to say absorber? and second, contrall = control?
also, im sure they will put it on kongregate, if they dont, there are tons of other places to put it.
now for a sugestion of my own, if it doesnt take to long.
i might have asked this before, but i’ma ask again anyways: remote detonated bombs?
you hit space(or whatever) once to launch, then again to detonate. what do you think?
sorry if i asked this before, but im not gona use like half an hour to read trough 180 messages, to look for something i may or may not have asked before, im just to lazy for that.
and, if this message has nothing at all to do with you or anyone you know, then im sorry for wasting your time with it.
also, zharrrhen, if number 10 is energy absorber, thehn how does it work?
i like the remote detonated bombs
so i had to manouver rather weirdly to aim and not leave the feild witch brings me to another thing,
also in bt2 the heavy heavy heavy 4 and heavy heavy heavy 2 had moving bubbles that linked the two portions will we be able to do this i thought that was reely cool
also, zharrrhen
good idea with the directional controll thing i hated on how the super heavy u had this huge ass bubble cannon but i couldent aim it
when you left a bubble feild all the bubbles you harvested disapear, i had trouble staying in the bubblefeilds so could you by anychance make it so that you had to push the esc button to leave and that would teleport you to the last feild you were in, so you could only leave a feild if you cleared it or hit the escape key.
by the way there already is a bubble absorber weapon in bubble tank 2. for this weapon u shot the gun at an enemy then bubbles start flying at you with out killing any enemies. i think the tank that had it was called the leach tank or somthin like that. oh and for your invisibility idea, i would vote ageist it after all i hate the star man in supper smash brothers
yes Necoo it is leecher or somethign like the enemy tank that shoot something that looks like an kind of “Bubble Sucker”(lol) xD
on a scale from 1-10, how much progress have you guys made?
we have made cheese!
cheese… i want cheese… mmmmmmmm…
from 1-10 i think 20
Okay everybody, lets keep our comments related to the game please. We actually had forums for things like this but nobody ever used them.
Woohoo, game is going to be released this month =)
Really looking forward to it.
forrums for what?? cheese(i have an afinity for cheese)
yay
OWND!!
ok so will there be mele weapons
i dont see how but will there be a flamethrower(how does a bubble shot fire fill them with butane???)
remote bombs are cool
can there please be some way to aim the tank (huge bubble cannon was reely hard to aim:P)
will there be moving bubbles
there is that enough game related stuff
i feel as tho i should talk nonstop
herointeractive guys
is there anny posible way for me to join you mabee in a couple of years im only 14
cheese and on that note
have a good tiem and keep up the good work HI.:)
Here’s an idea; when an enemy tank dies, maybe some of the weapons or devices on that tank could left behind and then picked up or attached to your tank.
i already sugested that
well, i think it would be cool, if when you beat an enemie parts of theyr tanks get scattered around in the bubble, and just stays there like debris, ofcourse, it could be cool with picking them up, but to make the game more realistic, you shouldnt be able to do that, since in real life, when something gets blown up, you normally cant re-use the parts…
that would be pretty cool, or how bout if when the enemie dies it drops an info card, or something, that lets you use it in the editor. that way you can’t start with the best weapon. or if when you beat an arena certain weapons become avalible. sort of like bot arena 3.
you said in the intro thingy for this page that you were looking at two months. that was at the end of march, do you think it will be out by the end of May/start of june?
thank you HI for reading my comment and all your great games.
Maybe when the enemy is damaged pieces of their tank containing weapons could just break off intact. Then when you drove over them the surface tension would suck them up onto your tank.
Remember those tanks in BT2 that had strings of three or four bubbles connecting their parts? If the link is broken, the other half isn’t necessarily destroyed or unusable.
this blog post is outdated if you want to be heard post on the bta update page this is final anyone who posts after this is stupid
well, i might be stupid, but, i still got post number 200! yey! go me! lol…
Hey seph, about how long is it that u comment is there like a schedule???
yeah..steph…rudy meant that when he was going to be in grade 5 in 2012, he meant he would be in grade 8 u.s. education equivalent. He’s probably in an e.u. country where grades go k(optional), 1,2,3,4,5,6: (counting years to end of high school)5,4,3,2,1,done with high school!
anyone that takes a european language class or ever has would know
Awsome, but I think it needs wepons like 360 pulse cannon or like dissasemble, ya know all the old weapons, Oh! And Third weapon slot!
COME ON, it’s May 26, 2009 you guys said in March it’d be out sometime in May I’m not angry just saying that it’d be a bummer if it came out after summer break so i can’t play just try to have the game in the summer. And cool games Hero Interactive love ‘em.
ca there be like 6-7-8 weapon slots, and add rockets too.
and add a weapon that brakes into more like this.
””””””””””””””””””””””””’
o o o
\!/
———–oo
/!\
o o o
if bubble tanks is a hero interactive game why has
armor games got the extras, sorry if im wrong
can you upgrade weapons so the get stronger and that.
and when you upgrade weapons they change color,
they could go white,brown,yello,green,pink,red,blue,bronz,silver,gold,black.
DeadlyMollusk,good idea about weapons snaping off
but you will get like 50 guns and you will be unstoppable they should come off rarely
you could have bubble tank mini games like kill 50 tiny guys in ??secs, or collect as many bubbles as you can in ??secs.
This is probably a big subject but, will there be a save feature?It would really help.If there is a save feature I will be able to save,go to a different page,then come back and my data won’t be lost.
I think the best way to get weapons and bubbles to add on to your tank would that when you defeat an enemy bubble tank you would get a prize sort of thing like for big huge tanks you would probably get a cool gun and for easy tanks you would get just plain bubbles to add on for armor. I know it is way, way too late for suggestions because right now you are probably test running and fixing glitches right now but I like to give my opinion.
Oh, wow like 10 other people already had that idea, my bad…………
why is there not a boss on bubble tanks 1
Um, if this is your job, then who pays you the money???
Maybe a really heavy weapon that can kill any enemy in one shot, and i thinck a good name for it is a “Super Cannon”.
That would be funny if there was a Bubble tanks…………………………..9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
oh yeah i suggested this kind of game on armor games and started it all
wootzer i always wanted to creat my very own bubble tank, but also my own weapon, i also have alot of ideas for guns, e-mail me for idea
will there be a save in the game since it’ll probably take a long tim to get tokens
It auto saves…Next time read the thing please…
ummmm how much longer till its released! im so excited ppl!
when is bta coming out? hurry up!!!! i can’t wait any longer!!!!!!!!!!! get a move on!!!!!!!!
cmon guys, have patience. It comes out when it comes out an it will be AAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!