Bubble Tanks Arenas Update #2
Those of you who are looking forward to Bubble Tanks Arenas will be happy to know that we’ve been making a lot of progress on the game these past few weeks, and as most of the team is on the project we should have a lot more updates and progress in the weeks to come. From here on out we’re going full throttle on the production of BTA till it’s completion. How much is left to do? A TON. The game brings a lot of new and complicated features which are taking a long time to develop. But be patient, because we’ll get there.
I thought I’d do some Q&A. If you have questions, feel free to leave them as comments. I can’t promise I’ll answer them, but I may make another post with some more information. Well, here we go…
Q: Is Bubble Tanks Arenas the same as Bubble Tanks 3?
A: No. BT3 is not BTA. Arena’s is a different game that has a slightly different spin on the game. Bubble Tanks 3 will be more similar to the standard BT fare.
Q: Is BTA multiplayer?
A: No. I think multiplayer would be awesome and some day we may have the money, time, and knowledge of how to go about it.
Q: What makes BTA different?
A: BTA allows you to make and share your own bubble tanks. You can also make enemy tanks and arenas. You can store saved content on your computer or you can upload your creations to our servers and share them with the world. You can also download other people’s creations.
Rather than being able to float around the world freely, this will be a more intense game played inside arenas. An arena is a series of bubblefields with some sort of challenge, usually to defeat all the enemies within a set amount of time (ex. Defeat all the enemies in 10 bubblefields in 5 minutes). You will be able to die in an Arena which will bring you back to the Arena select screen, in BT2 death wasn’t possible. Completing Arenas will earn you new parts for your tanks, increased size, etc…
Q: Do you know the release date for BTA?
A: No. There is no release date set yet. Stop asking. 
Q: Can you tell us how far you are through the game development process?
A: No, we don’t know the exact percentage. We can decide to add or change things up until we release, so we’re never 100% sure if we’re going to make the project larger. Also, if we discover a huge bug right at the end, it could push us back a week or so. We just don’t know.
Q: Can you release a demo at least?
A: No. There is not going to be a demo for BTA. Making a demo would take far too long and add weeks to BTA’s development time. We can’t just release the tank creator. It doesn’t work that way.
Q: Is BTA going to be free to play?
A: Yes. There are no paid-for expansions. All the content will be free.
Q: Will BTA have Extra Content?
A: Yes. Enemy and Arena creation are likely to be part of the Extra Content version. Please note: The money we receive from EC versions of our games is what is making BTA possible!
Q: Will there be a limit to how big I can make my tanks?
A: Of course. Size wise, you can make them pretty huge by the end of the game, larger even than the BFT from BT2. You also have Gun Points and Bubble Points. Weapons and abilities cost GP. The more GP you have, the more you’ll be able to purchase bigger weapons and dish out more damage. Then there is BP- the more bubbles and parts you use, the more BP you’ll use. BP is used to help keep the complexity down on the tanks, otherwise we’re sure some tanks would get out of hand and crash people’s computers.
Q: Do you HAVE to create your own tanks?
A: Nope! We’ll have plenty of pre-built tanks ready for you and the game will recommend tanks that are perfect for you. You can even modify and edit our pre-built tanks.
Q: Will BTA save my progress?
A: Yes, the game will automatically save in between arenas.
That’s all for now! If you have questions, feel free to leave them in the comments section and some day you might see them answered in a post like this!
yay, thats AMAZING!!!
This looks awesome! I also really like the font you’ve been using for the pre-loader and title screens for the Bubble Tanks series.
P.S. Any news on the StormWinds game?
too cool!!!
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Wow wow wow wow wow! you guys are really making me like eat myself! i just cant wait!
hello,i cant wait 4 it!!! it looks like like uh…awesomeness!!!
p.s i loooove the bubble tanks series
p.s.s if its better than b t 2 im going to die!
p.s.s.s the pictres are so cool
p.s.s.s.s the video rocks!!
p.s.s.s.s.s i wont leave so many s’s in my other comments
Finally an update!!!!!!!!!
will there be cheats for bp & gp
Looks really cool
omg this game is gonna be awsome yea omg this is so cool
Great! I’m waiting for it! I’m sure it’ll be GREAT!!
hmm if you guys say that there is
still A TON of work.
doe that mean that the game will be released after late summer, or in the year 2025.4
Just waiting for the release.
wait i think i heard that he said something about a bt3 YES A HYPOTHETICAL POSSIBILE ANOUNCEMENT OF A TO BE ANOUNCED GAME YES!
are you guys planning on makeing the abilty to face other peoples tanks?
Very cool.
So, if we can create new arenas, what is special about the arenas themselves? Are there obstacles or fixed enemy turrets or is that creator just the layout of the bubble-fields… I feel you’re leaving something out
Also, unofficial announcement that they might think about making BT3 sometime before 2025… maybe
FINA-FREAKING-LY new news!!!
its looking awesome i hope you dont encounter some huge bug, if you did i might smash my computer.
keep on bubbling.
how mutch pecent of the game is bilt or
how mutch % of the game is made
ps this is not a coplante i just want to know we can work out by the % made how long is left
ex 50% in 2 years it will take 2 more years
my gess is that 78% is made
A few questions and comments. 1) thankyou SO much for the blog post, its very reasurring. 2) how can u be working harder no than u were before? i thought lk only 2 people work on it at a time. 3)Let’s say im playing on armor games. I make a really cool tank and save it. I then go onto kongregate.com. Can I acces my tank from armor on kongregate? 4) If u buy a gun for 40GP, could u then sell it back for 40GP and can u get unlimited points or is there a limited amount for the game? thanks lot
I AM MAKING A POWER POINT PRESHONTASHON RIGHT NOW ON BTA TIME 27/1/2010 9:34PM
Awesome!!! :O
Yert has a very good point.
Do you upload the tank to your server with a number attached? Type the number (or browse the list), get the tank, regardless of site.
Big Question
If you save a custom tank will you have to write down the number to retrieve it or does it also save locally?
cool!!!!!! p.s.awesome!!!!!!!!
p.s.s.can you update this more
p.s.s.s.yert111 has a very good point (PIKACHU to)
p.s.s.s.s.again cool!!!!!!!!(and awesome!!!!!!)
p.s.s.s.s.s.I wish i could not stop
@yert1111,
I dont think you will be able to have unlimited gun points. Heres my reason. When you are shooting soo many guns, it will critically slow your computer down, or freeze all-together.
Anywayz, thanks alot for the update, now my computer does not have to slow down for the other comments… for now. Then there will be so many comments, it does the same thing-until you release another update or the game.
Looks great, thanks, and to everyone who is reading this, they have no idea on what the percentage is. untill they release it, I garuntee it will be below 100%.
Sickness! i cant wait till it comes out!
sounds like a ton of fun >:)
Very nice!!!
The concept is great
I got the idea to make a RTS,of course based on Bubble-Tanks.
Way to go!!
WHY did it take 3 months to put up a new update for bta
Yay! I’m so excited that you guys are going full-throttle! I guess the reason we haven’t had an update in so long was because you weren’t going full steam, but I guess now the updates and completion will come along much quicker now.
ps: @PIKACHU: about the “percent complete” estimate you were asking for, read the post a bit more thoroughly. They said they’re not sure how much more they’re going to add on, so they’re not sure how big the final draft will be.
Sorry for the double post, but here’s a question that I asked earlier:
I your tank builder vid, you showed that you could change the direction that the gun faced. I assume this is so that you can build guns that shoot backwards, etc.
On tanks that don’t rotate with the mouse (super heavy), will those guns rotate free of the tank? or will we have to drag the whole tank around, like with the super heavy’s cannon?
Blimey! Another update! Lookin’ good so far! Keep up the pace. We know it’ll be awesome!
P.S. Why is most everyone saying P.S.?
P.P.S. I’m very excited!
‘Q: Is BTA going to be free to play?
A: Yes. There are no paid-for expansions. All the content will be free.’ YAY!!! and Goon EVERYONE is excited and impatient
Sorry for the dual-post, chaps, but in the tanks’ screenshot, what are those peach-colored bubbles? Some kind of upgrade…?
will there be turrets that automatically shoot at enemies? and can you at least give us a couple of examples of what you are still trying to code like making bubbles coming out of enemies and so on?
OMFG THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT ANSWERED ALL MY QUESTIONS!!! (disregard my angry comments i was well angry) OMFG btw will there be a tank coloring thing like you could be patriotic and make it RW&B or like make it traditional blue and also even though you already beat a arena can you replay it for more points?
P.S. THANK YOU SO FREAKING MUCH FOR THE UPDATE GUYS!!!!!
Q: Is BTA going to be free to play?
A: Yes. There are no paid-for expansions. All the content will be free.
Q: Will BTA have Extra Content?
A: Yes. Enemy and Arena creation are likely to be part of the Extra Content version. Please note: The [money we receive]- So is this saying there is no pay-for extra content, but there is extra content you have to pay for?
finaly an update and i cant wait to play it
can u give us a way to download the BT font for our computer, that would be cool to hand in a paper with that font!
Here’s some fun yet sad facts about this game:
1. It is being made over the course of currently 18 months
2. Over 5 games have been released during the making.
3. There has been comments for this game.
4. And the single most commented blog post possibly in HI history is “BTA Tank Editor” with 699 comments. Who wants to be the 700th?
5. There has also been 10 blog posts for this
game
More facts about HI coming soon.
Oh, sorry on number 3 it didn’t show up. Here is the real one…
3. There has been 2,567 comments for this game.
Now that’s an impressive number.
awsome. after yesterday i posted something (and btw i am stop complaining from the last blog post) on the last blog post and it said something like “developers no offense but it is taking a while for an update” and here it is!!! lol… i cant beileive it… this game is actually taking 18 months? wow… (developers, no offense im not trying to be rude or anything sry) bye first post on this blog post/update post. : =)
You forgot the most important fact of all!
6. This game has had the most complaints in HI history.
yay! 35th comment. I love bubble tanks!
BTA is near!
YaYz FiNaLlY An UpDaTe!!!!!!! IVE been waiting 4 an update 4ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D
Sorry the Q&A was a little confusing. The game is free to play. The extra content is free to play. We have a deal set up with Armor Games to make extra content exclusive to them, that’s all we were saying before. You won’t have to pay for anything.
i heard a hypotheticalBT3 stated in there!! so…could we use our created tanks from BTA for BT3?i know that would be hard but it would be cool!
Wow. Lotsa comments. Thanks for the update. So, I’m getting the impression that the Tank Editor is almost done or done. Keep up the good work.
to clarify my questions about the unlimited gun points, i meen lets say i buy the big gun for 10 points. I then realize that i wanted the fast gun which cost 10 points. could i sell my big gun back for the same price (10 points) and get the small gun? or do u loose money when u sell stuff back?
Omg the day is not even over and you have arouund 50 messages… wow
Anyway, i’m really happy to see this update (while, at the same time, it’s getting annoying that people keep asking for dates and %)
All i can say is, keep going and keep looking forward!!
Oh and, THANKS!!!!!!!!!
fimally an update yey yeah that might last us a month
i got a question. Will there be stuff like infinite BP and GP for people who think the game is to difficult
p.s you guys should like make a youtube account and put all updates on that. That would be awesome.
Infinite BP & GP would enable you to build ENORMOUS tanks that would lag your computer considerably. Now that just won’t do, won’t it?
whOOOLY Shiet! At Least some news… when i come home from students hostel its always my first thing o check on BTA progress… i was always kind of disapointed when no update were posted… but now… when i saw BTA update #2… i jumped out of my chair, jumped out of my window and started shouting: “AT LEAST!! THANX MY GOD FOR AWNSERING MY PRAYERS!” and started rolling on the grass. The peapole whos saw me was kinda shocked but i dont care. And after it i actualy read what it said and i thought to myself “Omg … how many it will take” and calmed myself knowing atleast you are working on it.
P.s. May the cookie be with you!
P.s.s. BTA 4 LIFE!
WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Thank you! Finally some proof that it didn’t die
will class be picked auto ??? why dont you mix bubble tanks with stormwinds that would be sweet can you have a sandbox mode aka unlimited gp is there a chain gun
Q:will bta be on ds
ps: i want to know because i have a ds if so i can play it on holday i normly go on holday 19th of desember untill new years eve
After this they’re making a Bubble Tanks 3??
AWESOME!!!
hoped for the multiplayer, none is coming so it’s not a long-time game.
But it will be awesome anyways. ^^
BTA 4 EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will there be a lot more classes and upgrade choices in BT3? and will there even be a BT3??????? PLZ Respond!!!!
After this you should start BT3!
Could you let them finish BTA first?
alright ****ing sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you god
just waiting for BTA makes my curiosity and excitement go through the roof man i am going to play BTA more times than ever if this is what i hope it to be i just won’t know what to do >_
you should research how to make multiplayer games then make bt multiplayer edition or something similar to that…. perhaps btmmo or something…. of course finish bta before messing with that….
Can’t wait for the next update.
I know you guys have been bogged down with constant comments asking for a release date, and I understand you don’t and won’t have one. What I need to know, and what I am sure everybody is looking for is a rough guestimate. The game has taken over a year now, and I simply wish to know whether I can expect the game in a couple months, this winter, or sometime next year. I don’t need a specific date or anything, but given how much progress you guys have made thus far and how much left to do (and possibly to do), can we expect the game in weeks, months, or years???
Here’s an interesting idea!!!!!!
You can’t verse others on PvP, BUT!!!!!! Could we upload the tanks from others, and the computers control the uploaded tank???? I think that’d be AWESOME, and atleast you made the title screen >.> Plus, the uploaded tanks are kinda bad, but it’s for lazy people who don’t wanna make a tank, but the tanks are OK and it’s cool with GP and BP, makes it more challenging then getting 8594825points and unlocking everything…..
Goon, Haven’t you ever played the BT games before this?? The peach bubbles are the weapons. Anyways, I’m really glad you guys made a new update. I predict BTA will be released in 2013.
this surely will be mega hard.
hey guys its me again/stop complaining. its cool that you guys put in pics to i love em. i cant wait until it comes out. and i dont think it’ll be a WHOLE nother year until the game comes out. i predict maybe 6 months at the max maybe 8.and the title screen… AWSOME. this is BTA WANTER leaving. (static)……………………………………………………………………………………………………
@cerberus. goon means those pinky coloured bubbles not the yellow ones
This is going to be suck a good game! Can’t wait. And, I’m addiced to BT2
in stead of multiplayer in BT3 u could do something easier like try to beat an actual players time (a time trial) u dont have to play with tht person but only tht persons time is kept! and also(this is off topic) u could have Bubble Tanks Racing!!!
You won’t be able to customize the colors of the bubbles in the tank editor…I think somebody asked that so I thought I’d clear it up. Also, to those of you STILL asking for a release date/progress bar/guesstimate/estimate/percentage complete/etc! please reread this blog post as well as the many other times we addressed this in our previous posts. Thanks!
lawl
Yay, maybe impatient idiots can stop begging and crying week after week now…
For the limited BP and GP, can there be an option for unlimited BP and GP? With a message saying “If you check this box HeroInteractive is not liable to any permanent damage caused by overheating of your computer due to excessive bubbles/bullets. Knowing this, do you still want to proceed?”
Also, the “Search 4 tanks” looks very
professionalunprofessional.back to necoo on January 28th, 2010 point
when you finish bta you can make it mutiplayer and releace as bta mutiplayer not over riting 1 player bta
yeah yeah yeah BTA yeah yeah yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This looks so awsome =D. I can’t wait! But you said all content will be free then said that there will extra content wich you pay for. Further down some one mentioned a gun point limit incase your computer lags. Maybe an option for slower computers is to have a box which you tic if you have a slow computer which limits the amount of guns you have and the amount the enemy has.
Just pick one, HI:
Weeks
Months
Years
81:st comment!! Thanks for answering many of my questions
This is SO awsome!!!!
Nope! Sorry…
@AlexanderJC Months and Weeks, i’d say. 7 Months and 2 Weeks.
@Kratos,
I give it about 2 to 3 months. If they already have sample tanks ready, then they are VEEERRRYYY close.
can you guys at least tell us what you have left
im not on HI team but im guessing the coding for the enemy AI and maybe some more arenas and most likely the EC for armor games but i would wait and see what HI says about it
In my opinion, I’d give it about… hmm… the time it takes to finish up coding for a massive game with only 1 or 2 chaps working on it at a time.
stil havent answered my question…
speed dude, they said they still have a LOT left, and making guesses about the time is pointless since they’re the only ones that would have a better guess than the person who asked the question.
This is epic I am starting to get some patients back now.I am extremely excited I am glad you guys are making progress. Question umm… will there be any difficulty settings and also will there be unlockable mega weapons for doing certain things?
AWESOMESAUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i cant wait until the game comes out and whoever said he thinks it’ll come out in 2013 is crazy thats 3 years from now… btw i cant wait!!! i think that this game will be out in maybe 9 months or so. (im just guessing!!!) i mean im not sure but still. this (crack) is (crack) BTA (crack) wanter (crack)……… (static)……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Guys, you all need to stop asking for anything related to a release date. They have stated many, many times that there is NO official release date, and they will not respond to questions asking when it will be released.
But on a positive note: Glad to see a new BTA post with good news, keep going guys. :]
thay look at all coments everyday so if we did not coment it will take a bit quicker
DIS IZ GONNA B SO ****IN AWSIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IM GONNA MAKE A TANK WIV 5 HOLE HEVY CANONZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you can add text it will be awesome! is there a limit to bubblefields?
But…
Is there a BEAM GUN That fires a bubble beam? (as in, A beam of bubbles fired so fast it’s like they’re connected?)
If there is…
IM GONNA MAEKZ A MINI SUPA HEVY WIV A BEEM GUHN IN FRUNT INSTED OF DA HYOODJE PEECE OF CRUD CALLD A SUPA-HEVY CANNON, AND ITZ GONNA HAVE 2 DUBBLE MINIGUHNZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(1 on each side)
Sooooo…
Ya. thatz wot im gonna dooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bubble beam is a pokemon move
Some weapons sudgestions:
1. Rail gun.
2. Gravity mine.
3. Timing gravity mine (sucks enemys near it and seven seconds after it was launched explodes in an area burst style).
4. Schield wall mine.
5. Orbital death field.
6. Weakening seekers (once an enemy has been hit it becomes slower, has a slower firing rate, does less damage, and recieves more damage).
7. Piearcing seekers (with low damage).
8. Area burst mine ( works as an area burst tower from BTTD, Onlie with limited ammo).
9. Tower spawner (works as a drone spawner from BT2, onlie instead of spawning drones it spawns towers).
10. Hologram device (projeckts a hologram of the user and draws atention of enemies, in time they understand its fake).
11. Gravity atatchment (atatch a smal device to the enemie wich will suck all projecktiles to it, but onlie the closest).
12. Deflecktor shield.
13. Sticky mine (arownd that mine there will be a field in wich all enemies will get covered in sticky).
14. Elecktro statick mine (will projeckt a lightning to near by enemies).
15. explosive drones (can not shot, but when destroyed wil cause an area burst explosion).
There have to be some accessories,like boosters n’ even fire rate increasers.
Also u could add gun like da heavy cannon only dat it can’t fire by itself instead it creates a sort of gravitational bubble that pulls all the bubbles u fire into 1 massive destructive bubble which has all the properties of all da bullets it has absorbed like burst area spread,slow etc etc.
Also a another cannon that fires a huge beam(like posted by some1 abov)which is recieved by a sheild like area in frn of it the spreads it everywhere.Pretty less damage but huge spread.
P.S these are all heavy weapons.
@lietuvis53,
Here are some flaws with your sugestions…
1. Rail gun-It would have very limited range
2. Gravity mine-best against fighters, plus the bigger enemys would be to big and cause oober lag
3. Timing gravity mine-same as last
4. Shield wall mine-what if you had a ginormus ship
5. Orbital death field-good idea
6. Weakening seekers-that is basicly what seekers do currently. just with out the slower and weeker fire rate
7. Piearcing seekers-good idea
8. Area burst mine-very good idea, like a trip wire mine though
9. Tower spawner-the re-charge rate would be super slow
10. Hologram device-would require a webcam
11. Gravity atatchment-would be a slow fire rate, and what if you miss
12. Deflector shield-what if you had a huge ship.
13. Sticky mine-try using a sticky burst mine. that would be better
going back to kassad,
The problem with 5 heavy cannons is it would be bulky. And im pretty sure they will finally let our drones use the lasers. Unless you want something like a 5-shot 360 cannon with the super cannons, that would be a good idea.
@clyde,
yes, but you don’t want to stop commenting all together. then they would probibly pause production.
14. Elecktro statick mine-
15. explosive drones-
sorry for the double post, but i noticed i did not finish numbers 14 and 15.
14. Elecktro statick mine-good idea, but since it is a bubble, you would electrify the entire arena
15. explosive drones-good idea
My cool weapon ideas :
1. Small nuke bomb ( 50% of bubblefield will be exploded , probably pwning everything. Reload per 3 minutes )
2. Seeker Storm ( fires out charge of small seekers ( half small as normal ones ) to random enemies
3. Smart Seeker Storm ( same as up there , only that you select one enemy to fire all of em at him )
4. Railgun ( Very limited range , but it comes out with 1.5 seeker damage and have slooow fire rate. )
5. Shockwave mine ( If it explode , nearest enemies will be shocked out. Range did not cross Class 3 ship. )
6. Electro mine * inspirated from SF:DG * ( if someone felt on it , strike of bolts will attack up to 3 enemies once. Range dont cross class 3 ship )
7. EMP mine ( works little same as stun in BT2 , only that someone need felt on it. Enemies in range of class 3 ship will be stunned for 10 seconds peroid of time )
8. Plasma cannon ( powerfull but slowly firing plasma substant firing cannon. It also hold damage effect in 5 seconds after enemy get hit. )
9. Death zone * from BT2 * ( if enemy get in it , he is getting lightly damaged as longer he hold at it. Unequippable from class 3 ships , range of effect did not cross class 3 ship. )
10. Mattery eater bomb ( Special stuff equippable only on class 5 ships , ship fire it in enemy and
eat 10% of hull. Veeeeeeery slow fire rate. )
11. Toxic missle ( work same as seeker , but it
did not deal any damage. Same as Doomsday virus in BT2 , it deals off a virus. Only that it did
not spread if ship die. )
12 ( and most powerfull in game ). SNB ( Smart Nuke Bomb ) ( It follow most powerfull enemy , and if it hit him , 75% of bubble field will be heavily damaged. Closer to middle , more damage it deal. Not work on you and stuff you sent. Reload rate is 1 shoot per 10 minutes , that is aristocratic reload , but who care? This stuff is super strong!!! )
you FINALY made a new post… when i said give a estamated i mean like the game mite be out in 6-8 months… just estamate
how about
1:a 6 way hyper minny gun 2 bullets x the 6 way minny gun = 12 bullets a second but to minimize lag the bullets are small and do harf the damage as a normal bullet
HOW ABOUT
1: A 6 WAY MECHEN GUN 12 BULLETS A SECOND
LESS LAG = SMALL BULLETS HARF THE DAMAGE OF A NORMAL BULLET
2: A FIRE BLAST MINE BLASTS FIRE WHEN HIT BY A TANK (INCLODIND YOUR TANK)SAME DAMAGE AS 2 BIG GUN BULLETS AT THE SAME TIME
3: A PIKACHU BLASTER FIRES A ELETRIC BALL (DONT SHOCK THE BUBBLE AREA ONLY ENMY TANKS) EVEN THE BIGGEST TANK WILL BE KILLED BY A NEVER ENDING ELETCIC WAVE FROM 1 BULLET TIME TO KILL BIGGEST TANK LIKE THIS TAKES 3 MINETS
SORRY FOR TRIPPLE POST BUT ONE ABOUTH THIS NUM 1 IS SAME AS THE FIRST ONE
OMG TOTALLY AWESOME ddll:d:dd:d:d:d:d:d::dJAEAIFJIDFI
Srry i had a spaz attack and was hitting the keyboard.
A really simple way to make a laser is to put 3-4 machine guns one behind the other.
And could you please stop complaining about a date? They will NOT give one! They sais that since the beginning and it’s not because YOU (yes, you) make your little comment that suddendly they will say : oh well, let’s give you a date =).
So PLS stop, it’s really annoying for everyone.
I don’t remember who said it, but he said that beacause we posted a lot of comments, it would slow them down. In fact, Steph is in charge of the blog, and(I think) she doesn’t really take an active part in programming. So don’t worry about posting. But pls don’t spam!
So, keep going HL team, and thanks for answering the questions that deserves it!
Hope to see other post soon ^^
I have a new name again! As usual. First it was AtomicSong, then NuclearSong, then Kirtus1000, now iMath.
On a separate note, although I know this is very unlikely to happen, is it possible for the ability to… Customize a bubble? Just curious.
I can’t wait for this to release!
P.S. Good Job HI!
P.P.S. Anyways, Good job on winning the award!
P.P.P.S. Can’t wait!
@ everyone excited: It will DEFINATELY be at least 4 months before this comes out. Calm down.
Q: Can you safely promise BTA will be done in 2010?
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cant waitThis is gonna ROCK!!!!
seriously. guys stop asking for a release date i mean come one… you hears them they dont know it. jease
shock weapons? underwater?
u guys are dreaming
****Weapon Ideas****
1. Spawned turret ; your tank shoots a tower out that shoots in a machine gun fashion on sight of an enemy. shoots every 0.2 seconds. reload time=4 minutes.
2. Spawned sniper ; your tank shoots a tower out that shoots heat seeking missiles. shoots every 3 seconds. reload time=4 minutes
3. Point cannon ; shoots just like a normal cannon accept gives you extra $$.
4. Mine house ; a building that shoots mines out in one direction periodically. shoots 2 every four seconds. reload time=5 minutes.
5.Cloaked mines ; invisible mines. reload time= 4 every 15 seconds
6. Bubble Nuke ; really strong bomb type bubble blows up on command 1 per match.
I think The Point canon should be called The CASH CANNON
And Pretty cool Ideas By the way
weps ……….
doom cannon: hits 1 thing and it kills any small units highly attacks large
giga spray: the oval bullet bomb of bt2 but sprays double bullet and instant explode
shot gun: heavy spray of tiny (half size of normal bullet) and they do lots of dmg (if alot of bullets hit)
single troop: same as ally swarm but only send out one more powerfull troop
super stun: stuns all enamys on screen
razor: razor what do you think
nuke: heavy damage to all in bubble
mininuke small damage to all in bubble
OMFG: double size of bt2 super cannon
I think I alittle bit of me just died and went to heaven. And I haven’t even played the game yet! Thanks for the update, new pics, and news. It’s easy to see that there are so new weapons and old weapons. but 2 questions
1)There should be some ridiculously hard arena that unlocks BLUE bubbles for the creator.
2)Just wondering about the deal with armorgames. Every game you release has had an enormous special deal with them, and has ended up in the top ten b/c of it. If its not breaching any client confidentiality, what is the deal you made?
omygod, (That’s a person’s name) you have to remember that a minute is a very long time for reloading. Also, what’s the point in shooting mines? If they move, they’re not mines anymore.
wow there are alot of coments on this blog already
I wonder if some sort of various whip weapons might be available? Like a chain link of bubbles.
Also, is there going to be any “special” pre-made tanks that might be something from a past or future game? Like a chopper from Storm Winds.
Are there screenshots of the arena(s) that we battle in?
For all of you people hoping your wepon ideas will come to life, Im pretty sure they have all of their wepons made. if not, then they might still be developing new ones that might be better than all of the suggestions… however, the electric idea is a good idea. shock all seekers or fighters, depending on level of tank. like the b, L, s, swarm, and the wing fighter. However it would not have much affect on other tanks.
5 cubed, GET!
notice how comments on all the other topics are sluggish in coparison to the inflation of this one.
Yes! Another update! Guys they wont tell you the update, and sorry for dampening your spirits but I dont think HI is adding any of your ideas into the game! Oh and for one of the near first comments who said ‘he’ there can be girl programmers, Steph is a girl,
betcha didnt know that! and if you want info read the other blogs, most questions have already been answered in a different blog post. >.>
CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS!!! I’M GONNA EXPLODE FROM ANTISAPATION!!!! THIS IS GOING TO BE GREAT!!……sorry about all caps…..
@ThatGuy Steph is a chick??… how do you know
have you met him… or her or what is it is??
NO WAY!!! STEPH IS A CHICK!!! i was looking through the Blogs and found a blog saying “Today is jared and Steph’s second wedding anniversary.” Oh my God
@I posted this comment:
That’d sure leave a burning hole in my brain if Steph was really Stephen.
Speed Dude why would the hologram device need the web cam? Its just flying arownd doing nothing and bulets just fly straight throue it and it disapears in about nine secs
First off, Steph is not short for Stephen, but Stephenie. And if you don’t believe me I’m sure she’ll be happy to make that clear.
Second off, do NOT stop giving suggestions. Even if they already finished most of the weapons it’s still fun to listen to your guys’ ideas. And who knows, they might put it in the rumored “Bubble Tanks 3″
weps ……….
doom cannon: hits 1 thing and it kills any small units highly attacks large
giga spray: the oval bullet bomb of bt2 but sprays double bullet and instant explode
shot gun: heavy spray of tiny (half size of normal bullet) and they do lots of dmg (if alot of bullets hit)
single troop: same as ally swarm but only send out one more powerfull troop
super stun: stuns all enamys on screen
razor: razor what do you think
nuke: heavy damage to all in bubble
mininuke small damage to all in bubble
OMFG: double size of bt2 super cannon
acid: med size acid puddle doing small damage to whats in the puddle
auto mg: auto gun like bt2 but rapid
mine spray: sprays mines
super mine: very powerful mine
pearce bullet mg: the oval bullets but rapid fire
double chaingun: two chainguns in 1
bounce shield: normal shield but if hit bullets bounce off
bounce bullet: hits bounces hits another bounces again
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one of the best weps can be nvc nuke virus cannon
virus but gets every thing in bubble
super OMFG another super wep my OMFG but double sized
a pierce bullet but as big as a huge bullet and it is VERY deadly
huge bullet mg style holy cheese sticks on a bun
large seekers big seekers booom bbbbboooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmm
large shotgun bang bangy bang bang pow powzzzzz
please comment
HAHAHA! This may be the third debate over my gender in the past year! Yes…Steph is short for Stephanie which is a WOMAN’S name in America. I’m a girl. Hope that clears things up.
Its weird that know one knew Steph was a girl…who would think of a boy named Steph,and stop posting when will the game come out.
Will you at least be able to put emotions on the gold bubbles? LIke a smiley, an angry face, or even a moustache?
…hehe, a moustache.
WHAT?! STEPH IS A GIRL?!
@imath,
True, it is fun to watch people and their crazy ideas. However, i also had no idea steph was a chick until one of the other game posts. It has to suck having your gender talked about.
WHAT?! JARED’S A GUY?!?! *faint*
Steph is a ma’am? Good lord! Uhh, no offense.
You guys are silly.
Ahh, no matter how many times Steph explains that she is in fact ‘She’, it will always cause amazement. People will also never stop thinking that she is slowing down development because she leaves comments, when she isn’t a dev at all.
If so many people are surprised, this site must have grown very largely over the past three or four months.
More weapons suggestions(”MORE?!?!”):
1. Weak gravity vortex: opens a bubble of pure, unadulterated gravity at your mouse pointer. Will not work against larger tanks.
2. Triple pierce: fires 3 rounds of pierce cannons in side-by-side fashion. Not good for enemy FIghters.
3. Sticky pierce: fires a sticky round which passes through the enemy and stickifies the unlucky enemy behind it.
4. B-day: fires a nuclear bomb, which, when detonated, will annihilate(I think that,s how you spell it…?) all enemies on screen. Can only be used once per life.
5. Strong gravity vortex: unleases a gravity bubble of god-like proportions, pulling in all enemies(including massive tanks) into it.
6. Sticky missile: fires a missile(duh) which, when it strikes an enemy, stickifies it. Very good vs. those blasted tiny fighters.
7. A.N.I.M.A.L.: it stands for Annihilating Nuclear Intercepting Missiles And Leechers. In short, it fires a barrage of missiles and doomsday infectors. Costs A LOT of pennies, but worth it when you hear the blood-curdling cry of fifty-thousand bubble tanks screaming and begging for mercy! MWAHAHAHAHA! Sorry, got a little out of hand there.
8. Barrage balloon: launches a realistically fake balloon disguised as a small bubble tank. Your enemies will fall for the trick and start shooting it, leaving them vulnerable to your attack. But be quick, for once the barrage balloon takes too much damage, it shall crash and burn!
9. Assault cannon: it took a lot of thinking for this one. As you hold down the “fire” button, the assault cannon’s rate of fire increases. But when held down for too long, it will spaz out and overheat for a time, leaving you oh-so vulnerable to the enemy attack.
10. Time cannon(have I mentioned this before?): when fired, it emits some sort of EMP, slowing down ALL enemies on screen AND all of their bullets. Kinda like the Matrix, in a way.
UBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Goon, great ideas and you spelled annihilate correctly.
as an estamate how long do you think it will take to be done
@goon: awsome weapon ideas! and as much as i would LOVE to hear the blood-curdling screams of 50′000 bubble tanks screaming for mercy, while i simply laughed at them, you seem to be a bit OVEREXITED about hearing the blood-curdling screams of 50′000 bubble tanks screaming for mercy, while u simply laughed at them
Here are a few of my own questions.
* How is tank speed determined? Is it determined by the size of the tank, or the mass?
* Will the tank rotate according to size like in BT2, where the small and medium tanks rotated the mouse and the big tanks rotated with the arrow keys?
* In Bubble Tanks, what is the meaning of life?
Now I shall attempt to answer a few questions.
Q: When will BTA approximately be completed?
A: Sometime between this post being posted and the day BTA is submitted to ArmorGames.
Q: Steph is a girl?!
A: 1. Steph is a girl’s name. 2. Girls don’t exist on the internet (outside of facebook and myspace). Add 1 and 1 together. Steph is obviously a robot.
Q: OMFG BUBBLE TANKS ARENAS! OH SNAP! I CANT WAAAAAAAAAIT! BUUUUUUBLLLLLE TAAAAAANKSSSSSS! WOOOOO! BUUUUUUUUUUUBBBBBLLLLLLLLLEEESSSSSSSS!!!
A: You forgot to take your medication. Please take 2 pills. If it’s an hour or more past the prescribed time, take only 1 pill.
a couple of questions
1.will you be able to get unlimited bp and gp like on BTTD or not?
2.will you make a BT3?
3.will there be any new wepons?
one weapon suggestion
whip: made of bullets and swings when you move
(no reload time)
“BP is used to help keep the complexity down on the tanks, otherwise we’re sure some tanks would get out of hand and crash people’s computers.”
So no, there probably won’t be unlimited BP and GP.
Nahh, Steph cant be a robot…Who would name a robot Stephanie? But Jared is her husband who we mysteriously never hear from. Who is important, mysterious and cool? Unless…Jared is Batman…which means that Steph Must Be Maggie Gyllenhaal!!!
Wait?? If Steph is Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jared is batman.. then were does this so called robin guy fit in? And if they are “husband and wife” then does that mean “Maggie Gyllenhaal” is cheating on “Batman” with Robin but you think we’d of heard of him by now Unless Steph is not cheating on Batman and is an extraterrestrial who plans to make an awesome bubble tanks game that will make us zombies that cant stop playing it until we become vegetables and then wont be able to move so we wont be able to fight off the evil planet invasion.
P.S. Cant wait =D
My earlier question was, if u buy something, can u sell it back to the shop and if so, will it be for the same value that you bought it for?. also I had NO clue that steph and jared were married.
Yes, they never did mention a “sale” feature. Maybe it’s that “undo” button they were talking about earlier.
Well obviously Steph is robo-”Maggie Gyllenhaal” and “Batman” programmed her not to cheat on him.
splitter bubbles….they hit the enemy and split into two.and so on until unable to split again.
bouncing bubbles- these bullets will bounce of the wall a few times to try to hit the enemy.
clone- creates a small version of your self that has drasticly low health and damage.
syphen-a bubble shoots out and steals 5% of that bubbles health
helium bubbles- these bubbbles will hit the enemy and slow the down and eventually remove them from the arena
growing bubbles- these bubble will have massive damage at close range and will continously grow until it hits an enemy.the damage degrades as the bubble grows.
sadistic bubbles-takes halve your health and multiplys it by 3 and is then placed upon the arena as a mine.
affection bubbles- makes the enemy fight for you for a few seconds.
deevolution bubbles-turns a big enemy into many smaller enemys.
I got more questions:
Q1. Can our tanks be bigger then the boss (the ultimate adversary)?
Q2. Must i remember the tank number? Can i just sort of upload it from a folder in BTA?
Q3. Can we have bubbles that have different colors, like purple for poison and red for high damage?
when will the game be ready ?
[…] Bubble Tanks Arenas Update #2 seemed to be successful, I thought I’d hold up my promise to do a follow-up post with more […]
Ok Steph.If you know the release date,then tell us if you know.
Please kindly tell us the release/launch date if you ever know. Thanks
*****weapon ideas***** 1#a yo-yo like weapon after its stretched to a certain length it comes back 2#electric yo-yo same as number 1 but shocks enemy tanks within a certain area ALSO see the electric mine 3#black hole(bomb,missile,suicide-bot etc)it implodes sucking enemy tank tanks in then explodes damaging tank (or stuning the ones it didn’t kill?) 4#some uber wep like nuke,mini-nuke,virus (mini) nuke,LAZAAR(laser,misspelled for dramatic effect:) 5#piercing laser just what it sound like 6#shotgun fires (various types of?) bullets in a spread pattern also there could be different types of shotguns like a piercing shotgun or stuning shotgun(fires stuning bullets) random shotgun fires a random number of bullets,random type(s?) of bullets,random pattern etc 7# spiral bullets,they spirals out from you (as they spiral out from you they move faster and faster 8#drone cannon,it hovers around you and shoots (there could also be different types of cannon drone like a spiral drone(s?) basically like a spiral bullet only it shoots 9#shield drone(s?)a drone(s) that shield you from damage (A for a certain amount of time or B till it absorbs a certain amount of damage 10#healing drone,it does what it sounds like it could A heal a certain amount of damage or B till it gets hit OR C it acts as a shield drone and heals you 11secoenddary weapon hot keys so you can have alot of 2nd weps PS try to use some of the peoples ideas for BTA or BT3 PSS I like the art work for StormWinds
WOW I can create my tank?!!!!! on bta cool!!
(remenber brazil* or brasil** national** iternational* )
can we morph are weapons and tanks and can we breed them and can we make our own weapons?
Why are all the tanks red in the screenshots? Will everything be red in this game instead of blue and orange?
…Where have you been…
OMG! its going to be AWSOME.I love already bttd and bt and bt2,They are so awsome.And i have crazy ideas on some tanks.OMG I cant wait. It’s going to be a game who everyone gonna know it’s name. Question 1.musent be exakidly sure at this question but when do you think bta comes out?
how about a bubble tanks game with 2 or more players eh?
HI currently does not know how to make a multi-player game. “But maybe when they get the time, money, and knowledge, they’ll think about it.”
“Q: Is BTA going to be free to play?
A: Yes. There are no paid-for expansions. All the content will be free.
Q: Will BTA have Extra Content?
A: Yes. Enemy and Arena creation are likely to be part of the Extra Content version. Please note: The money we receive from EC versions of our games is what is making BTA possible!”
A bit of a contradiction there.
@Austin - We’ve already explained this. Everything will be free.
With “the game will recommend tanks that are perfect for you”, do you mean that there will be a personality quiz or something like that, and the results are tanks?
when came out it
Austin, they don’t condradict. You won’t have to PAY for the extra content, you just have to go to armorgames. And the money they make is not earned from you, it’s from the extra content because armorgames pays them money for advertising.
@unknow it already came out…it came out the 1st of June! (if you are talking about BTA)
You know, BTA dissapointed me a little. No offense but I thought it would be better. Maybe more levels or something. One thing I hate is games you finish and never play agian.
PS I started the day it came out and finished a week later.
PSS I hope BT3 will be not a GYFANPA.
PSSS GYFANPA stands for game you finish and never play again.
PSSSS Looking forward to BT3!
PSSSSS I don’t want to put my hopes up for a terrible game. Im counting on you HI.
PSSSSSS If you don’t make BT3 good I’ll run out of good games.
PSSSSSSS If your looking at this, Hi.
DONT A. Q. #4!!!!!!!!!!
bta is abit easier and harder for me…………………. but oh well its great!
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can I please have the most powerful avatar bubble
go play