| Ace Of Spades | Ben Aksoy / Jagex Ltd. | 2012 | |
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This game is a multiplayer first person shooter combined with sandbox elements and uses the free open source engine of Minecraft. Choose between a Blue and Green Team and battle it out in CTF type gameplay in rivers and on mountains in a cuboid world where you can create shelters, tunnels, and bases with the ultimate goal of eliminating the enemies and capturing their intel. You play on a team with other people, on a map filled with mountains and canyons. Your aim is to capture a briefcase full of intelligence documents and take it back to your base. That's where the fun starts. As the terrain is entirely destructible (and constructable), you can create bunkers, Viet Cong-style tunnels and clear out moats and killing fields in front of your fortifications. Of course, using those aforementioned grenades, your enemies can easily blow holes in your fortifications, too. The challenge is to balance the creation of fortifications and assaulting the enemy base. Teams of up to 16 players are supported, and server software is freely available if you want to give hosting a server a go yourself. While the beta version from 2011 was free, Jagex (the creator of Runescape) created a revised version along with the original developer for commercial release. Shortly following the release, it was updated with free downloadable content (DLC) containing four new maps, a new weapon and the reintroduction of the capture the flag game mode. On 24 January 2013, Jagex released, alongside other new content, the "Classic Mode" that aimed to play similarly to the 2011 prototype of the game. On 2 October 2013, the game received a native map editor which could be used to produce maps shared through the Steam Workshop. Alongside this update, the previously paid St. Valentine's Day Massacre DLC was made available for free. Following, the game was updated with a custom, 24-player mode wherein players could build maps within a limited time. To reflect the new mode, the game was rebranded as Ace of Spades: Battle Builder. A second paid DLC package, Hurt + Heal, was released on 8 December 2015 and introduced two new character classes, as well as one new weapon for each of the four previous classes. The game was shut down in March 2019 but the original free version of the game was made available and re-titled Build & Shoot. A free open source was later released as OpenSpades, a compatible client of Ace of Spades 0.75 that can connect to a vanilla/pyspades/pysnip server and uses OpenGL/AL for better experience.
See also: St. Valentine's Day Massacre Pack |
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