4 player? 2 vs 2 or?
Once you got splitscreen, I want networking!

My highscore is 796K on the post-SH version you linked here. (see attached screenshot)

By the end of the game I had become a superhuman soldier with 1700 health. I noticed that as the game progresses, the enemies start out with better weapons, like grenades, flamethrower, etc. But in the end, they seemed to be starting with that mortar weapon, and instead of launching it at me, they blew themselves up. It was pretty funny to see an enemy base put out waves of guys who kept blowing themselves up. But not only that, their explosions didn't hurt me.

When I realized that, I became concerned that I wouldn't be able to get a game over, as their explosions (grenades and mortars both) didn't hurt my teammates either, who marched on to claim flags abandoned by the suicidal opposition. I finally just kept running far to the right past enemy lines and got the timer to run out.

It took me a while to accomplish that, though. It's a fun game and I played for quite a while. I think my second-highest score was around 40k, with several attempts ending at less than 10k.

I have a couple suggestions for the game. The extra-health things seem to unbalance it in the player's favor once you get past a lengthy initial hump of difficulty. Maybe they could be replaced with special health boxes that temporarily set you to 700hp?

Also, it got a bit confusing having my weapon switched when I was storming around with the flamethrower. I vote against auto-equip on pickup. The weapon-switch key is a bit hard to reach, too. I like to hover my fingers over the keys useful to the game, and the stretch from Tab to Ctrl to Space was a slight strain.

Great polish, great fun, great game.

try spybot S&D / antivirus stuff

thanks

Netplay for this type of game is overrated and difficult to program. Horizontal split-screen is the way to go.
keyboard1, keyboard2, mouse, gamepad1, gamepad2, gamepad3, gamepad4

I guess the "active" game area would encompass only where the players are plus 1 or 2 bases over. In timed multiplayer, players could use the flag on their side as a spawn point. (not next to the next enemy flag, but one back)

look-ahead camera: A fixed camera would be better because you can see what the enemy is doing while retreating. (unless you added overhead flying vehicles). For the 4-player narrow split-screen, you could add/subtract the player-relative crosshair position to the "Y" camera position.

I don't know if i should love or hate your game.

I love it because it is just great (as already mentioned).:)
I hate it because it keeps me from working on my project.:(

(Looks like there's more 'Dichotomy' to your game than it becomes obvious.;))

Well, now that's a though question
I don't know, I just knew I wanted to make a sidescrolling game with hilly terrain and fast action. Then I decided on two armies fighting, and the rest I mostly decided as I went. It's nothing revolutionary, really.

Control scheme was just the best I could do with the four buttons. I had to scrap the jump button because of the limitations, and make weapon switching a bit weird, but it still worked out nicely in my opinion.

Bunker Master doesn't run in my computer! It crashes immediately when runned.

I tried to recompile it (with MinGW) to make it work, but i couldn't because it conflicts the BITMAP struct between windows and allegro.

I'm using 24 bit color resolution, 1024x768, windows xp. I tried in 16 bits but it failed too. My CRT monitor has just 16 and 24 bits (it doesn't support 8 bits). 800x600 didn't work too.

FIX THAT!

yeah, lag sux, but splitscreen would be great

how about 8-20 seconds after a red flag gets captured, you get a red bombing run to help balance things out. (& vice-versa)

I REALLY like the parachute troopers idea.
A hang-glider / parachuter ballista would look neat, but I think utterly useless.

I don't know if Aircraft and AA guns would really add to the game.
Regardless, I should be able to aim up to 89 degrees with my crosshairs.

tanks(armor) & jeeps(speed) could be balanced out by infantry mine weapons. The infantry weapons are powerful enough, so you wouldn't have to add power to mounted weapons.

As for how far you can aim upwards, in RL I can point a gun straight up, why is there a limit in the game? It seems kind of silly.

Where exactly can you find the latest version? I have to be embarassed to admit I don't have Allegro or a good compilation environment installed right now so I can't build from the source, so a binary version is needed.

I can't find it from the Cellosoft site.

Oh I am really dumb. I downloaded the 1_02 and saw the source but didn't see the binary, so I thought it was source only.

EDIT: yeah I also beat Bunker Master too, tonight. After about 300k points I didn't even see my team anymore (not that I used them that much, ever). I never let go of the right key and I just chucked grenades constantly. At around 600 to 700k points they started getting mortars and blowing themselves up. At around 1 million points they pretty much all had the mortars so I didn't have to do anything at all.

Attached: This is what the end of the game looks like. I sat at the entrance just to see if they could hurt me -- they did 1 damage to me in something like 5 spawns worth of guys.