By Kieron Gillen on June 17th, 2010 at 8:00 pm.
It’s the social web game du jour! It’s hilariously goofy. Basically, Dot War allows you to take 2 twitter account icons and wage a war against one another, by a process that transforms the icons into incy soldiers. It’s a little like Gratuitous Space Battles in that it’s the layout of colours in your icon that determines which mix of the various soldier types you get – so your chances of winning against any given opponent. It’s especially so in the easy mode where the troops go and fight automatically. There’s more skill in the mode where you get to give orders and so are able to squeeze a win. The aim is – basically – to do more damage to the opponents crystals than they do to yours. You don’t even need a twitter icon to be yours to fight – just enter in any names. You can see it in action below, and to start you off, you pick fights with RPS, Alec, Jim, John, Quinns and Me.
They need to make a Facebook version. :)
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Took some time, but I beat single player.
Fun game, even if my initial icon was a little dummy heavy.
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Great, I’ve always wanted to wage a war using my wife’s eyeball.
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When I was working on Goo!, one of the “skins” we were going to try was a crowd of people.
Ahh well… :(
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Forget about the game you can make some pretty good mosaic art from this. Cool!
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Interestingly enough, I beat all of you guys individually, but got my ass kicked by RPS. I didn’t know you guys went for the whole musketeer bit.
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I have picked a fight against kierongillen with my account and I have win.. Weeeeeeeeee!.
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It refused to load my twitter picture.
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it doesn’t like capitalization…try to do it without it.
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Green is overpowered, grey is okay.
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My twitter icon is almost entirely green and it loses every time. The pink bits do a good job, though.
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Green is quite good as an all rounder, and makes the bulk of a good army, but some blues and reds seem to be pretty helpful.
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This is pretty definitive proof that @god_damn_batman can bring the pain to @thelordyourgod. So at least we’ve got that argument out of the way.
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Dave Tosser just won’t die.
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Lies…I beat him!
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Nothing can defeat Dave Tosser!
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jonfitt does. Just.
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Default twitter pic easily owns him
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I am unbeatable! Give it a shot – twitter.com/digitalgunfire
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I just beat you. twitter.com/awiamartindale
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You win. It was close for a while though.
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22 seconds. Ha!
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My kitten thrashed John’s traffic cone monster, so this game is good.
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RPS crushed Alec.
Jim rules over John.
Quinns beats Kieron with just 2 damage done, both go through.
RPS vs Kieron = RPS by 22 crystals damage.
Jim vs Quinns = Quinns by 51 crystal damage.
FINALS
RPS vs Quinns = RPS by K.O!
Jim vs Kieron = Jim by 55 crystal damage.
Clearly RPS is greater than the sum of its parts. Hurray!
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I’ve been trying RPS. It’s killed everything so far including several randoms.
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Update: tradingmum destroyed RPS — which is surprising when you see the icon.
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I find that a a solid block of red with about 3 or 4 lines of pink at the back can mop up almost anything. The red just steamrolls through everything and goes straight to the crystals and the pink are massively effective at keeping everything away from your own.
It does feel like cheating though. But nice to try for a while. I shall try my actual avatar against RPS and when I lose horribly I shall avenge myself with the red blob.
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Took down John and Alec, but got mauled by everyone else, ESPECIALLY Dave Tosser. Ouch.
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Dave is hardcore.
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Gonnas has yet to lose to anyone.
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Um? I played through the single player game as Kieron (I don’t have a twitter account), and when I got to the end it gave me…Jim. As the final boss. Am I supposed to be reading into this?
Oh, and protip: Don’t play as Kieron.
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Beat everything! Here’s the image that I used http://ahb.me/5iy
Have fun with it :D
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I’m proud to say that I soundly defeated David Lynch. It was his tall grey hair that lost it for him.
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Ohwee… my twit-pic sucks. Seems like all the enigmatic white makes not for a good army, after all. Got pwned brutally by about everybody, from the RPS-crew up to Leigh Alexander. Should get a bit more colour in my life, I guess…
Still. Good stupid, mindless fun.
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Try beating @tradingmum.
You can’t.
Because it’s impossible.
(Note: May not actually be impossible)
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Geeze. You were not kidding. Nightmare.
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the default twitter pic beats that (but only just)
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Is DotWar_is_128 one of you? :) (Still working on this guy!)
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The RPS crew are too damned gothic. Army of black pixels stands still and eats everything you throw at it.
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