This multiplayer test game is about growing turnips of different colors. Upon login, you can select one out of 6 colors for your avatar (the “faction color”) and type in a name. There is no persistent login accounting, so choose whatever you want. Then, your task is to farm turnips for your faction. This would not work without the help of other factions, so you’d better help them, too!
The game plane consists of several fields, where one can grow turnips. Each such field is surrounded by a fence, and only turnips of one color can grow there. In the middle of each turnip field, you can see the “field post”. By clicking on the post, new turnips can be seeded. They need to grow before harvesting, though!
To grow your turnips, some turnip juice of another color than your own is needed. As you can only handle turnips (and juice) of your very own color, you rely on the help of other factions (colored players, that is). They need to click on the “feeder” on your field, and spend some of their juice. As you should do at their growing fields!
Click on a fully grown turnip (one that has your color) to harvest. Then walk over to the “Juice-o-mat” in the center of the game plane and process it to juice. You can see the current game’s stock at the lower right-hand screen. Don’t forget to seed new turnips by clicking on the “field post”. Only turnips that have been seeded before will grow when juice is spent!
Technical
The game has been written with DXStudio (both, client and server application). Microsoft Windows only. The server application was running on a Windows 2003 vServer, rented at United Hoster. Actually, it was the smallest one available there (1000 CPU units, 320MB RAM), so things might get choppy when many users should be online.
Please note that the game server is not online anymore.
