If they are old enemies fighting on a new ground, you could use this theme for the title and put your splash screen direct in action, more than "battle robots" on a space background, which can be any game.

What type of gameplay would it be?

(And I just love this "My little turret" picture)

Few things don't work for me (using Chrome):

• preview post open a pop up window saying there is nothing to preview!

• new posts show me posts from my last visit... but consider my arrival as my last visit, so there is no new posts...

• Making text in bold does not work when i select the text to bold it, it either put the {b} things at the end of the text, or pop up a window to ask me to retype the text i want to bold, to put it at the end anyway > preview post

• quotes of previous posts are slightly bigger than the forum column and add a slider bar for nothing

• i cannot search my previous posts (which makes it hard to follow a conversation)

Little things, but annoying ones...

It's a very good book, but very theoretical, if you need something more "on hands", you may consider "Level up" besides.

<img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51y-7cTaYcL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" border="0">

http://www.amazon.com/Level-Up-Guide-Great-Design/dp/047068867X

That rocks! And competing with a game in a video comp is a feat by itself! Any plan for using your things in a game later on?

And if you get videos of your workshop, I'll be interested to see how you do that.

Anyway, good luck for the competition, that's some great job you got here!

I'll moan some more: this bright bluish green is glaring and is not related to the other colours in any way!

Oh, and I liked having the latest posts of the forum on the main page, I miss that function.

Same here, I got kicked out the forum few times as well. And when I got back , I got this on all tabs i opened (using google chrome and windows7):

Server Error in '/' Application.

A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (&).

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (&).

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[HttpException (0x80004005): A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (&).]

   System.Web.HttpRequest.ValidateInputIfRequiredByConfig() +11406907

   System.Web.PipelineStepManager.ValidateHelper(HttpContext context) +184

I agree on the font size, I have to zoom out the forum to get a proper size, and zoom in back on all others...

The light green background is a bit too bluish for the theme. You may change the colour of the stripes to make them more yellowish and fit the other shades of green. Also, it is very bright and makes the overall forum very glaring on my screen.

(and I don't like that everybody sees I always edit my message after I post them)

Gravatars take 5 to 10 min to be updated, the only way to check if it worked is to wait.

The thing where you host your files have more than 3 different download buttons... I'm not sure i'm willing to trial and error here. Any clue or better hosting?

Else the screen shot looks pretty nice!

That is sooo Golden Axe, and for 4 players!

I want it!

That sucks... these attacks would make a perfect excuse to lock the internet, for "security reasons".

(on an unrelated note, thepiratebay and megaupload have just been censored two days ago in Malaysia, and now hackers are taking down all government related websites..not sure how this thing will end)

When you say private variables, I guess you mean for number of hits and things like that... can it be used for colours or appearance?

I am trying to create elements that can be reused, like a column from one town to another, by changing its colour only. Going for a second frame of animation works, but i am not sure if I am actually saving anything compared to create another object.