December, 1940. Italy threatens to capture the Suez Canal, but Britain readies a counteroffensive, code-named Operation Compass. Can you outfox the Italians, who have greater numbers, with the elite tanks in your 7th Armoured Division? Can you capture Tobruk before the inevitable Axis counter-attack?
This is my first published computer game! You can download it from itch.io here: Tobruk . The site asks whether you want to donate a couple bucks to the developer (me), but please feel free to ignore the donation and just proceed to the download. The game requires Windows. It comes in a .zip package; just unzip and run the executable to play.
I did a terrible job of giving instructions. To play: (1) left click a brown (British) unit. (2) left click again to give it a destination.(It won’t move until the execution phase.) (3) Repeat for some/all of your other units. (4) Hit enter and wait. (5) Hit spacebar to walk through each of your moves, hex by hex.
The game is my entry for the “Tropical Game Jam” at the Gamemaker Studio forums in this thread . The rules of the jam required that the game be made in just 3 days! It was all very rushed, and I didn’t finish until 4:30 a.m. last night. So don’t expect a magnum opus. Also, I finished on time, but I supplied a broken link because I didn’t realize itch.io sets links to private by default. Fortunately, the jam organizers are still accepting my entry.
I don’t expect to win, but I’m proud of my little game! Here’s a cropped screenshot.
