

You can even design your own custom prefabs.

One neat feature in the map editor is that you can generate random terrain like a river, a desert, or frozen tundra. You’ll often find matches based on custom maps rather than those created by the developers. Guncraft also emphasizes player-made maps. You can use specialized abilities and items, like lighting bricks on fire or placing gun turrets, but you can only put down a small number of them. You can also join or create specific “build rooms” so others can come in and help you build a new map. Level building is fairly straightforward: You plop down into a barren landscape and choose different brick types from a menu. However, nearly five months after its launch on Steam, Ace of Spades still doesn’t have the tools to let players create their own maps.īrick-Force has an elegant setup for community-made maps – Infernum highlights a new one every week on its website, and the most popular maps are in regular rotation on the servers. The Miner can get through more blocks - his spade can take out whole walls at a time - than the others, who can only dismantle one or two blocks per hit.īesides building with individual blocks, you can use premade structures called prefabs to improve your defenses or to lay down a new path, such as small platforms, towers, and staircases. Though each one comes with their own arsenal, all of them can build and destroy levels using guns and melee weapons like spades and pickaxes (the only mode you can’t build anything in is in “classic” capture-the-flag matches). CraftingĪce of Spades uses a class-based system: The choices are the Miner, Commando, Marksman, or Rocketeer. Zombies can tear through blocks with terrifying speed.
