Turf War: Taipei · 角頭械鬥

Turf War: Taipei (角頭械鬥) is a free multiplayer shooter that runs in your browser, with nothing to install and no account. SWAT and Militia fight round-based team matches in the streets of Taipei: one life a round, cash, a store, weapon attachments and bomb sites. Its rules are an homage to BeGone, nPlay's browser shooter.

At a glance

Genre

Round-based team first-person shooter (FPS)

Platform

Web browser, desktop and phone. Free, no install, no account, no ads

Modes

Elimination, Sabotage

Rooms

Solo vs bots, practice range, online 1v1, 6v6 and 24v24 (bots fill empty slots)

Maps

13, including Ximending, Taipei 101, Memorial Hall and Sanchong

Languages

English, 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese)

Servers

The default game server is in Taiwan (Taipei); the server decides damage, cash, purchases, rounds and the bomb

Licence

Open source (MIT code)

How to play

1. Open the game at turfwar.ianhsiao.me, pick a callsign and a side (SWAT, Militia or automatic).
2. Choose a way in. Quick play joins the fullest open public room, or opens a 6v6 with bots. Create room sets the mode, size, map and public or private (a 4-letter code). Join room lists every live room with its ping. Solo vs bots needs no connection, and the Practice range has a free store.
3. Buy weapons. Each round starts with a 4 s freeze, and for the first 20 s you can buy guns with B inside your own base, and anywhere once the round is over (attachments, grenades, smoke, molotovs and bubble tea any time). A new match starts with $1,000, an MP5 and an M9A1.
4. Win rounds. You have one life per round and respawn at the next one (while dead you watch your killer). The first team to 10 round wins takes the match (6 in public online rooms, so a match fits in one sitting).
5. Earn cash and upgrade. Kills, headshots, assists, arming or disarming the bomb and winning rounds pay out; weapons and attachments last the whole match.

Game modes

Elimination

120-second rounds. Kill the whole other team to win the round. If time runs out with both teams alive the round is a draw: it is replayed and nobody scores.

Sabotage

Militia attacks and SWAT defends. Militia holds E for 5 seconds at site A or B to arm the bomb (no moving or shooting while arming); the clock drops to 40 seconds and the other site goes inert. From then on SWAT can only win by disarming the bomb (E for 5 seconds), and if the bomb goes off Militia win. Before the bomb is armed, all SWAT dead means a Militia win, and all Militia dead or time out means a SWAT win; there are no draws. Rounds are 90 seconds (120 on single-site maps).

Room sizes and online play

• 1v1 (duel), 6v6 and 24v24. 24v24 plays on the big maps only (Meridian District and Taipei 101 · Xinyi).
• Bots fill every slot a human does not; private rooms can turn them off.
• Private rooms are joined with a 4-letter code. After a match you can send a 1v1 challenge link: a friend who opens it is one tap from the room, or plays a Solo 1v1 against a bot carrying your name.
• A dropped connection reconnects and rejoins the same room.

Play with classmates

Looking for browser based games to play with friends in class or the computer lab? Turf War: Taipei is a free shooter game in the browser, with nothing to install and no account. Like .io games, you open the address, turfwar.ianhsiao.me, and play, on a school computer, a laptop or a phone.

• The whole class in one room: one student starts a private room and reads out its 4-letter code. A 6v6 room holds 12 players; a 24v24 room holds 48 (big maps: Meridian District, Taipei 101 · Xinyi).
• Not enough players? Bots fill the empty slots, or turn them off in a private room and play only each other.
• 1v1 a classmate: after a match, send a 1v1 challenge link.
• Older school computers: set Graphics to Low in Settings (no bloom, 1k shadows).
• Phones work too, with touch controls; hold the phone sideways.

Maps

Thirteen maps are offered today (Sabotage needs a map with bomb sites; Warehouse is Elimination only):

• Taipei: Ximending (西門町; bomb sites at Cinema Street and the Red House square), Taipei 101 · Xinyi (the Xinyi district, a big map), Taipei 101 · 88F (an office floor near the top of the tower, with its tuned mass damper), Memorial Hall (中正紀念堂) and Sanchong (三重, the old blocks of New Taipei).
• Original battlefields: Ochre Quarter, Citadel Keep, Railyard, Skyline Rooftops and Meridian District (a big map).
• In the spirit of BeGone's maps: Warehouse, Pipeline and Timbertown.

Weapons, attachments and the store

Primaries: MP5 (default), M4A1, M1014 shotgun, M110 marksman rifle and M249 machine gun. Secondaries: M9A1 (default) and MP7. Melee: the knife, shown by default as a blue-and-white slipper (藍白拖), or as a broom (掃把) if you pick that skin. Throwables: M67 grenade, M18 smoke and the 燃燒彈 molotov, which sets the floor alight. Also a 珍奶 bubble tea that heals 50 health. Attachments include reflex, holographic, ACOG and zoom optics, a suppressor, laser, flashlight, extended clip, recoil pad, and explosive or incendiary ammo.

Some maps have drivable cars, taxis, scooters and a helicopter (E to get in or out).

Controls (defaults, rebindable in Settings)

On phones and tablets a floating stick sits on the left and the rest of the screen looks around, with fire (hold to aim), hip fire (never aims), aim, jump, crouch, reload and use buttons you can rearrange; touch aim assist and aim-while-firing are on by default.

FAQ

Can I play it on a phone?

Yes. Phones and tablets get on-screen touch controls (a floating stick, a look pad and buttons, with an editable layout) and the game can be installed as a web app. Hold the phone sideways. In-app browsers such as Threads and Instagram never rotate to landscape, so the game turns the page 90 degrees for you to turn the phone; on Android you can open it in Chrome instead.

Can I play alone, or with friends?

Yes to both. Solo vs bots needs no connection and the practice range lets you try every weapon for free. To play with friends, start a private room and share its 4-letter code; after a match you can also send a 1v1 challenge link.

Can my class play it together in the computer lab?

Yes. Turf War: Taipei is a browser based game with nothing to download and no account: open turfwar.ianhsiao.me on the school computers. One student starts a private room and shares its 4-letter code: a 6v6 room holds 12 players, a 24v24 room 48. On slower computers, set Graphics to Low in Settings.

How is it related to BeGone?

Turf War: Taipei is an homage to BeGone, nPlay's browser shooter: it follows its rules and its weapon and attachment numbers. Every model, texture and sound is original or CC0 / OFL licensed; no BeGone assets are used.

Is Turf War: Taipei open source?

Yes. The code is MIT-licensed on GitHub (github.com/madeyexz/turfwar) and third-party assets keep their own licences (CC0, SIL OFL). The names 角頭械鬥 and Turf War: Taipei and the logo are not licensed for reuse; forks are welcome under a different name.

Which languages does it support?

English and Traditional Chinese (繁體中文), switchable at any time in the settings. It follows your browser's language by default, and ?lang=en or ?lang=zh-TW in the address picks one for a visit.

Licence and credits

Made by Ian Hsiao.

Source code: github.com/madeyexz/turfwar (MIT). The game's names and logo are not licensed for reuse. Characters, animations, weapon models, textures and gunshots come from Quaternius, Poly Haven and The Free Firearm Sound Library (all CC0); fonts are Rajdhani, Oswald and Noto Sans TC (SIL OFL). The Taipei maps' layouts are this project's own. The full list is in the README on GitHub. The rules are an homage to nPlay's BeGone.

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