Renzatic on 20/12/2012 at 07:29

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There's something very ZX Spectrumish about that, Dema. Kinda cool looking. actually.

SubJeff on 20/12/2012 at 16:10

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Somehow reminds me of The Last Ninja 2.

I'm also working in Unity now. I'm trying to build a game with a very simple concept, that is sort of the opposite of Scramble and R-Type combined, but has the potential to be pretty complex. It'll be an age before I have a working prototype though. Well, one that's respectable to show anyway.

demagogue on 21/12/2012 at 07:44

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When I got the whole map to tile ~seamlessly (a big task in itself), I felt that oldschool look too (reminds me of The Great Escape) and it was almost irresistible to try to get some AI roaming on it. The map is pretty massive, the entire city of 1740 Paris & surrounding countryside at the scale of individual doors, windows & trees. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turgot_map_of_Paris).

So the game is basically a French Revolution sim.

The mousewheel will zoom in and out, since things happen at different levels of scale -- fight spawned bandits zoomed-in (or the French military/police, or the British & Austrians who invade at some point; or helping each of these. Factions evolve as the Revolution plays out -- e.g., if the revolution passes a critical threshold, the military switches sides, gangs become revolutionaries, and nobles become outlaws -- and you can always pick sides.) or visit buildings zoomed-in (opening a popup window with stats and sometimes the "inside" in the popup, you can walk around in) vs. control your urban empire zoomed-out by clicking on buildings or AI you own or control. I'd also like letting you order AI to do work for you or fight for you, if you're a military officer or bandit gangleader, or even employees or guards, so light RTS, which would be zoomed-out; but we'll see about that. Oh and when you visit buildings, I'd also like the possibility of randomized "events" happening or mini-quests possible, so a little rogue-like in exploring the city.

I want different factions you can be, merchant, noble, military, farmer, priest, or waif, etc. You have a year before the revolution to build yourself up -- whatever that means for your position & ambition: buy properties, employees & supplies, build a bandit/revolutionary gang, move up the church or military hierarchy to command lower churches or army units, etc.

The big goal of the game is getting appointed emperor for life by the revolutionary gov't (which first requires you to get elected to the gov't itself, where you have to get your district's support block by block), and once there, get support delegate by delegate to become president (as well as enact policies that help whatever cause you want, -- create communism & abolish the priesthood, or keep the king & the nobility in the new gov't ... then see what happens on the streets, to the economy, and to your popularity -- or selfishly help your own business. This part could almost be a 19th Century France sim, since they seemed to try anything at least once in that century.)

Getting elected president would get you a victory message, but you could continue to play indefinitely after that, running politics to build up & control the city. Or you could also sod all that and fight for restoration & the highest appointment by the king, or become Bishop of Paris, or rule the streets as a merchant prince or bandit king, which could be their own alt victories. Or you could try to get all the victories in the same game (I think, not sure about that). But you could also just explore the city and trigger events in apts & hidden locations, some of which I'd like to trigger storylines that have you going all over the city on little missions following a plot to a conclusion, like early GTA.

I have a lot of notes written out on my ideas, but to spell it all out would take forever, and most of it is in flux as I'm getting a handle on what's possible anyway.

demagogue on 10/1/2013 at 13:22

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If any of you like the game Axis & Allies, I made a map based on the Cold War in Asia (combines the Chinese Revolution, Korean War, & Indochina War into one map) on the TripleA engine. It could use some people playing the AI as a kind of beta-testing to balance it. If you're interested in helping out or just playing it for the fun of it, here's the (http://tripleadev.1671093.n2.nabble.com/Cold-War-Asia-1948-v0-9-td6795601.html) map download and here's where you can download the free (http://triplea.sourceforge.net/mywiki) TripleA engine. Then you just drop the .zip file in the "maps" folder to see it on the menu & play it (it's called "Cold War Asia 1948"). Plays pretty much exactly like Axis & Allies does.

http://i46.tinypic.com/15yj58h.jpg

Ulukai on 25/1/2013 at 19:24

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Have been working on procedural dungeon generation for my top-down roguelike which I first posted shots of over a year ago :p

This is just the visualisation for the mapping algorithm, it's not part of the game. Needs a few tweaks yet - i.e. door (blue square) placement, redundant corridor removal, room density etc. The corridors are at least now flowing correctly.

http://www.zen80200.zen.co.uk/d1.png

http://www.zen80200.zen.co.uk/d2.png