The RTS Development Thread

[thade]

It's construct. Also, the sprites are not mine, but they're what I think the earth guys should be based off of.

[Olothontor]

Only a few days in and I'm already looping back on my old ideas and revamping. This is gonna be a long project.

Anyway, old or new?

[thade]

I dunno, the new seems more detailed, but I like the old color scheme better. If you're out of ideas, you could work on the top down sprites.

I'm thinking we need:
At least three factions, each with:

Mothership/Station
Resource Gatherers
Fighters
Transports
etc.

We also need asteroids, planets, and other 'terrain'.

[Olothontor]

I've got some leftover planets, starscapes, and nebulas from older projects, along with some other scraps. I'll post those tomorrow for public consumption. Hell, you might even recognize some of it.

[thade]

ossum! I've got movement down, except one ship won't move at all. Hrm.

[ForlornCreature]

The ship on the bottom right of thade's post reminds me of a space 1999 eagle. Oh yeah, for fun, an unlockable extra could be a fleet of space ships from sci-fi movies/tv series, maybe make them a little different if you intend to sell/copyright the game. Oh, and make sure it has lots of eyecandy and explosions and flak cannons and tracers and ridiculously huge laser cannons and lots and lots of bullets/lasers flashing all over the place.

[thade]

Okay, I've got turrets working, but I can't get them to be in different places and ships. not really sure how to.

[Olothontor]

Sounds like your average programming project to me. All things considered, this is great progress!

I'll get to work on the various factions in the game; fleshing those out will help me to design the ships. Mind if I split the Human and Xenos factions into two or three separate factions for more variety? Right now, the choices in my head seem kinda vanilla.

[thade]

sounds good to me. I'm gonna take a break now, because it just occured to me that I have a powerful need to eat sometime this month. After that, programming again. I think I have an idea.

[Olothontor]

Sometimes I'm glad to have a crazy programmer on my side... this would definitely be one of those times. Cheers, man, cheers.

[thade]

once again, you've given me an idea for a shirt:

"Warning: Crazy Programmer Guy"

[Olothontor]

There are plenty of shirts that convey that message. You should frequent ThinkGeek.com more often.

[thade]

Yeah, haven't been on in a while, not like I could afford anything there, anyway...

"Get out of my way or I will replace you with a very small shell script."

[Olothontor]

And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.

Anywho, I just finished some of my make up work for today (I was out due to some staggering nausea), so I'll get to work on writing up those factions in a bit.

[thade]

Huh. I usually only get staggering nausea when i'm in school. Can't wait to hear about the factions, not much progress on my side.