Got my engine of choice up and running and finished some basic intro / title screen stuff. I really only have one day and the change on Friday, I’ll be gone nearly all of Saturday unfortunately. In any case, I hope to finish this game, but it’s certainly not going to end up being what I originally had in mind for it… Just gonna end up like a zombie basher most likely. Oh well, hope it’ll be fun anyway!
Took a while to get to this point. I initially thought nearly my entire Saturday would be gone, but I was wrong! In any case, I’m sticking with my dumbed-down game concept and hope to just polish it lots. It’s going to be a simple endless arena shooter. Name undecided, more spell ideas in the future but this flamethrower type thing is the only one I’ve got implemented. Also the enemies don’t randomly spawn yet, and there’s only 1 enemy :(. You get more spells by uh, killing those poor damsels. Hopefully I’ll be able to make them avoid the player in the future (hoping I have time).
Haven’t decided how I want the player’s HP bar drawn yet… do I want it over him like with the enemies, or do I want it at the top/bottom of the screen for easy reading? I think I’m gonna do that.
I give you lightning! It bounces around randomly on enemies of the same type. Also the first 4 spells are implemented, one more to go + more enemies + enemy spawner and I can call it done… of course I would like to do more though. (sfx, music)
Obligatory workspace photo.
Anyway, an idea for this theme hit me right away. It’s going to be an RTS where you take over other “planets” to win. I’m hoping to incorporate multiple levels into this… The idea was more or less stolen, but I can’t remember the games that did this aside from maybe Eufloria.
Hoping to do more journals and a timelapse, but we’ll see if time allows. This is going to be a complex game…
Anyway, as I mentioned before the basic premise of this game will be an RTS about taking over the other planet things.
Currently working:
Kind of behind where I wanted to be because I spent way too long trying to get a 2 bugs sorted out… BLEH. Anyway, assuming I can get the AI working (so, actual gameplay) and some more units drawn I could probably pump out a lot of levels fairly quickly! Might have to do a level select screen w/ saving, probably going to make a quick tutorial in-game. I’d also like to make more planets (purely cosmetic) along with putting stuff on the planets… but that’s near polish on my priority queue.
There are still a lot of hours before I go to bed for the day, but I thought I’d put up another progress shot of my game Tiny Domination. Here I’ve added the basis for a money system. When you select a planet you have control over, it brings up the build menu. This “hospital” as I nicknamed it costs $150 and heals the planet for an additional 1 health point per 2 seconds.
Around the planets I added a glow so you can see what you own, what’s an enemy, and what’s neutral, but only player-controlled planets are shown here. I also added the ability to have units travel between planets. If a unit arrives on a neutral or enemy planet, it will attack it. Once the HP bar (as shown in the middle of the planet when hovered over or selected) reaches 0, you gain control of it.
Also, clouds and trees for kicks. I think I might only make one unit type, maybe two at the most… time’s running out fast. Oh, and I drew my own font. Not sure that was a wise use of my time, but RAWR.
Tiny Domination Progress 3
This is going to be my last update before I release the game!
What’s new:
The game right now is playable but it can get boring and is too easy because the AI does not take the offensive… so when the player controls more planets, the AI can just be insta-gibbed. I want to add another gameplay element to make the game less boring, but I don’t know that I’ll have time. Also todo is music/sfx, a tutorial, and more polish over all.