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Wyatt_Derp
Arcane
1. Manly man-bro lead characters
2. Big ass cruisers and battleships
3. Possibly deck building. Save you on budget and adds replay... even if it sprinkles on some RN-Jesus
4. No women except as trade commodities
5. Scorched Earth abilities (just in case)
6. Space commies for enemy faction
7. Make water planets the thing everyone fights over. 'Cause when we actually go to conquerin' space, water will be gold. It's heavy, rare, and we need a lot of it.
8. Fun weapon lab options. If you're going sci-fi, use knowledge and science for fun and learning interesting new ways to blow shit up.
9. Don't mix aliens and humans. We've learned this lesson too often in games. Human and alien DNA should never co-mingle.
10. Tesla Coils.
2. Big ass cruisers and battleships
3. Possibly deck building. Save you on budget and adds replay... even if it sprinkles on some RN-Jesus
4. No women except as trade commodities
5. Scorched Earth abilities (just in case)
6. Space commies for enemy faction
7. Make water planets the thing everyone fights over. 'Cause when we actually go to conquerin' space, water will be gold. It's heavy, rare, and we need a lot of it.
8. Fun weapon lab options. If you're going sci-fi, use knowledge and science for fun and learning interesting new ways to blow shit up.
9. Don't mix aliens and humans. We've learned this lesson too often in games. Human and alien DNA should never co-mingle.
10. Tesla Coils.
Wyatt_Derp
Arcane
Cards. Cards for units, leaders, events etc. Just an idea. It could be a cheaper way to craft a strategy game without using 3D modeling. Or do 3D anyway and just make the cards look really shiny.
DraQ
Arcane
Actual Sci-Fi.
Hard Sci-Fi space game with less advanced tech level than usual (meaning a lot of intrasystem action with orbital mechanics being a thing, single or handful of solar systems only).
Space opera 4x games with vast interstellar empires are dime a dozen.
I am definitely planning 3D graphics.
adrix89
Cipher
Add Homeworld Space Battles.
Add in whatever 4X features to make it replayable and have an excuse to play endless amounts of Homeworld Space Battles.
Done.
Homeworld battles are real-time, I am planning turn based combat on a hexagonal grid.
DraQ
Arcane
In 3D.
Sure, Heroes 5 has a grid based combat in 3D.
DraQ
Arcane
In space.
Sure, it's a top down view, does not matter if units or located on the ground or on the same plane in space. Think of a space platform tileset in Starcraft - units are theoretically in space but they are still projected to a 2D plane.
just make sure you do it right!
I'd play it. MoO2 was great as was Alpha Centauri. Also a fan of the Endless games and a huge fan of AI War. With that in mind, I'd really like to see an advanced AI. A lot of times in 4X games, mostly because I have no friends, I get bored because of the AI being shit.
luj1
You're all shills
Something that separates it from the rest of its ilk
DraQ
Arcane
He's not doing it right.
If he's planning 3D graphics, it's only wrong because he won't be able to manage it. I'd be curious how many people are on his team. Because if it's a solo project, we'll see this magnificent 3D 4X game in a decade or so.
DraQ
Arcane
Well, so far his idea seems to be "I will make a vastly inferior Stellaris/MoO/whatever clone (assuming I actually make anything before quitting)".
Seeking to achieve anything noteworthy with this sort of plan is like trying to take on a spetsnaz platoon as a lone, completely amateur couch potato armed with (non-working) pipe rifle and wearing a clown suit.
Complete with oversized squeaky shoes.
Seeking to achieve anything noteworthy with this sort of plan is like trying to take on a spetsnaz platoon as a lone, completely amateur couch potato armed with (non-working) pipe rifle and wearing a clown suit.
Complete with oversized squeaky shoes.
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DraQ, you are living up to your past posts as a brutal comedian, but seriously... give the dude a shot. I'm curious what language he's using and what engine. In fact, I would help him if I'm familiar with the coding language. I can also write fiction and do some graphic design. If he's truly just winging it because he got high and thought "bro Imma make a game!" then lol
As I mentioned, I am still entertaining the idea and will need to think this through over the weekend. If I decide to give it a go and do some prototyping, it will be implemented in C++ with open source components (e.g. BGFX for rendering, Flatbuffers for serialization, ZeroMQ for connectivity). Game logic would probably be implemented in a scripting language to allow a high degree of modability (game logic + UI code could be open-sourced, C++ engine would remain proprietary).
I would rather assemble an engine from various open source components than use a complete off the shelf engine due to pricing (most engines offer free plans, but you need to pay a lot to gain access to all features and source code), flexibility (I have some ideas for features that are not implemented in publicly available engines), (un)suitability of engines for strategy games and a questionable quality of some of those engines (I am looking at you, Unity).
3D done right can actually be cheaper than 2D, for example you can implement nice effects with a few lines of code instead of pre-rendering hundreds of frames. Sci-fi setting does not require complex graphical assets, starships or planets can rendered as static meshes without any animations.
I have experience with 3D programming, not games though. A lot of experience with network programming in various languages, including C++.
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