A.R.R.T.S. stands for Anonymous Robotic RealTtime Strategy.
I plan to work in short burst becasue of school I hardly have to the time to work with this during the week and only have about 2-4 hours of work during the week and 2 days worth during the weekend I will try and update you guys weekly and give as much info as I can such as progess in code what problems I have ect
i will also try and update a todo list and star the ones im working on and if any one wants to try somthing on the todo list let me know i put your name in credits and into the todo list
and also any pointers to code already done some were else or somthing of that sort please point me
I am going to keep this some what of a open project such as ideas and stuff
here is the design paper I wrote a while back
right now I am going to write up the docs about how everything going to gether like todo lists and how compents and scripts will be executed ect.Goals
My Personal Goal for this game is to make a fun RTS game that has a lot of puzzle logic behind it.
The game will take place in Space be fun and exciting and a real strategy thinker. Were most of your thinking will be in the building phase befor you enter the mission.
Now not every person will like this but I see a lot of programmers and people that like to turn based games liking this but even if it doesn’t make a huge success I still learn greatly from the project.
Topic
The Game it self is going to be a kind of a Pre-thought out strategy in were you build your units at the beginning and use the unit to build up and destroy the opposing force.
You can also refine your forces upgrade them during your single player mode.
Even in single player mode you can issue commands and since you’re fighting in a far way universe the commands may take a while to get there. In muilt-player mode you can use your single player army in the muiltplayer and vice versa.
Now in muilt-player mode after creating/loading an army you find a few buddys that you want to challenge and watch the fight munch away each other and see who’s a smarter builder.
In theory this sounds all fun and unlimited muilt-player replay.
Structure
The structure of the game will be interesting experice
I/O
The game I\O system will be use the Mouse and Keyboard but like normal RTS it will not have the “Tool Bar” that most RTS games have.
It will use a right click menu system to issue any orders, there will be a mini-map in the upper right corner with the resource count next to it and any messages coming from other players (in muilt-player) or in single player display any debug or echo commands
The Game will use 3d graphics it won’t be the prettiest graphics but I think 2d will be even worst besides 3d add more complexity for the player
the player will have a profile type system so that more than one person can play the game and change your ships around
Also in the profiles will hold files on stats and screen shots that can be used to make a personal web page or the sorts.
Now the armada file will use a scripting language that will be complied into a binary file that can be executed a lot faster than a string based scripting.
There for allowing for cpu for unit ai.
Game
The game structure will be a challenge to work with as it is the hardest as you might already know the game will have a script system most likly using pblua I have to get in touch with flohimself to work some of the problems out with the current version.
I also intend to allow the player to have acces to a "test map" so that he may test is units while he is still building the armada.
optionally I will put more than one resource but I think I have to see how complex it is before evaluating, that and in game research such as armor upgrades and weapons upgrades
now back to the profiles
When creating a new profile you will be ask to select a few things:
Name
Major Color
Minor Color
Symbol
After creating the profile you are ask to build your army.
Building your army will be done ALL in game with the help a step by step process.
Step 1. Select your Style for your units
Step 2. Build your Units
Step 2a. Choose a ship class
Step 2b. Place a selection of components on
Step 3. Load or write scripts for each unit test and debug using the test Map
Then you are ask to create your buildings
alot simplier than units just add some componets for defence sake and tiny amount of code to make it all work unless you turn it into a monster moving seige platform or somthing.
Note that each class (buildings too) will have a limited amount of space on it
Most of the optional chassis is for the space idea and some for the water idea too
Program
The program structure will be easy to do,
Split everything into includes and call them in the main file and execute them according when needed.
I’d like it to be mod friendly were a client will have a DLL or series of DLLs that can be easily updated and changed but core elements will be watched for cheating.
also I will try use as much recycled code and other peoples code as much as possible.
"make it as easy as possible"
for graphics I will be using Ogre
also I keep the loading system open uncompressed
so textures, materials(defination files),sound,sprites,ect will be all open
for audio I will use internal
but for music I will use Audiere becasue it can load a ton of files and if a user wants to put in his own music the player doesn't need to worry about music formats.
Data on the other hand will be mod friendly I use a hybrid pack/real file structure the program will look in the real path if not there it will load from pack if both places return “Not Found” it will give the user and error on the file missing.
for fily types as goes I will use tga for all images and wav for audio. as for material and scripts I will use lua.
I will post some more things soon.
This Project as originally thought up in 2002 i didn't really start programming it until 2003 i found that my design was so scattered that it would be impossible to even get it all together...
then in early 2004 i decided to try again this time designing it frist it was going great until i ran into the problem that ogre and it stop me there
now today i starting once again i am starting again i change the design so that orge will work and will be easier to code for me and more fun for the player
(it was on the planet surface before now it is space) and im more determed than ever!Comments/Ideas are Highly appeciated.