Worlds Collide - 4X Turn Based Strategy
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| Hi All, I though I might put up some details of a game I've been working on for over a year now (on and off). Its mostly something I've been wanting to play myself and working on in my spare time. I am working on the AI now, after that is functional i should have a playable game though still missing a lot of the features I plan. Screenshots Game Description: 4X Turn based galactic strategy Hex Grid based map Modular based Ship design AI Corporations that are the base of your empires industry\research Jump based movement Detailed Empire Diplomacy Dynamic sensor FOW Thoughts behind current plans: Planets: Planets will be your income and resource production, ships can be produced in shipyards in space but ship components will come from the planets. Corps will mine resources on the planets but mine efficiency will drop for each mine on the planet, so there will be an optimal number of mines for each planet, which is effected by planets resource density too. Population is limited by food supply and housing, both don't have fixed limited but a planet can only produce so much food though you can import food from another planet to increase supported population. AI Corporations: I'm looking at AI corps to give you a sense of an established empire without all the micro-management. This will also create targets of opportunity for trade routes and construction yards, but if you chose to attack a the corps within the empire you may be burning your bridges so if you take over their planets the corp will move on and won't help your infrastructure. Corps may be loyal to their home empire or may not, If they are loyal they may give discounts to purchases or even commit some of their security forces to defending your space Ships: Ships will be modular based that you design, one big thing i'm thinking is to not have shields... so you can't just send off one powerful fleet\ship to kill half the enemy, it will still take damage and need to come back to repair. Tech can decrease the damage you take. you might have a stock of parts to allow repair infield once but this will be consumed and need to be restocked. Jump Movement: I'm thinking of Jump based movement to allow more decisions before you take your turn. You could jump max distance but not know if you will land on hostile ships or jump shorter\save capacitor but only get one move per turn, This will also encourage the use of expendable scouts Fleets: What I hope to avoid is hard group\fleet limits instead i plan to have AOE weapons that will damage all ships on a grid but are weaker then point blank weapons. Graphically as more ships collect on a grid it will just re-scale all ships so it visually fits on the grid. Empire Diplomacy: I'm working on having detailed diplomacy but without having over complication. I plan to include just a few different types of treaties. Some of the treaties such as alliances can be ruled by a voting system and this can be determined by which type of alliance you choose to create. If your a warrior race you might form an alliance with other warrior races and votes will be counted on military strength. Or you could like defense and diplomacy and form an alliance on total population or even just one vote per empire. Alliance Votes: Alliances can vote on anything from who to declare war on to kicking out members or inviting new ones. Again I don't want to create to many options so that only one or two get used. Sensor Behavior: For detecting other ships it will work from a degrading strength out from your ship. You could have sensors that can detect pretty far but only the most obvious , etc. Detection will be based on a sensor signature for each ship and will add together for each ship on the grid, so large fleets will be easy to detect, and solo ships can stay undetected easier. Sensor strengths will work off the highest number, so large fleets wont detect other ships any easier then the ship in the fleet with the best sensors... i could include a small stacking boost to sensor strength but balance those options later. Research: Still determining how to do this. I don't want to an empire to be able to out research another empire and their ships can't even scratch them. a few thoughts for this is to have research actually done by corps and not directly controlled then you just purchase licencing off the corp. this would mean the newest tech is expensive but comes down with age so smaller empire could always purchase the older techs even if from another empire. Corp loyalty will effect this and could stop a corp selling any tech to an empire. Plus you could help research along buy injecting cash\grants into the corp and defending research outpost\projects from hostiles\pirates. This may be too hands off but will try this way first and evaluate from there. Standard Game Items: I'm still looking at having a lot of the whats considered standard 4X space items such as, asteroid belts, nebula's, wormholes, stations, pirates, events, wonders, etc. these are things that i will add as i go and determine how the fit in. Inspiration: Galactic Civilizations, Civilization V, Anno, Endless Space, EVE Online. I like the diplomacy in GC, forming alliances then declaring war on half the galaxy at once. Civ V has good unit control (not perfect) but the controlling and attacking armys was fun. Endless space has a great UI and streamlined interface and gameplay that is great, would like have a bit more depth with it. EVE has great economy and depth with dynamic ship combinations and setups. Wow yeah i guess I've thought about it a lot... lol. but yeah if you've read all that and are still interested in anything or want more info\plans, I wouldn't mind seeing what other people think of these ideas and hearing suggestions. |
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| Amazing! Looking forward to this! |
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| Looks great. Keep up the good work. I'm a big fan of Galactic Civilizations 2. |
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| can't wait! |
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| Hi, just thought I'd post a quick update incase anyone is interested in my ongoing development. I decided to start a blog to record my progress and updates in-case anyone is interested: KWFLGames Didn't think I should be spamming this post just with tiny updates or things that I have completed recently. Maybe people can help me chose a name too, had to add a token poll for my first blog too... ;) lol might even put some short videos up there soon if I don't think it looks too incomplete or if people are interested. Thanks, |
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| Civilization in space? How about Nebulization. |
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| Hi All, Just thought I'd let anyone interested know that if you want to check out an early build of the game you can download a pre-pre-alpha build from my blog http://kwflgames.blogspot.com.au/. Would be glad to hear any initial feedback or thoughts on it :) Thanks, |
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| Looks like my kind of game. |
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| Hi, Wow can't believe it's been 2 years since I posted here (blog has been updated a little more often). I've just posted another update on the blog for those interested, progress has been steady even if a bit slow ;) http://kwflgames.blogspot.com.au/ Should have details of the tech system and some GUI shots up soon too! Happy to answer any questions you may have? Thanks, |
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| Wow, looks awesome. Which wrapper do you use for using Irrlicht with Blitzmax? |
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| I stand by my 2 year old statement: Still looks like something I would play :) |
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| Thanks Guys :) I'm using the GMans BMax mod for Irilicht not sure if the site is still live though... I've had to modify the wrapper\DLL a bit for a few things I needed that were missing, mostly shader or particle related changes. I do have an old test version of the game up on indie DB, is an older one and buggy but might give a little feel for it if you're interested and hadn't tried it yet. http://www.indiedb.com/games/worlds-collide I think I'll focus on stabilizing my current build and trying to make sure you can play to an end game, even if its basic to start with, before I post up another build for testing. |
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