WIP New game I'm working on.

Hey, so I thought I'd brag a little about a new game I'm working on.
It's a hexagon grid, turn based (possibly Starship Troopers style) strategy game for my summer exam.
It's written in C# and XNA on our own engine (if you can call it that. We rely heavily on the XNA framework)
Pics: Album

It's still very early in the process but so far we've made the camera and map mostly work.
The blue dot is the cursor and when it's near the edge the camera moves.


We've got quite a way to go but next up is bases (castles) and units moving around on the map.

Download here: Download
You can only really move the camera, but if you go to Levels/TestMap/TestMap.xml and change a few 1 and 0's you can change the map.
Let me know what you think and I'll keep you updated as we add new things.

Interesting! I'll download it since I find this stuff very cool, and want to do it myself.. + c# yay! Best language ever!

Brilliant! the last one was super addictive.. =D

Wait what? Someone actually played my last game?

That made me go back and take a look at it's kongregate page. ~370 plays now. Account balance $.66. They only pay out at $500 or above (because no paypal). So that means I need 280,304 pageviews to get paid.. yay! only 279934 more views and I'm rich! Rich I tells ya!

Autonomous has stopped working

Crashed when i opened it

Played your previous game as well mate

What education are you following xazper? Think I asked this before but oh well

Viglen: Yeah I forgot. You have to have XNA Game Studio 4.0 installed. Here's the link: XNA

KerrermanisNL: It's an Academy Profession in computer science. It's a 2.5 year upper-collage/Uni education, with a special twist towards game development.

EDIT: So apparently I can compile it in a way so you won't have to install XNA. I won't do that out of pure lazyness but the next one I will.

Brainy buggers





edit: the only games i can make is boy/girl, hangerman.. and paper planes

I played your older game with the ogre and the catapult that was quite interesting.

We still need to have that chat about game AI, and talk about the how the AI from my final year project could be relevant. Interesting concept I am curious as to how your representing the hex grid, are you pointers from each hex to the neighbours, or mapping it to a some sort of grid.

Will have a look at your present implementation when I get home.

We have a 2D array of node objects. They have a vector2 property that determines their position to be drawn, this is set in the constructor when the xml file is read, along with other factors such as type (water, grass).
We use a camera with a matrix (don't ask me too much about that, it was my partners responsibility) to draw to the screen.

Download link is broke FYI

Anyone remember this thread? We've picked it back up and exams are approaching fast. We've changed a few things, for one it's now in THRREEEE-DEEEE! (3D)

New Album

There's still a way to go but we're working hard on it.

Cewl, looks a bit like Colonists of Catan? What gameplay are you going for?

"Turn based Macro Strategy"
Basically you tell your soldiers where to attack but not how to do it, you just tweak their behavior and they figure it out for themselves. It's a game of AI for our exams in a couple of weeks.

Ah interesting, I find AI to be very cool. Was recently thinking to make a tictactoe game and then thought to myself.. How the f would I make AI? So yeah.. Awesome