Chess Wars (Chess themed Fire Emblem/Advanced Wars clone)

b/PC, Mac & Vintage Computers publicado por u/Scipi December 10, 2014, 10:13:39 PM

Chess Wars (Chess themed Fire Emblem/Advanced Wars clone)

Since I am going to continue development of my Ludum Dare entry from this thread, I decided to make a dedicated thread for it.

Here's a link to the Ludum Dare entry, if you wish to try it out: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=34647

Chess Wars is a Fire Emblem/Advanced Wars style game themed on Chess. Game play is pretty straightforward if you've never played FE or AW. You play on a grid and each turn you move your units and try to destroy all opposing units on the map. Here's a pretty good video showing gameplay from Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Right now, my game only has two modes: Hero and Army mode. In Hero mode, you control a couple powerful units to destroy the opposing army. In Army mode, you control an opposing army. Here's what it looks like as of this writing:

In the future I want to merge the two modes together, where you play mainly as the elite force (FE-style) with supporting army reinforcements (AW-style). I might also up the strategy part of the game where the campaign is dynamic, similar to Total War or Wargame campaigns.

Either way, I'll be updating this thread with progress that I make. Feedback and suggestions are very welcome.

EDIT:
Current Version (0.2.0): http://bit.ly/1xyNbQP

Last Edit: January 02, 2015, 03:27:24 AM by Scipi

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u/Dream of Omnimaga December 10, 2014, 10:17:01 PM

I'll have to give this a try when I have some time. I like how it looks so far and it keeps getting better every screenshot.

u/novenary December 11, 2014, 09:52:24 AM

Yup it looks pretty good.

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron December 11, 2014, 04:55:08 PM

It looks pretty nice! I should give it a try at playing or drawing tiles for it someday.

u/Dream of Omnimaga December 12, 2014, 05:42:59 AM

Ok I just tried this and I like the character movement and path arrow graphics so far. The only thing is that you should add some in-game instructions maybe.

Also, this looks like the type of game where Warcraft II style music would fit well

u/Scipi December 12, 2014, 05:34:52 PM

Yeah, an ingame tutorial would be nice

So far here's my planned list of changes:

-Finish up preliminary sprites for animations
-Mouse support
-Make maps smaller and with view scrolling
-Make content loading dynamic
-Spritesheet support
-Text engine
-More units/unit abilities
-More tiles
-Tile effects
-Capturable tiles
-Scripting engine support
-Custom map loading/saving (important for storyline work)
-Create storyline campaign

Once I get all that done, I can look into making a polished, professional grade game. Music and audio support is already coded into the engine, but I'm in need of musicians and audio engineers before I have any sound.

u/Dream of Omnimaga December 12, 2014, 05:40:17 PM

With dynamic content and tile effects, Will there be autotiles? (To make cliff/lake borders smoother?)

u/Scipi December 12, 2014, 06:44:08 PM

Yes, that is a plan, it shouldn't be too difficult. One idea is to make an intermediary "merger" tile that is rendered overtop the edge connecting the two adjacent tiles. So in that way it should be easy to make the sprites for each tile combination. I'll have to do some research into it and see if there are better ways to do it.

u/Dream of Omnimaga December 12, 2014, 07:16:17 PM

Ok cool to hear

. I had such tiles in Illusiat 12 but they only checked the tile below, not all 9 tiles surrounding it. I was also using 1 different sprite per possibilities.

Btw would you like a sub-forum for this?

u/Scipi December 12, 2014, 07:36:19 PM

I would like to see if I make more progress on this before getting a subforum. At least when there is more of a game rather than engine tech demo.

u/Dream of Omnimaga December 12, 2014, 09:28:19 PM

Ok no problem.

u/Scipi January 02, 2015, 01:07:14 AM

So I finally got some of my IRL commitments taken care of and had time to work on Chess Wars. I've implemented mouse controls. You now use the LMB to select and RMB to deselect. WASD and Space have been disabled since they are not needed currently.

Download: http://bit.ly/1xyNbQP

Next up will probably be either further balancing/making armies more manageable, or making larger tiles. I'll likely be working on increasing the tilesize from 32 to 64 once I start making some proper sprites for units and terrain.

u/Dream of Omnimaga January 02, 2015, 07:44:52 AM

Finally, mouse controls.

I tried the game for longer the other day and it was kinda fun, but having to control each character one by one in army mode took forever. Also yeah I still definitively think the tiles need to be less bright or at least contrast less against each others, because when I played, it was kinda hard to see stuff sometimes. Otherwise, keep up the good work and good luck.

u/Scipi January 02, 2015, 08:38:39 AM

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on January 02, 2015, 07:44:52 AM
Finally, mouse controls. I tried the game for longer the other day and it was kinda fun, but having to control each character one by one in army mode took forever. Also yeah I still definitively think the tiles need to be less bright or at least contrast less against each others, because when I played, it was kinda hard to see stuff sometimes. Otherwise, keep up the good work and good luck.

Part of increasing the tilesize from 32 to 64 will make seeing details much easier. And the new sprites will likely be similar in style to Fire Emblem make them more visible. Additionally, along with the larger tiles, there will be scrolling which will allow me to make variable sized maps instead of the hard coded 25x25 tile map currently in place. Which should help speed things up a bit.

u/Dream of Omnimaga January 03, 2015, 08:15:00 AM

Aah scrolling would definitively be nice. By the way do you have plans to support more standard resolution ratios such as 4:3 and 16:9? Also Fire Emblem style graphics would definitively be nice. As long as it doesn't look too tiled and that the tiles blend with each others (although even NES style like Zelda II world map or Dragon Quest would work).