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[Retropunch]

HUZZAH!
Great to see you've been working on this!

My one humble request would be to really try to make this expandable. Heavily comment the code and try to do it in the most module-based way possible and I'm sure you could start something incredibly impressive (DCSS style!). So many people would love to contribute and help, but it's difficult to jump into a lot of projects.

Just a thought - fantastic to see progress being made in any form though!!

[GentlemanRaptor]

Bumpity bump. Any progress?

[Puzzlemaker]

Bumpity bump. Any progress?

Actually, I was just working on it.

Currently doing UI stuff... kind of hard to get motivated, because it's not as fun (And I don't know what I am doing so I have to teach myself first).

I've been fairly busy, but hopefully I can have an update out this week sometime.  It wont have any gameplay elements, but it should have some mockup UI for things.

Edit:  I just realized how much time has passed... damn, that's annoying, time flies.  I really will try to have something out by next weekend.

[Puzzlemaker]

Alright, I got a new version out, with a slightly better GUI.  No gameplay yet, I want to finish a "vertical slice" of the game first.  I will probably work on planet generation so I can have terrain, then finally get to the planet-side combat, which I will have to play around with.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/g75cicrcmuvcrb0/Imperium_Built.rar

I also edited the first post.

[Retropunch]

Can you add some screenshots to the first post? Might drag in more interest!

[Puzzlemaker]

Can you add some screenshots to the first post? Might drag in more interest!

Well, it looks like shit right now and doesn't have any gameplay.  Once one of those is fixed I'll probably add screenshots and stuff... untill then, I take an hour or so after work when I can and plug away at it.

[Puzzlemaker]

So, while coding up the planetary side of things, I realized a little problem.  How should I handle the game having battles on all these different worlds?  Should I let them go on in the background or abstract them away if you aren't involved?

I am leaning towards background... it means I would have to generate all the planets in the game in the background (And make them invisible), hopping to them and making them visible when needed.

Hmm.

[Rolepgeek]

I would say make it a push and pull abstracted system for each world.

[GentlemanRaptor]

It depends on the kind of resources/time that you have. If you want to get the core stuff together first so that the game is playable, I'd abstract it until a later date. If you want to put the complete product out all at once, and have some time, I'd work up the code for letting them occur in the background.

[Puzzlemaker]

I feel like the battlefield is a "Core" compononent, so it's fairly important to get right.  The question is if I want to have the system simulate all those battlefields even if the player isn't there.  I am leaning towards no, and just abstracting them away (Like dwarf fortress abstracts away the rest of the world).

Planning to have a rough prototype of the battlefield out by the end of next weekend.  The weekend after that I hope to have everything connected up, and start work on the logistics side of things.

[GentlemanRaptor]

Any progress with this?

[Puzzlemaker]

A little, thanks for poking me.  I didn't get anything done on the july 4th weekend due to beer.  It's a bit annoying, I program for work and then I go home and program some more.

Progress will continue to be slow for awhile, I think, while I learn unity and stuff.  I'll keep poking at it.

[Puzzlemaker]

So I made an upgraded version with a better GUI:

https://www.mediafire.com/?g75cicrcmuvcrb0

This contains two .exe's, one for the planetscape and one for the starmap.  I haven't combined them yet, they exists as two completely different scenes.  You can move around the planetscape by using the arrow keys.

Now I just have to figure out the meat of the planetscape...

[Liber celi]

I can't run those .exes on me olde hardware ;_;

[Puzzlemaker]

I can't run those .exes on me olde hardware ;_;

Sorry, is it a 32 vs 64 bit problem, or just old drivers?