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A game called DayZ has been getting a lot of attention lately, and I hope to be able to try it out soon. FPS play can be very exciting and immersive, but I still find myself coming back to turn-based games like TBSes and roguelikes in the end. Turn-based games in multiplayer run into a…
I was just looking at Board Game Geek, and got a vague idea for a persistent CCG that could be played as a browser MMO. You’d control a city in which you can place structure cards. These cards will generate resources every turn. Every day, you’ll draw a new hand of cards, that can be…
Just thought I’d share the final functions I settled on for isometric coordinate calculations. Unlike most of the others I’ve seen around the web, these account for: * Origin offset * Tile-based position offset * Varied scale * Any aspect ratio (not just 2:1) def GetScreenPositionForTile(self, map_pos, view, origin, offset, delta=None): if self.projection == Layer.Projections.BirdsEye:…
An idea for a civ-like game has been banging around in my head for a while, and I wanted to put some ideas down. The layered node structure I’ve been working on gave me the idea, as I thought it would apply very well to a game that takes place on multiple levels of scale.…
While ZedZed required only simple directional pathfinding (zombies are stupid, so advanced pathfinding is not needed), Demon Keeper required some more advanced techniques to facilitate targeting. I found a great A* tutorial, and some great additional information, which helped me get started, but it wasn’t quite what I needed. The first thing I did was…