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I wanted to improve the graphic quality for Merc Tactics by adding a SSAO shader and I looked into several techniques. The best quality...
My game Merc Tactics uses a simple shadow map to create shadows, but I had a lot of trouble getting it to work without artifacts. In particular peter...
I remember reading a blog post about a game developer who forget to include a sound file for his game update and that caused the game to close down...
I thought I'd share some of the tips and tricks I learned using the Bullet Physics SDK in my game.(This is a work in progress. There might be some...
I released version 1.3 this week, finally adding grenades, a feature that I have being promising for some time. Grenades helps making the types of...
This week we've released version 1.2 of Merc Tactics. Scopes and silencer attachments are the major new feature for this version, but we also made...
In a previous blog I talked about the “dynamic difficulty” feature of Merc Tactics (https://www.gamedev.net/blogs/entry/2265699-dynamic-difficulty/)...
This release mainly improves graphics. I realised that I needed to do this looking the ugly default graphic that Google shows when you search for...
A new demo version of Merc Tactics has being released on Itch: https://ed-welch.itch.io/merc-tactics This version fixes a bug which prevented the...
Typically, at the start of a game you are presented with the game difficulty menu, as above. Players should choose the level according to their...
Today we are releasing the 3rd game demo. You can download the Windows installer here: http://www.astronautz.com/MercTactics/MercTacticsSetup0.6.exe...
I just finished the new poster artwork for MercTactics. I hope you like it. Watch this space, there are a lot of new improvements and I will be...
Most squad based games have an interrupt feature that works as follows: During your turn you can arrange it that some of your soldiers don't use up...
I had really an awful time trying to put together a decent trailer video for the demo that I just released.Apart from all the trouble I had trying to...
Hello All,Today I have prepared a special version of Merc Tactics for game play testing. You can download the installation program here:...
All scene's in MercTactics are generated randomly. Previously, I've just "sprinkled" stuff into a scene randomly, but this doesn't look very good....
During the last few weeks I was working on the terrain for my game. All scenes in the game are generated randomly, so the ground texture needs to be...
I had to put the game on hold for the last 6 months, because I've been too busy working, but now I'm back on the game full time.Last week I started...
I released a new version of Merc Tactics.It can be found here: http://astronautz.com/MercTactics/MercTacticsSetup.exeInstructions on how to play...
As promised in my last post, I am releasing an early beta version of Merc Tactics.Merc tactics is a squad based game similiar to Jagged Alliance. It...
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