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My first RTS game

Started by bmarci Jul 5, 2002 at 11:17 AM 170 replies 26.1k views

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bmarci

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bmarci

Jul 5, 2002 at 11:17 AM

Hi! I''ve been "hard-working" on a Real-Time-Strategy game for 3 months. Actualy it does not have a title so far, but I have two screenshots, which I can share you with. The game is an Age of Empires "clone" in fully 3D environment. I hope you''ll like the pictures

A playable "demo" version will be available in 2-3 weeks (maybe) the images can be found here: http://www.tar.hu/boulderdash/Strat3Screen2.JPG http://www.tar.hu/boulderdash/Strat3Screen3.JPG have fun. -marci

Vlion

Jul 5, 2002 at 11:35 AM

Your links don

t work correctly...

I

d like to play the game tho !

bmarci

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bmarci

Jul 5, 2002 at 11:49 AM

Hello,

Here is an other place for the pics:
I think the geocities is more accessible from the US

http://www.geocities.com/bmarci7/Strat3Screen2.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/bmarci7/Strat3Screen3.JPG

ps.
be sure using the match case in the filenames!

-marci

nonnus29

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nonnus29

Jul 5, 2002 at 12:00 PM

Nice work! I am curious, where did you get the models? Make a playable demo!

Sandman

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Sandman

Jul 5, 2002 at 12:26 PM

Your first batch of links don't work, and the second batch have apparently exceeded their bandwidth quota...

[edit] ok the second batch seems to be working now...

[edited by - Sandman on July 5, 2002 1:27:51 PM]

bmarci

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bmarci

Jul 5, 2002 at 12:40 PM

The models and skeletal unit animations have been made by me

with my own 3d-object modeler

The data transfer restriction is not a cool thing. :/
I''ve uploaded a smaller images:

http://www.geocities.com/bmarci7/Strat3Screen2Low.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/bmarci7/Strat3Screen3Low.JPG

GroZZleR

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GroZZleR

Jul 5, 2002 at 1:14 PM

Its painfully obvious you''re a programmer and not an artist, but that doesn''t really matter...

Everything looks good, but the units are a little too big for the environment don''t you think? I mean, they''re as tall as the houses!

blueEbola

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blueEbola

Jul 5, 2002 at 4:26 PM

Looks good!

But yeah, those units are huge. How many poly''s are they?

Marvin

Jul 5, 2002 at 4:47 PM

Would love to look at those screenshots...

BUT

Quota exceeded, links dont work etc. I just wish people would NOT use geocities or anywhere with a quota.

Andrew Nguyen

Jul 5, 2002 at 6:03 PM

... looks alot like empire earth to me ...

brewknowc

Jul 5, 2002 at 9:48 PM

I don''t know how the game play is, but it looks pretty tight dude, good job!

- Free Your Mind -

TechWins

Jul 6, 2002 at 3:09 AM

>Its painfully obvious you''re a programmer and not an artist, but that doesn''t really matter...<

I''m not sure what you''re talking about? The graphics look very good. Yeah the units could be a little smaller, but regardless it looks great.

Good job.

Actually now that I looked at your second screenshot, I like the effect of the huge units. If the huge effect was what you were going for, then I like it.

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" - JFK

TechWins

Jul 6, 2002 at 3:09 AM

masterg

Jul 6, 2002 at 3:15 AM

The screens look great - seems like the game will be fairly distinctive among other''s of this nature. The large buildings didnt bother me, but the human''s size did. Good luck.

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elis-cool

Jul 6, 2002 at 6:15 AM

Stop going on about the art!! it looks great! just think off all the great programming that must be driving it!!

CEO Plunder Studios

bmarci

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bmarci

Jul 8, 2002 at 5:05 AM

Hi!

So, the units are really bigger than they should be

BUT it''s because the "construction" of the map. The Game environment is block based, and all the units take one or more blocks depending on the size eg: Catapults take 4 blocks.

I''m planning to make Workers and Warriors a bit smaller.
The units are made of 200-250 polys.
It''s too few for the size, but too much for the size of the army. The unit limit is 256 right now. In a great battle, the
25-30000 polys can kill the framerate

p.s.
For the unit/building size differences take a look at Warcraft 2

-marci

bmarci

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bmarci

Jul 8, 2002 at 8:28 AM

Hello,

Short notice about the BigMan

This game is being written just for the kicks, I have a pile of theory and ideas on visual things, pathfinding and stuff, and I wanted to put them all together in one program. Besides this game style is one of my favorite

Well, I wrote about the block based game map, and the pathfinding is uses this blockmap, therefore the unit movement is a bit like zig-zag thing. The standing humans can only be at the exact block center, and the moving ones can move from a block to an other

Now, I have ideas, how to make it smoother like in AOE2 or Warcraft3, but I think I keep this for the next game

So, the units must fill the entire block in size, to reach each other in battles.

Because of this effect, I had two choises:
1. Using the same blockmap for map tiles and for units (this is the current situation)
2. Using a smoother blockmap for units and pathfinding

The second case makes the pathfinding much slower and takes more memory, but I''m gonna find out something

have fun..
-marci

Uthman

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Uthman

Jul 8, 2002 at 12:39 PM

haha, you warcraft3''d age of empires! nice

bmarci

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bmarci

Aug 9, 2002 at 10:20 AM

Hi,

Here is the first public demo (loaded with bugs

)
I hope you''ll like it

http://www.gamedev.net/community/gds/projects/default.asp?projectID=689

Have fun!!!!

shurcool

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shurcool

Aug 9, 2002 at 11:39 AM

whoa, you like just released it, lucky me! :D dling right now. couldn''t look at the ss cuz geocities wouldn''t let me (bandwidth exceeded), but i am guessing this is from your game:

it''s obvious that it''s not your first game, but your first RTS game (right?)!

u''ll get more comments after i play it.

ok i played it and i have to say, this,... this is the best game i''ve ever seen made by one person. where did you get all those amazing models with so many animations? the gameplay is amazing, graphics are very well done. i can''t imagine how you could''ve accomplished THAT in 3 months. it''s just mind blowing...

ps. after playing for half an hour i moved my camera over black unexplored area and it started to load something from hd. a second later i was back in windows without any error message.

ps2. it does have a name! The Dark Legions, isn''t that right?

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shurcool
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