[LIVE] Strategy game development

[Sockerdrickan]

48 hours game development challenge

Started Friday 22:00 (GMT+1)
Ending Sunday 22:00 (GMT+1)

SpeedStrat is a realtime strategy game to be developed within 48 hours. Gameplay is somewhat like age of empires or red alert. The game is being written in C++ with SDL for those who care. This thread is filled with screenshots that's been taken through development time.

What I still need from you:
Better sprites

Tonight the fat lady sings :guitar:

[Artificial Intelligence]

*me waiting*

A bit hard to come with a name right now without more info :lolflag:


oh...I voted yes!

[Bios Element]

Erm...As great an idea as this sounds, this sounds like a repeat of the Spring Project. >.>

[eragon100]

Erm...As great an idea as this sounds, this sounds like a repeat of the Spring Project. >.>

Was that written in 3 days?

AFAIK spring is only an engine, right?

[Bios Element]

Was that written in 3 days?

AFAIK spring is only an engine, right?

No and yes. Who cares if it's written in 3 days? It only gets bragging rights. What's better is a quality game and It seems rather silly to repeat what's already been started with Spring.

[Sockerdrickan]

70 minutes and 250 rows of code

-general code
-basic map loading

[eragon100]

70 minutes and 250 rows of code

-general code
-basic map loading

Cool!, I am sorry I can't program in C++ myself (I am learning python as my first language currently) :(

Could you also make a fighting game sometime, like mortal kombat? There are no games of that sort for linux (yes, I mean 0, none at all) ? :wink:

[Gutt]

Good luck Tux0r ! Sorry that I can't help you out with anything :-( , but I'd love to see what the final product is :P !

[Vadi]

I'd recommend that you use the spring rts engine for your game.

[Sockerdrickan]

If someone could make a better 128x96 house it would be great

[eragon100]

question: it says x86_64 in the screenshot, it isn't going to be 64-bit only, right? I need a 32-bit version!

BTW, impressive to write that in an hour :)

Can't help with the house tough, it's 12:35 AM here, I want to go sleep :(

[Sockerdrickan]

It's going to be for 32bit, 64bit ubuntu, windows etc (or any platform you want with the source itself)
yeah I should probably go to sleep too so I can continue early in the morning

[eragon100]

It's going to be for 32bit, 64bit ubuntu, windows etc (or any platform you want with the source itself)
yeah I should probably go to sleep too so I can continue early in the morning

Great!, but perhaps you should make it windows-incompatible.


The more linux-only software, the more people are forced to run linux, the better the chance we have to win this war :wink:

I also have an idea for that house you wanted: since you have only 48 hours, can't you use some of the artwork from the battle for wesnoth? It's under the GPL, and they have some nice drawings of homes, terrain,and units. You could at least use some of it.

[Sockerdrickan]

Good morning!
Yes that's another way of seeing it! ;)

I'm going to add life bars to objects now

[Sockerdrickan]

There we go :popcorn:
edit: now becomes red when HP is <30

[eragon100]

There we go :popcorn:
edit: now becomes red when HP is <30

How can you do all this in so little time, I tought C++ was a very difficuly language to use, and that this would take 1000's of lines of code :confused:

[Sockerdrickan]

It's easy after you have written a few games (check out www.tuxemu.se.nu for a few projects)

added another object and made HP bars work with any sprite size

[eragon100]

Is there going to be blood if you hit / kill an enemy? that'd be pretty cool :)

[Sockerdrickan]

Yeah it's probably going to be bloody

I'm going to add camera movement and warriors next

[Gutt]

Nice work Tux0r, you code pretty fast :-P and everything seems to be going well!

[eragon100]

Yeah it's probably going to be bloody



Nice! :guitar:

[Sockerdrickan]

Camera movement done! :popcorn: (W A S D or arrow keys, you decide)

[eragon100]

W A S D please, they are my favorites for movement. :popcorn:

[Sockerdrickan]

W A S D please, they are my favorites for movement. :popcorn:
Well that's the idea, both W A S D and arrow keys work at the same time, use whichever you like! Also, now left shift and right shift doubles the camera speed!

[eragon100]

How many lines of code have you written by now, 1000?

[Sockerdrickan]

I'm pretty good at well written game code, 380 lines

[eragon100]

I hope I will be capable of working so fast too once I have learned to use python :D

[Sockerdrickan]

of course all graphics will be better in the future I just don't have the time right now:popcorn:

The training bar is visible when you hold down left control or right control, if you don't it will not be visible=more view of battles

[eragon100]

I have to go shopping, I will be back in three hours or so.

Good luck and have fun coding! :wink:

[Gutt]

of course all graphics will be better in the future I just don't have the time right now:popcorn:

The training bar is visible when you hold down left control or right control, if you don't it will not be visible=more view of battles

The graphics are ok at this stage, I mean, at the speed you're going it's already great :KS !

[Sockerdrickan]

GUI :popcorn: going to add training code now

[MaximB]

In your poll I voted for "Yes" only due to the wide meaning of "something playable".
If I can move 1 unit to other place of the map, and even able to destroy building - is it playable ?

Anyway, I think you are doing a great job to take a project like this.
And I think that if you invest more time on a bigger project or better yet join existing one - it would be even better.

I doubt that many users will play your current game (how good the game can be made in a few days ?), but if you undertake a bigger game - it could be fantastic.

[Gutt]

In your poll I voted for "Yes" only due to the wide meaning of "something playable".
If I can move 1 unit to other place of the map, and even able to destroy building - is it playable ?

Anyway, I think you are doing a great job to take a project like this.
And I think that if you invest more time on a bigger project or better yet join existing one - it would be even better.

I doubt that many users will play your current game (how good the game can be made in a few days ?), but if you undertake a bigger game - it could be fantastic.


He's right :) . I'd still try your game, but if you could join or make a project on a long term, it'd be really great !

[Sockerdrickan]

I have other larger projects of my own I just wanted to take a challenge and give the result to the community. (I know some people like new games even though they might be seen as simple)

[Gutt]

And you're doing really well in your challenge :-D !

What are your other projects ?

[Sockerdrickan]

The ones I'm currently working on are:
- Gameboy/Color emulator
- A clone of the first Pokemon game 100% written from scratch
- Game engine (OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL...)

You can read more about the two first here www.tuxemu.se.nu (http://www.tuxemu.se.nu)

[Gutt]

Nice projects :-D !

I like the Gameboy/Color emulator project, and why not for Pokémon hehe :) .

[Sockerdrickan]

Ok you can now train warriors, now I have to make them controllable ;) :popcorn:

BTW: We still need a name ;) My lame suggestion is SpeedStrat

[Sockerdrickan]

It's about 21 hours left to the finish line.

I have just made warriors controllable, you select them with left mouse and click somewhere to make them move to that spot. Right click clears selections.

What I have to do when I wake up:
-Collisions
-Warriors must be able to hurt structures and enemy warriors
-Computer as enemy player

If I get the time:
-Sound
-Better graphics

Good night this is Robin signing off. :guitar:

[Gutt]

Ok you can now train warriors, now I have to make them controllable ;) :popcorn:

BTW: We still need a name ;) My lame suggestion is SpeedStrat

Why not, SpeedStrat doesn't look bad to me, would also reflect the speed of your coding :lolflag: .

[Sockerdrickan]

Warriors can now hurt structures at your command, next up are collisions

[Gutt]

Nice :) !

How much time do you have left :-P ?

[Sockerdrickan]

about 10 hours! and I'm taking risky breaks!

[Gutt]

Hmm, 10h should be sufficient even with risky breaks :-P !

Just keep on coding !

[Sockerdrickan]

OK breaks' over!

I'm gonna program until the program is a finished program!!

Witnessed today at Ubuntu Forums is the new world record of 10 lines/second, no man has ever written C++ code this fast.

[Gutt]

OK breaks' over!

I'm gonna program until the program is a finished program!!

Witnessed today at Ubuntu Forums is the new world record of 10 lines/second, no man has ever written C++ code this fast.

Don't kill your fingers :) !

Hope we'll get something to try by tonight :popcorn: !

[Sockerdrickan]

Try it tonight?? Why not try it on now, huh? ;)


Help:

press 1, 2 ,3 and 4 to train different warriors

press spacebar to toggle train bar or ctrl to show it

W A S D and arrow keys to move camera

click warriors to toggle selection and click where they shall go or right mouse to deselect all warriors

if they touch enemy structure it weakens.

destroy all enemy structure.

:popcorn:

[Gutt]

Got it to work, can move camera, toggle train bar, but I can't train soldiers..

[Sockerdrickan]

press 1 2 3 4 keys (on keyboard)

[Gutt]

I'm on a french keyboard... so that may be causing the problem.

I press 1 2 3 4 and nothing happens

[Sockerdrickan]

Ok in the final version you will be able to click the warrior images as an alternative, btw warrior to warrior collision is done :D

[Gutt]

Ok :D .

Everything is working fine besides that ! (I'm gonna see if I can find out why it's not working..)

[Gutt]

It's almost the end of Sunday (well, in Europe at least), is the game finished :-P ?

[eragon100]

Yeah, only 54 minutes left. :lolflag:

I am going to sleep, good night.

[Sockerdrickan]

Yeah dude I'm pretty much done, I slept to much yesterday, giving me an hour after school today to write a bot that controls the other team :popcorn: also the voting ended yesterday at 72% "Yes!"