Trying to build steam for a TBS hex based 2D fantasy game
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Trying to build steam for a TBS hex based 2D fantasy game
Hi Wesnoth forums.
I posted this on reddit a little while back, it ended up with 7k upvotes and made me think really want to play my game concept.
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Here is a game design doc I am working on, if you want to bore yourself to sleep: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CcT ... edit?pli=1
Here are some assets I have compiled. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mcajpo4rrgqmzju/gGmT-kzQzU
The problem is, I am a character artist and animator with no programming skills, and not so great leadership skills. I have found a few people willing to help, but its tough going. Any feedback welcome.
I posted this on reddit a little while back, it ended up with 7k upvotes and made me think really want to play my game concept.
[img]
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/120 ... ighRez.png[/img]
Here is a game design doc I am working on, if you want to bore yourself to sleep: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CcT ... edit?pli=1
Here are some assets I have compiled. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mcajpo4rrgqmzju/gGmT-kzQzU
The problem is, I am a character artist and animator with no programming skills, and not so great leadership skills. I have found a few people willing to help, but its tough going. Any feedback welcome.
Re: Trying to build steam for a TBS hex based 2D fantasy gam
Hello Nasturtium and welcome to the forums.
Nice concept you have there.
Beside the feature of moving several units in a formation your ideas should be more or less easy to be implemented in our WML scripting language or in Lua.
Maybe the formation feature can also be done with some hacking.
Thus you have the option to produce a wesnoth mod, saving time with the development of your own engine.
Nice concept you have there.
The Wesnoth engine is versatile enough to be reused for your project.Nasturtium wrote:The problem is, I am a character artist and animator with no programming skills, and not so great leadership skills. I have found a few people willing to help, but its tough going. Any feedback welcome.
Beside the feature of moving several units in a formation your ideas should be more or less easy to be implemented in our WML scripting language or in Lua.
Maybe the formation feature can also be done with some hacking.
Thus you have the option to produce a wesnoth mod, saving time with the development of your own engine.
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Re: Trying to build steam for a TBS hex based 2D fantasy gam
Thanks for the reply. I am not super knowledgeable when it comes to coding and engines etc... the main thing that I absolutely need is a way to display potentially thousands of bone based animations (.json) on the screen at once. Is the Wesnoth engine capable of interacting with bone based skeletal animations?
Re: Trying to build steam for a TBS hex based 2D fantasy gam
Not really. All we have is based on sprites and absolute locations (well, relative to a hex, but not relative to another sprite). I suppose the requisite calculations could be done in formula or lua, but I wouldn't recommend trying it. You may want to take a look at anura (frogatto's engine) instead. Its data language is FSON (a superset of JSON) and it has a very powerful functional language built in.
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Re: Trying to build steam for a TBS hex based 2D fantasy gam
I can't seem to find his thread, can you please link it to me? thanks for the suggestion
Re: Trying to build steam for a TBS hex based 2D fantasy gam
Frogatto is not a Wesnoth mod, it's another game developped by some of Wesnoth Developpers.
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