Jagged Dudes tilemap-streaming game

[jonnection]

You log in and edit the games page. There are instructions in the wiki. I am outdoors now, can't help sorry.

[mougino]

Jonne, your graphics and your map are splendid
That looks like a great game! Is it already playable?

Nicolas

[jonnection]

That looks like a great game! Is it already playable?
Nicolas

No. And it probably will never be, unless someone is interested in making this type of game with me and sharing the workload.

When I saw Valden's tile map demo I just realized that a "Jagged Alliance"-type game with pseudo-3D buildings was possible. Then I just started drawing and coding. This is the result of about 6-8 hours of work combined over several evenings.

But to make it into a real game requires at least:
- collision detection
- line of sight calculation
- movement route calculation and obstacle avoidance
- game user interface
- enemy AI
- level design

Still, I am very proud of the animation and the graphics. I did not expect to get such an atmospheric and functional end result when I started making the art.

[deeph]

I'd like to help but personnaly I don't have that much time to program lately...

I've never played Jagged Alliance, but it seems to be a sort of tactical rpg/strategy game. I think you can ease a lot of things (movement calculation, AI) by using a pathfinding algorithm. Collisions with tiles are really easy too if you have sorted the tiles by "passability" (tiles that you can walk through first, and then others for example, just like I did with my tilemapper).

[jonnection]

Hahaa. Thanks for the inspirational links Deeph !

After reading about pathfinding algorithms & line of sight & field of vision I now have my first FOV code working. And its freaking awesome ! You can hide behind corners, shadows fall behind stones and stuff. I am projecting 8 rays (N,NE,E,SE,S,SW,W,NW) and interpolating a visibility map.

Walking along, shadow moving behind rocks and stuff ... you see inside buildings through windows and doors... it looks too awesome to leave alone. I'll make a video soon.

So I guess I'll continue for a while

[deeph]

Nice ! I can't wait to see

You're planning to implement vision for enemies ? That would be great because most games simply make them "omniscient", but therefore the AI is a little "cheated".

[erico]

Yep, wrote an article about exactly that ´cheat´, that is why I don´t fancy much the path finding thing.
I´d prefer to work with line of sight (LOS) and field of vision (FOV) plus AI.
Here some insight into it:
http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Category:FOV

And a nice comparison here:
http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?tit ... sed_worlds

Cheers!

[jonnection]

Here you go.

Some bugs still, but I know where the problems are.

[Drakker]

Wow! Amazing work as always Jonnection!

[erico]

Superb!
Say, is the middle face on the right Lee Van Cliff? It MUST be him!
Do we already have Morricone signed for the tracks?