Nine of All Trades

_Sometimes, being lost is just an excuse to wander._

Actually finish a project this year

If information is power, in war, information is life.

Not much has changed functionally (not visually, anyways). Most of the work I did since the last update was updating user interface and visual aspects of the game, to make information available to the player.

Well, it doesn't look like much, but the AI is working as well as it needs to be for now.

Oh yeah, I guess this is that "gameplay" of Dual Resonance I've been talking about - guess I ought to explain some of it.

Down in the bottom left corner is your "Commander," a character that determines how many resources you get each turn (this one is Copper). To the right of her portrait is the list of units you can spawn in - usually, a maximum of 8, but for this scenario, just 1. Spawning in units costs gold (real creative, right?), and players can only do it in the blue zone, while the enemy can only spawn units on the red tiles. Each unit (usually) has one or two abilities. These abilities cost a resource called Resonance, but I'll explain that later when I actually have someting better to showcase them with (since I haven't decided on any abilities for Loyal Squire yet).

Some are mercenaries. Others are knights. And others are just civilians trying to survive.

It had been so long since they’d seen each other that Copper couldn’t help but  take a rest to catch up with Amarine. By the end of their conversation, like the Loyal Squire she was, Amarine had resolved to help Copper continue on her quest.

I T-pose in your general direction. Well, I guess it's not so much of a T-pose...

Tamin is a schirip, an alien race that uses that ring on their back to fly.

I designed her instead of studying for my physics exam during the week. While I was taking the exam, I doodled her on my scratch paper about halfway through to give my brain a quick rest.

Almanaught.

More's working on the first try than I was expecting... which probably means that there's a lot of things that are broken and I just don't know it yet.

It looks like the basics for Dual Resonance are lining up fairly well. This is showing units moving around freely around on the game board - too freely, but I wanted to make sure they could move at all - and soon, this will be freed from the confines of an error-prone CLI interface and let loose in a horrendously ugly 3D environment (as a 3D modeler I am not and the class requires the game to be in 3D).

UMLs, amiright?

This is the (preliminary) class diagram for the game I'll (hopefully) be working on this semester for one of my classes. It's tentatively called "Dual Resonance," and is an unholy amalgamation between a TRPG, card game, and RTS.

Lore: a lazy, wandering, deity of death.

I need to stop fiddling around with this, otherwise I’ll never get it done. (There’s a lot of things I’d like to change, but isn’t it pretty much always that way?)

Bob the Builder x Midna is the best pairing ever. Don't @ me.

Allomancy. One of the three metallic arts and an end-positive form of investiture. Native to Scadrial, Allomancy requires the user to ingest some metal for them to "burn" later on, giving them some power or benefit.

Shimmer is the patron of the Prismatic Arches. She's got the strongest maternal instinct in the group.

Screech is the patron of the Hanging City. Ironically, he’s on the quieter side.