Project Scavenger

I made a Post-Compo version of my LD34 game! (Jam: #18 Innovation, #51 Overall) - Read the blog - Play / Download :)

I participated again in a Ludum Dare! Please rate/play/provide feedback for Sanctuary Station! It is a tetris-like base builder in space. :)

(Shh still doing stuff a bit... here is some pathfinding gone awry ;))

My game-dev-death has been greatly exeggerated! (just RL stuff) Time to revive!

Revived the map-generator of my old prototype, replaced the old crappy triangulation lib with a shiny one (Poly2Tri if you need to know). Map is pretty basic still, but a good base to start the strategic map mode from.

Is this dialog mysterious enough? Yes? Good. Because it will probably be the first thing you see when you open the game. ;) A 'lingo-you-slowly-start-understanding-from-context' strategy, as used in books too. Probably is a real term for too or something. :)

Got quite a bit done, but still need moar! Can't wait until the basic tactical systems settle a bit and I can focus on balance & flavour more. Get in some more models, races & wacky traits!

It's a miracle what a few simple trails can do to add to the sense of 'speed', even in a turn-based game! I have been tweaking/populating the UI and generalized my 'random ship' generator. Also spent an evening sorting out a nice spline hex outline script - see the red outline in the middleleft. (yay Unity assetstore!) For a ridiculously large GIF with 'action', look here. (and an older one too)

Implementing ship crew, crew roles, crew actions, skills and limits thereon! Basically, every crewmember get only one action per turn, and to activate a component of the ship, you have to use an action. But what if you want to do more than one action? Well that is what captains and stress are for! Command characters can 'give' ("order") their action to any other crew under their command. Orrr you can push the characters' limits and give the crew one 'stress' to do it anyway. And stress will have bad effects... of course.

A little bit of progress on the programming front - but mostly progress on the 'components' of the ships. Determined I want fixed 'scales' (tiny, small, medium, large, huge, ...) applied everywhere, for clarity & more discrete (vs gradual) choices. Now to apply the idea -> code transformation!

This project has been on a hiatus for half a year - I got stuck in/frustrated with the last prototype. But inspiration struck last month! Now I'm going full-barrel-forward again. The new concept is sparkly! More to come later.

Well not that long, but summer / gaming has been distracting lately. So back to worrrk. Time to flesh out that damage resolution model I thought up earlier!

Damage - Make things go boom again, broke that a while back. Sorry guys, your immortality ends here!

Implement some 'line of sight' remembering for orders

Now how do you add crew to gameplay in a meaningfully and flavourful way? I decided long ago that I wanted them to be more than just 'another component' of your ship, to just be improved and discarded. They should have character - pluses and minuses, a bit like dynasty characters in the Total War series. Gameplay-wise I want them to be like real crew: they accept your orders and then execute those - with a little delay, maybe, but boosted by their skill. Make them give you a personal steam of text as to what/how they are doing.

I last (and first) participated in Ludum Dare #24, and I hope that I can get a more finished game done this time. I feel that I have more tools to pull it off this time. (switching from Moai to Unity3D this time, and gots lots of experience with that). You can read the Post Mortem of my last Ludum Try if you're interested.