There are some extra effects on top of what is displayed here which you'll see in the video when I get it made and uploaded. That crazy-looking beam at the top is two beam ships shooting each other at the same time, in case you were wondering.
Thursday 19 August 2010
Beam Ship Screenshot
The next major addition to the Programmable Spaceships fleet - the Beam Destroyer - is coming along nicely. I don't want to upload a video until I can get it shaded (current PC has rubbishy graphics card) but here's a non-shaded image to be getting on with.
There are some extra effects on top of what is displayed here which you'll see in the video when I get it made and uploaded. That crazy-looking beam at the top is two beam ships shooting each other at the same time, in case you were wondering.
There are some extra effects on top of what is displayed here which you'll see in the video when I get it made and uploaded. That crazy-looking beam at the top is two beam ships shooting each other at the same time, in case you were wondering.
Tuesday 17 August 2010
Interceptor Video
That's right! Another new video already! This demo shows a new ship type - the interceptor. The interceptor is fast & agile, and is designed for taking down bombers & heavy missiles. The interceptor has a rapid-fire but low range gatling laser as its armament.
Saturday 14 August 2010
New Video
I finally got around to getting a new video together. It shows the new skirmish/local match screen, a bit of code, and spaceships shooting missiles at each other. I'm hoping to get more videos showing the special abilities of each ship class together as I get them finished, so watch this space.
Wednesday 11 August 2010
An Update
I'm a little behind schedule due to a busy weekend and I'm not likely to get any less busy in the next few days. However, I should be able to get a video of the fleet designer, the skirmish screen and some more combat (still just the same ships though) within the next day or so.
Friday 6 August 2010
The Fleet Editor
The Fleet Editor is coming along nicely, so far allowing you to place, move and rotate ships. Once you save the fleet, the ships in the fleet are centered in the layout to aid positioning in games, so for example if you place all your ships in a vertical line on the right hand side of the layout, they'll end up in a vertical line in the middle of the layout.
Quite a lot of today was spent optimising the UI rendering. There's still some work to be done here but I've managed to drastically improve the performance of UI controls involving clipping such as the fleet selector and, less interestingly, buttons.
I'm planning to get a video showing a fleet being created and pitted against another in a 'skirmish' style game at some point this weekend but so far there's no skirmish screen so I'll need to get that done first. However, some screenshots of a fleet being designed, and of the fleet selector.
Quite a lot of today was spent optimising the UI rendering. There's still some work to be done here but I've managed to drastically improve the performance of UI controls involving clipping such as the fleet selector and, less interestingly, buttons.
I'm planning to get a video showing a fleet being created and pitted against another in a 'skirmish' style game at some point this weekend but so far there's no skirmish screen so I'll need to get that done first. However, some screenshots of a fleet being designed, and of the fleet selector.
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| A fleet being edited in the Fleet Editor |
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| The same fleet being viewed in the Fleet Selector |
Wednesday 4 August 2010
Fleet Positions
I'm currently working on the Fleet Editor, which allows you to position the ships in your fleet and select/edit the programs they run. This has led me to think about the positions of fleets during an engagement. The obvious positions have both fleets facing off against each other, but assuming one of the fleets has done some sort of warp towards the other, what's the chance that this would 'really' happen?
Now I'm not looking to really make a super realistic game but having random position engagements (like in many RTS games, where your starting structures/units are put in a random spot on the map) might be interesting - it would make randomly firing ahead of you when the engagement starts less effective, and would greatly reward intelligent flak, shield and interceptor positioning.
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Now I'm not looking to really make a super realistic game but having random position engagements (like in many RTS games, where your starting structures/units are put in a random spot on the map) might be interesting - it would make randomly firing ahead of you when the engagement starts less effective, and would greatly reward intelligent flak, shield and interceptor positioning.
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| A cleverly deployed (blue) fleet versus a not-so-smart (red) fleet |
Welcome!
I'm working on a game titled 'Programmable Spaceships' and I thought I'd set up a blog to keep interested people up-to-date with development, and also to get some encouragement and ideas from everyone out there on the interwebs.
In case you haven't guessed, the game is about programming spaceships. You create a fleet of spaceships, each with a program you've written loaded into it, and then seek out (via matchmaking or maybe a database of uploaded fleets) an opponent. Your programmed spaceships then duke it out, and the winner is the first fleet who wins.
The game is coming along nicely - here's a demo of some code being written and some spaceships fighting (mostly code, skip to about 2:30 for combat). I recommend you view the video in HD on Youtube if you're interested in the code - otherwise it'll be eyestrain city for you.
I intend to keep you fine people up to date with development news, videos, and hopefully eventually beta access. I also intend to get a slightly more appropriate and much less generic layout on here in the next few days. So, watch this space and I'll try and keep this thing interesting.
In case you haven't guessed, the game is about programming spaceships. You create a fleet of spaceships, each with a program you've written loaded into it, and then seek out (via matchmaking or maybe a database of uploaded fleets) an opponent. Your programmed spaceships then duke it out, and the winner is the first fleet who wins.
The game is coming along nicely - here's a demo of some code being written and some spaceships fighting (mostly code, skip to about 2:30 for combat). I recommend you view the video in HD on Youtube if you're interested in the code - otherwise it'll be eyestrain city for you.
I intend to keep you fine people up to date with development news, videos, and hopefully eventually beta access. I also intend to get a slightly more appropriate and much less generic layout on here in the next few days. So, watch this space and I'll try and keep this thing interesting.
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