Turn-Based Strategy (again)

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For some reason I really like turn-based strategy games. After abandoning my last one, I'm back to working on another for a school project. Luckily, this has been a fairly straightforward project because I've solved a lot of the hard problems in other projects. I've been working alone, but I've still made a lot of progress.

The new game is a turn-based space combat game that is playable over TCP/IP with 2 players.

I made a choice to use Python for the whole project, even netcode, rendering, and other core engine stuff, but eventually it became pretty obvious that I needed to move to a better rendering solution. I had used pyOgre in the past with decent results, so I decided to give it a try again. It was a bit tedious to integrate the existing code with the new rendering system, but the change has been worth it.



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So far everything is going pretty well (except for the programmer art). Multiple players can connect to the server and move their ships around in turn. Combat works to a certain extent, but there's only one kind of attack, and there aren't any kind of particle effects or other visual feedback, so it's pretty bland. I have a few weeks left before the thing is due, so I believe I should have enough time to add those things.


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The space combat theme seems a little bland to me, so I don't know if i will continue this after the semester is over. I might change the theme and continue to work on it, though, because it essentially has everything that I would need to make a network-capable turn-based strategy game, and it doesn't make sense to throw that away.

EDIT: Every time I post I screw up images in some new, creative way