Plan for Gavin Beer

Well initially i decided to jump in and start to learn T2D and tScript by creating a simple mini project, in this instance a turn based strategy game called 'kings'. It wouldn't be highly original in as much as the game involved creating an army and try to destroy the other teams king.

So far its been great fun, if not at times a head ache. So far the under lying code is there for the player selection, and unit creation. The graphics need a little work as you may be able to tell from this shot:


( if n e 1 wants to help with the terrain tiles would much appreciate it :D )

The water is animated, it uses a 3 frame animated tile, but i wil introduce more animated tiles like moving trees and swaying grass in long grass areas.

at the moment the movement is the major headache. I was going to use a system where by you select the unit to move, select thier move option and it was produce a grid around the unit showing all possible moves for that unit, however this was more effort than it was worth, now what i am going to do is when the option to 'move' the unit is selected a path will be drawn between the unit and the mouse pointer, it will use A* kind of path finding to find the shortest distance, then once the unit is move it will kill off the path. This will take int account that different types of terrain will need more move points than others and each type of unit will be allocated more points per turn than others.

All crits and comments welcome, and i'll update it all as i progress ;)