Help make this game better!

Discussion in 'Gamer Chat' started by Yamato_Cannon, Sep 3, 2008.

Help make this game better!

Discussion in 'Gamer Chat' started by Yamato_Cannon, Sep 3, 2008.

  1. Yamato_Cannon

    Yamato_Cannon New Member

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    Hey! I've recently started learning java, and my tinkering has turned into a full-blown game. What I need your guys' help with is making maps, as well as any other part of it that you think you could contribute to. Basically, its going to be a turn based strategy game set in the slight future.
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    it's glaringly obvious that I will need to massively revamp the graphics if this project is to get anywhere. Anyone who helps will be given the appropriate credit for what they did.
    The most important of these graphics are (based on the order of importance)-
    1:The Intro scene
    a: The background
    b: Icons that will be put in the dark portion of the gradient. The 5 I need are:
    I:Versus
    II:Campaign
    III:Boot Camp/Intro
    IV:Custom Levels
    V :Level Editor

    2:The units
    just 1 gif that displays the units, no rotation as of now
    3:Tile Markers
    These should be slightly transparant and indicate where the unit can
    a:Move
    b:Attack

    4:The Panels:
    a:panel seperators
    b:panels themselves - textures

    You can also just give me some temporary color suggests for anything in this screenshot (Panels to something other than black/blue, change unit stats around, add data to the upper panel) You get the idea

    Quick note - I appreciate any help you may or may not want to provide, but I don't want any help programming unless I ask something, this is something I made for fun, and will provide source code if anyone wants it, but it's basically something that I'm doing for practice since my school doesn't offer java programming as a class. I will need help making AI though, so help along those lines will be greatly appreciated.

    List of units you could make :
    Marine
    Conflagrate Infantry - flame thrower infantry
    Medic
    Rocket Infantry
    Sniper
    Scout - Jeep with a mounted machine gun
    Titan - Anti - air tank
    Transport - APC
    Combat Tank - Normal, single barreled tank
    STS Missile Tank - Tank with a missile launcher as its main arnament
    Heavy Tank - double barreled tank
    Shuttle - Chinook
    Helicopter - Apache
    Fighter - Dog Fighter, anti - air
    Bomber
    Cruiser - Capital Ship, immensely powerful
    Guided Bomb - Missile
    Nuclear Missile
    Turret - Basic Turret, base with a mounted turret
    Wall - Wall. 'nouff said

    If you can find firing sound effects for any of these units, that'd be a tremendous help. I'll also accept music suggestions. Thanks!
     
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  2. EatMeReturns

    EatMeReturns Happy Mapper Moderator

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    Expect some sort of City tileset from me, and possibly a City map. I'm going to go ahead and assume you want the tiles to have the same quality as the above, as well as the same style.

    For units, what kind of style and quality?
     
  3. Ursawarrior

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    the background is creepy
     
  4. Yamato_Cannon

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    Which is why I'm asking the community if anyone actually has some experience and could make a better one.
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    It would be cool if the tiles looked the same, but it really isn't a necessity. Since the city tileset would be different than the grass one, you would basically never see one with the other. For units, I really have no preference as long as they are sorta in the same style. You can make them any size, but just remember than they will rescale back to 40x40, so it would be best to keep the length & width of the image equal.
     
  5. Ursawarrior

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    whats the theme?
    like with tanks and stuff? i think i can make the background for the title
     
  6. Yamato_Cannon

    Yamato_Cannon New Member

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    The theme is a battle on a 2050 AD earth type of thing. Just think of a terran marine as your main model, and then give it different weapons / armor colors.
    It would be best to work on these:

    Conflagrate Infantry - flamethrower
    Medic - Heal
    Sniper - sniper rifle

    You could also try doing one of these:

    STS Missile Tank - Tank with long range missiles
    Scout - Motorcycle/ Jeep with twin machine guns
    Raider - Humvee with twin rocket launchers.

    Here is a marine/tank I've made.
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  7. Yamato_Cannon

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    yo, Ursa, not sure if you're still working on this or not, but if you are, it'd be cool if you could give me an approximate time when you'll be done. Anyone else is still welcome to make a map, which I'll then run through the engine and post the results of. By the way, here's the current build. (As you can see, i'm terrible at drawing units)
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  8. EatMeReturns

    EatMeReturns Happy Mapper Moderator

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    Image not working, and sorry I didn't submit anything, I got distracted by life in a box.
     
  9. kuvasz

    kuvasz Corrections Officer

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    I just noticed that you're looking to change the welcome screen so I threw one together.

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  10. Yamato_Cannon

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    Thanks, kuvasz, looks pretty good. I might use it and just replace the background with something more interesting. Now that I look back at my first post, it's kinda obvious that if anyone will help make maps, I'll have to provide some sort of level editor. Anyone have any suggestions on that sort of thing/how it should work?