Nice!

Can't unsee cyclops!  I'll have to work on that one..

I am going to try having the icon in white if selected - they won't all be green in the final version anyway.

First draft.. layout not tidied up yet.

Icons are (from left to right: Man icon - probably will be replaced.. Move, Fire, Equipment, Cancel Unit, Next Unit, Skip to next turn). I'll see if I can improve them a bit. Oh, the action type icons (move, fire, equipment) will be different colours depending on the Action Point cost of using it. So for example if the equipment icon is red then you will be able to change equipment, but not then be able to shoot.

Yes, a less grid like system would work, but the problem is in the implementation side. It's not a problem for illuminating, showing the areas each men can see on their turn (I can just draw polygons around the tiles to make them nicer shapes). The problem comes when you want to add what they can currently see to the rest of the map they have explored. Then the simple polygons start intersecting, and multiplying more and more with every tile moved. You'd get rid of some when whole tiles are revealed, but the maths for doing this would hurt my little brain!

You could just store the part revealed tiles in graphics memory, but at higher resolutions this could quickly add up.

I like the idea also!

Ugh.. I've been sick these last few days so not been able to do much of anything. 

The only thing I've managed to do (game wise) is to to look at changing the info panel that pops ups when you mouse over a unit to show their weapon and ammo as well. I'll have support for two weapons (one for each hand), but most of the units will probably only have one main one at a time anyway.

I'm trying to come up with icon designs for the commands you can do, I've got ones for move, fire, but I'm a little stuck for equipment, next unit, end turn. Any suggestions?

I'm scared for some reason! 

Prints would be nice - but don't get too carried away, we want to see more of the game first..

Is the snake thing supposed to be visible through the darker brown sand/earth tiles?

Yeah, I think I'll leave this issue for now so that I don't get bogged down here. I want to work on the interface a bit more next so it starts to become more like a game.

Nice, except I think you should have made Gomez as an outline (rather than shaded) with a Shaded Fez on top.. 

I've thought about the unseen tile, but it will still have the side effect of making everything look a bit more blocky (as with the black and violet backgrounds I posted before). That's one of the problems with working with tiles. 

When you collect a skill or an item, could it show a looping animation showing how to use it? I.e. fireball hiting a monster, freezing working, etc.?

I'm in a bit of a quandry.. visually I much prefer the original full map view. However this means that some missions where you have to explore through the fog of war (for terrain) can't be done unless I use something similar to what I've posted. But they don't look too good and don't really suit the graphical style.

The only other thing I can think of at the moment is to keep the full map view but restrict the scrolling to the areas you can see. Therefore the map naturally expands as you explore, but you can't see it all from the beginning. This would stop the black / missing tile effect, with the drawback that you could see some areas of the map (in terms of terrain) without actually exploring it properly.

Any thoughts?

One of your best yet CEDE!

Dirt bar? Is the player really a white bar of soap?

Oh well, I'll try again!

Does this look any better?

Beautiful work!! 

Hey, thanks for all the useful (and consistent) feedback! I guess I was going for something similar to X-Com, but there is no reason with modern technology that things can't be improved.

I'll have a look and see what it looks like with other colours / transparency / effects.

Keep giving me feedback, it all helps!