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[Ed]

Current version:

Hmmm.. I've been messing around learning Flixel, and in the process making a little tactics engine... so I figure I might as well enter it.

The main asset I want to use is this crazy menagerie of bad boys.
And not because of the post in the "these should be used" sticky. I'm a sucker for menageries. Some other small silhouette assets might also fit in.

Currently, I'm struggling to work out what to use for tiles. Here's a little mockup using some of tocky's stuff, but I had to add a black outline to the sprites. I *think* I can do this at runtime in flixel, but I'm not sure... Anyway, much as I love those tiles, maybe it should be a more sparse, consistent, Spectrumish look using some other tiles to do something like this? Anyone got any thoughts?

The main reference points for the game are the Chaos, Rebelstar and Laser Squad games, and stuff like Space Hulk.

I'll publish the "playable" preview in a bit... the joys of flash!!

_{(Oh, and sorry about the Myconomicon project which started with a fancy announcement and then sank immediately... time and tendons screwed us over a bit.)}

[kiwi]

I liked the first one better
Also on the topic of adding the black outline during runtime, you could use a glow filter I guess

[Ed]

Thanks
This one is more achievable though, for various reasons.

Regarding outlines, I mean it would be possible to do it at the pixel level, as in SDL. Anyway, might be irrelevent since I might go with the Rebelstar/Chaos look.

I should be able to upload something tomorrow... I just want to fix some UI bugs and play about with the tileset a bit first.

[Inanimate]

Wow this... this is going to be awesome! Glad to see those graphics being put to use!

[yokomeshi]

Cheers, mate!

[oryx]

I think you should use the iso-tiles that went with the character tileset, or just super simple b/w line walls.

[Ed]

Thanks guys!
(edit: I kind of want to avoid iso stuff as I don't really have much experience wrangling the numbers, so it would be a bit too time consuming. Also I like the Laser Squad 2.5D projection too much!)

New mockup (which I may not have time to convert into a playable thing today, might be next year )



Features:

• yokomeshi's dudes,
• easyname's 1-bit tiles (repurposed in 16x16 form),
• ETG's gun guys and some tiles,
• xion's strangely nonchalant robo-skele-devils (who will be the main bad guys with 4 levels of strength/decay),
• Oddball's (Arne's) palette for colorizing
• More to come...

The characters still require a black outline but I'm sure it's doable. I'm also looking into procedurally one-bitifying some other little bits and pieces

[Ed]

Here's a preview!

CLICK TO BATTLE... YOURSELF

There's no AI, so you have to play both teams.

The HUD is a mess, that's the next job (maybe). There will be some slide-on panels for the selected character and the targetted character, along with a % indicator for attacks.

There are two archers there, but no ranged combat yet

There are currently a few non-assemblee placeholder things in there, they'll be replaced soon

The semi-PG map system is running. I have it almost set up so I can author the maps as PNGs and then when it loads them it will convert them into nice tiles. Currently it uses a single simple text file.

I've added sounds, mainly for a bit of feedback when attacking (although eventually there will be some nice yokomeshi-explosions as well).

Sound credits - may not all be used (yet), I got very confused with all the wav files:
  Stian Stark, pgil, FeebleTheMighty, Saros, Shaktool
Music:
  Atuun - "Flaut"

[Mikademus]

Tested, working well. White side won. Not much tactics to the tactical side of the game yet, but that'll come I guess. A double-pixel feature might be handy?

[Ed]

Tested, working well. White side won. Not much tactics to the tactical side of the game yet, but that'll come I guess.

Thanks for testing! Yeah, tactics are absolutely minimal right now. In fact they might not be amazing in the final build, but we'll see...

A double-pixel feature might be handy?

It should currently be running at 2x zoom (400x320 game in 800x640 monitor pixels). Was this what you meant? I haven't tried changing the flixel setting at runtime, but if it doesn't like it I'll just compile a few versions at different zooms.

[kiwi]

Sweet, I like the music and sound effects, can't wait for the finished version.
Good luck with your development.

[Kazerad]

I lost 

Seriously though, great start. The visuals and sounds work together perfectly.

[J. R. Hill]

Wow, the green team is seriously underpowered in this.  But I guess for a beginner level it should be pretty hard to lose.

Also: The white text is really hard to read on the light grey turn-indicating bar.

[oryx]

Really like this so far, has a nice mood and feel to it. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

Suggestions:
Needs a simple attack bounce or something.
Visible health bar next to each unit? or alternatively the ability to select any unit to see how healthy they are.
And obviously stuff like arrows and magic and all the other "content" stuff.

[Reiss]

Sweet stuff!  The green team is pretty underpowered, but you definitely know that...

Really like this so far, has a nice mood and feel to it. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

Suggestions:
Needs a simple attack bounce or something.
Visible health bar next to each unit? or alternatively the ability to select any unit to see how healthy they are.
And obviously stuff like arrows and magic and all the other "content" stuff.

Yup, agree with this -- and for a "health bar" that keeps in line with your minimal style, you could try messing with the sprites' alpha values?  More transparent = more damaged.