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[happymonster]

Finally.. I've come up with a name for the game that I like!

Welcome to SpaceHero Command!

I hope it sums up the feel of the game, and gives an indication of the style of gameplay.

Also, a new addition - the Zog have brought along with them a product of twisted genius. By combining unholy new technology with Zog engineering they have created a cold bleak man of metal.. A robot! Strong, slow, but accurate with aiming, the Robot is a mighty foe! It's only real weaknesses are to Laser and Electrical weapons.

[moshboy]

That art style is awesome.

[:^)]

It seriously is, dude.

I wanna mess with the colors though

[sabajt]

looking really good - i love these types of games.

would you mind sharing what tech you're using on the programming side and what devices you are planning to ship for?  shame on me if that's already in the thread but if so i missed it.

[♒ben]

You're style is fan- fucking -tastic, can't wait to see more cute aliens

[Franklin's Ghost]

Yeah you're devlog is awesome, love hearing your approach and thought process and love seeing your art 

[happymonster]

Thanks for all the nice comments! 

Let me know what colour changes you'd recommend, I'm open to suggestions.

On the technical side, it's programmed in C++ with a very cross-platform engine that a friend of mine uses for his games. To be honest I haven't got as far as thinking about what other platforms to create this for besides the PC. I'm just having fun developing the game.

[happymonster]

What can you see?

The first version of line of sight checks for revealing the map is now done. This is very rough as it just treats all tile as completely solid or empty. What I will do next is to add collision tiles for the objects / walls as in X-Com and Laser Squad. Then I can use those to make a much better and finer line of sight check for more accurate map revealing, enemy spotting and weapon fire.

Still.. taking shape!

[happymonster]

Unlike the graphics, the collision tiles will always be the same size regardless of resolution. This is so you get the same collision results whatever the display settings. I'll start doing some collision tiles today and see how well it works with the line of sight checks.

[08--n7.r6-79.84]

  wooooooooow! i love your STYLE!!

[happymonster]

Testing out new collision tiles are working ok.. It all looks a bit like the scanner image in Laser-Squad (which is not too surprising as I think those gfx were used directly in the aiming/firing section of the game)

[happymonster]

Fixed a few broken collision tiles and did a quick test with a distance tile lighting addition. It looks a bit more like X-Com and less like Laser Squad now. It's certainly a different feel, but I'm not sure I like it too much.. 

[Yodhe]

Some ambient lighting, and some softer shading I think will make it look better. I guess it depends on how you want to do the lighting.
I guess it depends on the scenarios of the game, where it is exploring unknown territory, or whether you would have plans of the area beforehand. It that is the case you could have a cartographical representation of the map, which gets revealed as you travel through the map, maybe with a few hidden rooms or surprises where the data isn't entirely accurate.

Anyway as always looking good, and groovy. Keep up with the great work.

[happymonster]

I think that I will try a more of a fade to black at the edges of a Unit's sight effect and see how that looks instead. You are right about ambient lighting, there isn't any at the moment. Although part of me likes the normal 100% lighting view.

[eigenbom]

I'm not sure I like what you've got there, and I don't think blurring will make it any better. I actually prefer the earlier screenshots, and don't think a game of this mood needs necessarily needs lighting (though you can still hide the things the player can't see...)

[Scut Fabulous]

Have the lighting as a user-option!  I think it looks cool, but giving players the option to switch off or alter features is a mark of quality in my opinion.

Your lighting system could come in handy for making tactical overlays or environmental effects as well.

[happymonster]

I agree actually. What I have now is that most of your view is at normal illumination while the furthest tiles you can view fade out to black. I think it looks better and more in the style I want. I will have options to disable this anyway.

[laxwolf]

I understand character-oriented lighting in a dungeon crawler roguelike but it really isn't necessary for your environment. It really doesn't compliment the setting or style either.

[:^)]

Yeah, personally, if you left the option up to me (which you say you will. Har har) I'd just turn off all lighting effects.
It breaks the visuals apart to much for me.

Is the point of the black to make sure the player can't see what's around the corner, or to inform the player that the selected unit can't see around the corner?
If it's the latter maybe flat black wouldn't be best. Maybe a translucent shade of black?

I dunno bro.

[SolarLune]

I think I agree with peanutbuttershoes. It's a cool effect, but I think that since you're going for more of a 'fog-of-war' type of effect (aren't you?) it would be better to go with a transparent black rather than full black.