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[Franklin's Ghost]

Surprised to see myself as a player too but very happy about it. Like my team

Game is coming along really nicely and plays as I'd expected which is nice. Like the amount of detail you've already gone into with just 10% and great to have a chance to try it out after following it from the start.

2. Allow for camera movement with W, A, S, and D rather than the arrow keys.

This makes sense but think also keep the arrow keys as is, cause I'm left handed and find them easier to use with the trackpad.

Great job and thanks again for the honour

[happymonster]

Wow! Thanks guys, I wake up and there are a lot of good comments and feedback.

With the names, I wanted to say thank you for all the support and encouragement. 

Ashkin: You can still shoot and kill enemies you can't see (like in real life I guess). But the Zog should have been visible, so I guess there are still some line of sight issues to work on.

Spooner: I need to think about the walls a bit, especially to do with line of sight. The Rosette is supposed to change colour on individual sections. It's not clear if you've not read the posts I made about it. The colour indicates the action state if you turn to that direction, i.e. red = can't shoot, orange = can shoot, etc.. Good points about the mouse.

Joshua: Yep, tool tips will be in.

Eigenbom: Moving the view in a reversed direction (i.e. google maps style) will be an option. Yeah, not completely sure about the cursor under the compass markers either, but it's too obscuring on the top.

Solarlune: Sorry to hear you killed yourself.. Good suggestions on the right-clicking and WASD keys, I can certainly add those as well as the arrow keys.

Birdof, Franklins Ghost: Thanks!

[happymonster]

I've already added support for WASD keys to scroll, and a reversed camera option, for now you press C ingame to toggle between the two camera movement types.

These changes will be incorporated into the next released version.

[Oddball]

Dammit! You would release a playable whilst I have no access to a computer. I'm glad you're making progress, and it's looking good.

[DustyDrake]

I've been reading this devlog since I woke up this morning, and I realized something:
I had more fun designing graphics when they weren't realistic.

Thank you.

[Paul Jeffries]

Great to see a playable version of this.  I love how smooth and intuitive the UI is.  Everything kinda fell apart when I got to the human's turn 2, however:

-The first guy I moved turned invisible when walking and then stayed invisible.
-The second guy had his movement zone coloured completely red
-The next guy was OK, but stopped after a few steps and a '1 alien seen' message popped up, even though it didn't look like he should be able to see any aliens.
-Next guy turned invisible as well
-Next guy had a totally red movement zone as well

Then, the next turn, the two guys who had gone invisible stayed invisible and I couldn't select them.  Nobody else could walk into their squares, however, so it looks like the game still knew they were there.

Not sure what I did to provoke these bugs - I wasn't doing anything particularly weird, I don't think.

[happymonster]

Paul: Thanks for explaining what happened. Clearly you ran into some major bug, so I'll have to try to find out what went wrong.

[Moczan]

Plays great, the biggest flaw is that it's still just and alpha  I ran into small bug while scrolling, I could see an ally that is further away (shouldn't be on screen) show on the edge. It went away when I scrolled back and couldn't really reproduce it :/

[Alec S.]

Haven't checked in on this thread in a while, glad to see it's coming along so well.

The demo is looking really nice.  The way the highlighted spaces spread out from the character looks really smooth.

-I felt the camera moved a bit too slowly for my tastes.  It would probably be good to have an option for that.

-Friendly fire is a big problem.  When one of the humans spotted one of the aliens, he promptly shot his ally who was in between them in the back of the head.

-I also had some problems with a character disappearing

-Having the "spotted" text come up each time I move rather than when that character is first spotted gets a bit annoying

-The origin point of the cursor seems off.  In order to select a direction, the mouse has to be slightly off the arrow I'm trying to select.

Anyway, this is coming along nicely and is looking very impressive.  Looking forward to future updates.

[happymonster]

Cheers, there is still a bit to tweak and fix with the GUI..

[Paul Jeffries]

I tried playing a couple more times to see if I could trigger the disappearing humans bug again and figure out what was causing it, but it all seemed to be working fine this time around.  So, good news: it looks like that bug I found is pretty infrequent.  Bad news: it looks like that bug I found is pretty infrequent.

One other much more minor bug I found: Having eliminated all of the humans I was moving the aliens around the map on the next turn just to see if I could and when I moved one into a corridor with three human corpses it popped up the '3 enemies' warning message as if they were still alive.

[happymonster]

Thanks Paul, you're all giving me useful information to track down and fix the bugs.

[DrDerekDoctors]

I've already added support for WASD keys to scroll, and a reversed camera option, for now you press C ingame to toggle between the two camera movement types.

These changes will be incorporated into the next released version.

Any chance you're gonna' add middle-mouse-button scroll? And by "Any chance you're gonna' add" I mean "I DEMAND YOU ADD".

[happymonster]

I might as well, are you going to do work on Phantom Island in return?

[DrDerekDoctors]

Haha! Already am. I got some zombies in there following the player a bit but I wanna' make them way more awesome by splitting them into legs/head/torso and having damage on each section alter their behaviour. Once that's done, I'll make a video. And now, back to your thread...

[happymonster]

Well, I've added in middle mouse scrolling to my build (not uploaded). I've also fixed a bug where if one of your hero's was over the body of a dead hero then it looked like the dead hero was still alive in the unit icon colours.

I can't reproduce the vanishing units or glitches at the edge of the screen yet though..

[happymonster]

Bah! I can't make the humans vanish as of yet.. if it happens again, could someone please post a screenshot or something to give me a clue!

[bartholomew]

can't help with the other stuff but here is a screenshot of the glitches on the edge of the screen: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84528920/spacehero_command_glitch.png.
You should be able to reproduce it if you scroll left and right with the arrowkeys.

[happymonster]

Thanks for that! What is your desktop resolution? If you open up the logfile (logfile.html) the game makes can you tell me what the screen area it's using is?

This may be related to different screen sizes, that's why I'm asking.

[Franklin's Ghost]

Been testing some more and had this situation occur where the humans could spot see two zogs but when I changed to zogs and changed there directions the humans didn't become visible.