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[increpare]

multiplayer turn-based strategy game.  Not sure exactly how it'll turn out (need to do lots of testing), but the basic idea is that you have normal units and then rockets that you can launch to attack a location, but it attacks the location two turns ago.

problems:
    

• paradox - i've made it that a missile silo can't target itself, so there's no grandfather paradox, but there is one possible that sounds like:
          a attacks b
          c attacks a before a has attacked b
          b attacks c before c has attacked a
     in the game right now this is only possible if two of a b and c are owned by the same player, so it's a bit unlikely, but still I'm not sure how to deal with it.
  edit: If I extend the 'cannot target self' with 'cannot target any unit of the same side' then this won't happen.  I think I'll go with that. scratch that, it doesn't work nicely.
  
• not sure how I feel about the graphics at all (the interface in particular, but also the colours and general style)

to do list:
   sort out paradoxes
   balance game
   ai
   network play
   sound/music
   lots of small things

[Aquin]

We're all looking forward to playing this tomorrow! 

(seriously though, how the heck do you make good games so damn fast?? ENVY  )

[Melly]

cactus was his master, in a trip of enlightment in the himalayan mountains.

[ChevyRay]

Excellent, good to see you joining in the fray. Looking forward to seeing what you make, Stephen!

[increpare]

Updated the first post:



multiplayer turn-based strategy game.  Not sure exactly how it'll turn out (need to do lots of testing), but the basic idea is that you have normal units and then rockets that you can launch to attack a location, but it attacks the location two turns ago.

problems:
    

• paradox - i've made it that a missile silo can't target itself, so there's no grandfather paradox, but there is one possible that sounds like:
          a attacks b
          c attacks a before a has attacked b
          b attacks c before c has attacked a
     in the game right now this is only possible if two of a b and c are owned by the same player, so it's a bit unlikely, but still I'm not sure how to deal with it.
  edit: If I extend the 'cannot target self' with 'cannot target any unit of the same side' then this won't happen.  I think I'll go with that. scratch that, it doesn't work nicely.
  
• not sure how I feel about the graphics at all (the interface in particular, but also the colours and general style)

to do list:
   sort out paradoxes
   balance game
   ai
   network play
   sound/music
   lots of small things

[Melly]

Man that sounds intriguing. I see lots of time experimentation around here.

[Ivan]

Good show, Stephen. I can't wait to play this.

[increpare]

Have all the basic mechanics I thought of originally in.  it doesn't quite work yet (flash).  HMMM.  Will need to think more about it tomorrow.

[Maikel_Ortega]

It's pretty weird, but very interesting. Cannons seems to deploy after a few turns isn't it? And maybe you can make something to SEND units to the future, so they wont be attacked on the past, or something like that. I dunno, it's hard to think about this kind of "pastrategy" game 

[increpare]

It's pretty weird, but very interesting. Cannons seems to deploy after a few turns isn't it?

yeah

future/delayed missiles might work, but would ... erm ... yeah I'm having trouble thinking about it as well.  Two-way time-travel would complicate things even more - I'm trying to keep the time travel stuff comprehensible to me at least.

[Maikel_Ortega]

Ok, I've played it a little more and NOW I get it completely. The thing I suggested was nonsense lol.

But I have LOTS of non-sense suggestions :D
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Every player has ONE chronobomb. When they launch it, timetravelmissiles won't be operative until next turn of the player who launched it.

Different units :medic, chronobubbler (deploys a bubble that shield units inside against future missiles), chronoartillery(can move, he can shoots weaker missiles to the past).
Player can choose their units, spending points, before battle.

Units HP?

All this would change the game a lot, and probably its gameplay won't suit your idea. But brainstorm it's brainstorm