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[Gregg Williams]

Cheers, life is still very hellish right now, so updates/progress is sadly still slow. (Story of 2014)

Still been working on movement interface. This is about final I believe, minus a few animations like the cross hovering, and lit arrow cycling in.

[lai-studioguts]

WAH! Love tactical games. And you said it will be multiplayer?! Amaze. 

[Gregg Williams]

WAH! Love tactical games. And you said it will be multiplayer?! Amaze. 

Yep, despite perhaps wiser wisdom, I just can't bring myself to make an SP only tactics/strategy game. I like playing against actual intelligent opponents, not eventually just learning how to exploit AI weaknesses and no longer having any challenge. (Which while fun in its own right, starts to be more like a puzzle game IMO.)

[Gregg Williams]

Pretty happy with this, yet working in backwards movement is being of course painful.

[karlozalb]

sorry for my ignorance but I really don't understand how that little GUI works 

[Gregg Williams]

Nah its my bad, for showing a very partial gif. I'll try an post a full system one, or a vid link later today.

[karlozalb]

Nah its my bad, for showing a very partial gif. I'll try an post a full system one, or a vid link later today.

That would be great! 

[Gregg Williams]

There is some smoothing out to do with rotation bits on the client still (Kinda dumb unit rotates back to old facing when hit GO, then rotates, but thats a quick fix.), but this should generally show what is going on.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/eVh8cKPQrCA?vq=hd720;

Basically your able to plot multiple waypoints for pathfinding (giving you explicit control over paths) as well as control final facing direction, or just do facing changes without moving. 

[jctwood]

So what do the light blue squares represent? A vision cone?

[Gregg Williams]

So what do the light blue squares represent? A vision cone?

The available movement tile destinations from your current position/waypoint, and with your remaining AP.

[jctwood]

Ah okay that makes a lot of sense, thanks!

[Christian Knudsen]

Do both players input their movement commands and then have them execute at the same time? I'm not sure I understand the need for being able to input "waypoints" like this instead of just clicking to move somewhere and having the game show you how many AP that will cost?

[Gregg Williams]

Do both players input their movement commands and then have them execute at the same time? I'm not sure I understand the need for being able to input "waypoints" like this instead of just clicking to move somewhere and having the game show you how many AP that will cost?

No, MINT is traditional IGOUGO, the waypoint system is all about fine control options and ease of use. The majority of the time you can just click where you want to go, click an end facing if you want a different facing at the end of movement, and hit go. The path that will be traveled is shown as the green tiles, and all is good. Until you decide you don't like the path generated... Perhaps because the automatically generated path is going to move you through enemy overwatch fire for instance (*cough new X-Com*) or over tiles you think mines might be planted in, or through an alleyway that would be a nasty ambush point, etc.

At this point you can choose to just do multiple moves bit by bit to go the actual way you want to, or you can just click the first destination, than the second, etc to create the path you wish to travel along, and then finally hit go and be done with it. Thats what multiple waypoints are about, they let you sculpt the actual path you travel if you don't like something.

If things like overwatch and so forth that can trigger during your turn/movement didn't exist than there would be no problem.

I hope that makes sense.

[Christian Knudsen]

Ah, okay. So it's optional. Cool.

[Gregg Williams]

So just to drop an update, August was pure chaos, and my mother finally passed early September. M.I.N.T dev has been put on hold until start of 2015 which will also find me moving to Seattle early Jan/Feb. Kawe and myself are hoping to have a great 2015 with dev, sadly 2014 was just a really bad year for both of us, and not a lot got done.

[rj]

that's a shame =<

sorry about your mother,
game looks wonderful,
and good luck in 2015

<3

[Belimoth]

Fuck, that interface is so good.

[Conker534]

good luck with everything man
sorry about your mother

[marvinhawkins]

Condolences man. Best of luck to you.

[Gregg Williams]

Sorry guys, after a lot of discussion, both M.I.N.T and Retromite are being shutdown, at least for the foreseeable future. Well unless someone wants to give us a few hundred thousand dollars.