Line of Sight!

Fruits of my labor from last night. Fog of War! Light green are areas visible to the player. The blue square is a factory, the red square is a soldier unit. The pink squares are enemy units at the limits of the factory's vision.

Menu, Movement Rules and Fog of War

Today we added a permanent menu bar to the bottom of the screen where the user can issue units orders, end the turn and is presented with gameplay data (props to Gary, the menu is great). We then implemented movement rules that stop the player from moving any distance they want. We also made it so that the transparent box that shows where the unit will be moved to is not displayed anywhere it would not be possible for the unit to move. We then moved on to implement the Fog of War effect so that the player cannot see anywhere on the map that it would not be possible for their units to move to on the next turn. Unfortunately the game crashes before it ever displays anything on the screen, but I'm sure this will be resolved quickly next week and we'll have some sweet screenshots to show off. Until then...

Framework up and running!!

So we now have a basic framework established. A player can move red blocks around the map and create more red blocks with the blue block. I'm excited... Check the pics

END OF DAY UPDATE: You can now attack and kill other soldiers and buildings...balla!!!

Maybe we are onto something here??

http://www.quarterdown.com/Editorials/Can-the-iPad-Save-RTS-Gaming/

Makes a few good points about how generic RTSs have become and how control schemes based on touch could revive the genre.

What this blog is about

Hello, this is one of the team members for Washington College's 2010 Summer Research Internship (Otto Borden) in Computer Science. This blog is meant to be a journal of sorts in which the fours members (Me [Otto], Cory, Gary and Dr. Ramsey) can keep a "diary", if you will, of what we are doing here and keep a record of our progress. As of now (5/25/2010) we are beginning the basics of an Turn-Based Strategy game in which a player must capture all of the cities on a map to win. We are literally are on day one of this project and will keep those who are interested updated from this point.