DOS Games Discussion

2LT Worm · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject: War Machine WIP

This little game I've been working on has been an idea in my head for the past 4 years now.

Previously started as somewhat of an inside joke as "The Great Gamehippoian Civil War," many mock-ups were produced. I even made a soundtrack to go along with it.

Well, as I was a college student the past four years, I really never had too much time to devote to learning a new programming language. However, a couple years back, someone clued me onto the SDL API; it used C++ as its based, and since I had taken a computer programming class in high school, it was a bit easier to pick this up.

However, after trying to produce a Sonic game (and beating my head against the wall), I kind of gave up on it.
Look here: http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8755 (dated 22 November 2006 lol)

But now, since I'm unemployed and chillin' back home, I decided to pick it up again.

So, allow me to introduce "War Machine."
It's a turn-based military tactics game.
I'm using Famicom Wars (the NES version of Advance Wars) as my base, and while I'm not trying to simply make a clone, I want to mimic this game and make improvements and changes later.

It's not much to look at right now, but I got it to compile, which is a victory in itself.
Right now, it displays the title screen and plays the theme. If you click, the screen will transition, and display the test map. This map is generated by blitting a chipset, so I'm not cheating by drawing the map in Paint and displaying it. (Not that the map is much to look at)

Main screen:

The test map:

A little movie

Larry Laffer · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:47 pm Post subject:

Nice!

Is the video supposed to be sans sound? Or did I break something?

Also, with my eye I spy a misalignment of the bottom-center road turn tiles.

And no Advance Wars clone worth its salt should ever go without CO and their powers(not that it matters this early in the release life cycle, just sayin')

2LT Worm · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:45 pm Post subject:

Larry Laffer · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:51 am Post subject:

Cool tunes! Are they original? Or did you take them from other games? 'Cause I find Western Campaign to be rather familiar...

2LT Worm · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:31 am Post subject:

dosraider · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:53 am Post subject:

Looks promising .......
Happy

Larry Laffer · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject:

2LT Worm · Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:19 pm Post subject:

New video
Basically, this new video shows cursor action, which actually took some time to code (getting the application to give me the coordinates of the mouse on the window took a couple of hours. sigh)!

You can't see it, but I've also start programing the game's logic. So hopefully within the next couple of releases, you can click on a grid square, and information will pop up on the screen.

Also, I'm planning on getting rid of these side bars. I decided that I didn't like 'em. Laughing

If you have a Mac, try it out and tell me if it works okay.
http://gamehipporedux.com/warmachine/downloads/warmachine0.0.6.zip

EDIT:
If you DO NOT have the SDL_image, SDL_ttf, SDL_mixer, Ogg, and Vorbis frameworks in your ~/Library/Frameworks, you need to download this version:
http://gamehipporedux.com/warmachine/downloads/warmachine0.0.6b.zip

2LT Worm · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:23 pm Post subject:

BUMP

Here are some copies of the program. There's not much here...I'm mostly seeing if they work on other computers!!
Barring any problems found in the testing, I should be ready to proceed to ver. 0.1.0!

You'll notice some differences from this product and the screens above (unless of course, you've been reading the dev blog...)

Ver. 0.0.9 Mac

Ver. 0.0.9 Windows

Please let me know if it works for you or not!
Happy

dosraider · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:52 pm Post subject:

It works.
Congrats.

OMG IT'S ALIVE !!!!!!

.... But not much to do yet ingame, isn't it....?

Hint hint: shouldn't you make the playfield a bit bigger?

2LT Worm · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:02 pm Post subject:

dosraider · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:52 am Post subject:

Not the tiles bigger but moar tiles .... it's now 14x14, that's seems a bit restricted IMO.

Larry Laffer · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:34 am Post subject:

Works fine on my XP SP2.

But... always the nitpicker: Shouldn't the menu that activates when you click on your ~~worm~~ general deactivate when you click on anything else? Cause currently it stays there 'till you click it again.

Edit: Disregard that: reading the blog, I found it it's a feature, not a bug. Tbbbbbth!

dosraider · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:18 am Post subject:

Tested on:
XP sp3
Vista sp2
All OK.

2LT Worm · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:52 am Post subject: