LIBERATION! An Exosquad Game

JeanApple

Greetings!

My name is Jean Marciniak, newbie developer, and huge fan of the old 90's TV Series 'Exosquad'. Since I first saw the show I dreamt of making an Exosquad game. Its been whirling in my mind for over two decades, I've started dozens of times transplanting the design that's in my mind to paper, but the moment I hit the programming aspect it shuts me down immediately. To fight this I took a programming course last year where I learned the basics of programming, variables, arrays, IF statements, while loops, etc. and it helped ALOT! (So thankful for community college where the class sizes are small and the professors are more dedicated and caring than Universities.). The language we worked with was Java in the IDE Greenfoot, hands up if you used that IDE before. Im reintroducing myself to Java since its been almost a year, most of it I recognize and understand, however I have writers block and need your help LOL.

Im watching a Godot tutorial video to get used to the IDE and scripting language.

ABOUT The Game: - OPEN SOURCE. Totally Free to download and play when done.
- Top Down 2D Space Strategy Game - Hex Based - Command one fleet, that can be split into multiple fleets the user can control - Special Physics: Planets move around the map based on their revolutionary cycle Check out the UI I attached with this post

The first thing I did is create a new project, add in image assets, and create a background. I did my first work on the project by adding in the background (Screenshot attached). Next up I want to add in a HEX based field and start working in the physics engine of having the planets move, how would you recommend I go about this?

Lastly a BIG SHOUT OUT to the devs who made and continuously work on this engine / IDE, you guys are amazing! Im going to contribute to your fund.

Also thank you to you for helping me with this project.

Megalomaniak

Your post isn't very clear, do you want the planets to move within this hex grid or what? If not, why mention them? The more clear and concise your question the better and more concise help you will likely find. Granularize your problems if you can. :)

For implementing a hex grid here's a good resource though you'll have to keep in mind it's covering js and not gdscript:

https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

JeanApple

Thanks for the feedback.

Yes I want the planets to move within the HEX Grid. I want them to revolve around the center of the map. My apologies for not being more clear.

JeanApple

Also what am I doing wrong here, I copied code from the tutorial section of the website. I believe I need to connect that to the Sprite ExoFleet but don't know how. I think that's why I'm getting that failed build message

Megalomaniak

Your node Line2D doesn't yet exist in the scene when the script is trying to hide that node and thus it gives you the null instance error.

JeanApple

Thanks

The build worked but when I left click nothing happens, how do I do a left click have that fleet icon sprite move to the location of the click?

Megalomaniak

Well, in abstract terms I'd instance a plain node 2D and set it's location by ray-casting the mouse location to the canvas. then use a tween to animate/move the "spaceship" nodes location value.

In your case you want this to happen as a turn based thing, so after placing the node 2D for the target location you might want to create a path between the ship node and target node to figure out what grid path your ship will take to move there.