Online dungeon tactics

fire7side

Working on this online game. I have astar working, and one character with animations. A few other characters are in various stages of modeling. I also can select a tile with the mouse.

fire7side

I'm kind of new to Godot, but my plan is to have all players in their own subscene with an attached script to the spatial parent which will mainly provide animations and properties like health to the main scene. The rooms will just be the same floor with things in different places like obstacles, chests, and different doors may be on each wall. So this one scene will be used for the entire game. No saves. The player either makes it to the final chamber and does the requirement or dies on the way. A chest in each room may provide a skill upgrade to keep it interesting. I might make a map of rooms that have been explored. Menus will be on the right and the left. Left for player, right for enemy stats when the mouse goes over a tile it is on.

fire7side

I added a monster, and have a simple turn based system where each time the mouse is clicked, the character who's turn it is walks to that tile.

MANDREWS

Awesome start. Since you got the game Ai down looks to be all gravy from here. Look forward to seeing your progress.

fire7side

@MANDREWS said: Awesome start. Since you got the game Ai down looks to be all gravy from here. Look forward to seeing your progress.

Thanks. Yeah, the basic structure is there but lots of things to add, like possible moves according to action points, menus for attack types, etc. Having fun with it. Really like Godot.

fire7side

I've added possible moves now. They won't get used that often because most of time a player will just click on a monster and he will either go as far as he can to get to it, or if in range, go to it and attack. The ranged weapons will always be able to attack if there is line of sight. The next thing is the attack menus on the left and the monster stats on the right.

ChimaereJade

Sounds cool and I think the later finish with the inbuild lighting-options will make it look amazing. Can't wait to see the first walls, decorations and maybe some fluids like water or lava. Do you plan to give the rooms different themes? I know - feature-creep comes fast and silent. :D

Another thing which would interest me is, if you plan to use heights for the mapping and battlesystem, adding effects like a bigger range for bows or something when you are on top of stairs.

fire7side

@ChimaereJade Thanks. Well, it's an online game so a lot of the things on downloadable games won't get in the final product. They are kind of stripped down games. Some of those things will be added. The whole idea is to keep the size for an online. Plus, I'm not really ready for too large of a game. Mainly, it's providing a fun short experience. There won't even be a game save, you get as far as you can or complete the mission and get a score. I like heights in strategy games also, but probably won't use them here. Mostly there will be obstacles to use line of sight in the game strategy. If the character can't see it, there won't be a tile choice. If the monster can't see the character, he won't be targeted unless there are no other characters left or something.
I am going to add spell effects for the wizard and hopefully scrolling injury texts and as many small things as possible because it adds to the experience. Probably torches, things like that. Sound effects. I might consider water or lava because it's mainly a shader, so it won't cost much. Thanks for the suggestions.

fire7side

So, this is the start of the attack menu. I have floating hit points after the attack button is pressed in the main scene. There will be health bars under each icon. Graphics will probably change. I'm focused on getting something to work right now. The higher hit point attacks will probably grey out for a turn or two so there is more management. This is the simplest character. The other two will be ranged fighters.

fire7side

I added health bars and level numbers to the characters. There's still wiring to do before I can do any kind of mock battle, but it's getting closer. I downloaded Betrayal at Krondor to get some inspiration since the battles are similar.

fire7side

@jbrooks79 My focus is on how the game works right now. Getting the battles to work. I haven't even included a ranged character yet so there is a lot of work on that line. The looks come last, other than placeholder art. It will all be low poly, though, so it loads fast because it's an online game. I'll spend more time on the characters, but they won't have fingers, etc. Probably not even faces, at least for the working models. I'll probably do high poly icons. Yeah, I'm looking forward to those things when I get farther along. Of course, it's an online game, so I can only go so far with it. It's got to load fast and do the job. I will be making a map of the explored regions that fills in as the player moves through the basically imaginary rooms. It will just be one room with different obstacles and things in it, actually. The inventory will just be automatically added to the button choices for spells and arrows for the archer. I do plan on having large monsters that have a separate astar map of 4 regular tiles, so that will make it more interesting also. The story will be about 4 lines at the start of the game, more of a mission statement. There won't even be game saves, you either die or make it through. Depending on how this works out, I may do slightly more open world games that are generated as the player moves through them and still keep it as an online game, but right now, this is it. Otherwise I won't finish it. I only have so much patience with games. This is sort of a ground work game because I like turn based tactical games. Then again, I might do something different after. Hard to say.

fire7side

So, I finally can do a short battle between two monsters. It turned out to be way more complicated than what I thought. I ended up using coroutines and long decision trees to get what I wanted. And it's only for melee attacks currently, and still has some bugs to work out. Still working on it, though.

fire7side

@jbrooks79 said: Looks amazing, now there's real strategy, every decision matters <3

Yeah, and there's still so much to add to it like different weapons, obstructions, plus the other two character which will be an archer and a wizard.