tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38195057196475097462024-03-05T00:41:42.310-08:00Clash of Command Developer BlogJeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809379135730332263noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819505719647509746.post-35302373666158917712017-03-08T13:56:00.000-08:002017-03-08T13:56:30.375-08:00Bad News/Good NewsHi again Everyone,<br />
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So you've probably noticed the radio silence we've been under for the last few months. There are quite a few reasons for this, most of which are related to the bad news for Clash of Command that I am going to share today. There is some good news that I'll be sharing as well, so make sure to read the entire post.<br />
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Over the past 8 months or so, Ranger and myself put together a small team of talented individuals for the purpose of building a prototype for Clash of Command, with the express purpose of shopping that prototype out to strategy/war-gaming publishers. The size and scope of a full fledged version of Clash of Command makes having a publishing partner that would be willing to put up the development seed money (small by game development standards, but large by our own pocketbook standards) a necessity. It took our small team of 5 approximately 8 months to put just the prototype together, and our own estimates of the time needed to fully complete the game clock in at around 12 more months of development time. We did have several discussions with various strategy game publishers, however we were not able to reach a publishing agreement at this time. Which means that Clash of Command development is currently being placed on hold.<br />
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Please note that a project on hold does not mean that it is canceled. We are extremely proud of the work that we've completed on the Clash of Command prototype and we do plan to eventually roll it out (even if its just to the current C63 community), however there is quite a bit of work necessary before that can happen. Also please note that C63 will continue to be supported for the foreseeable future. As long as there are C63 subscribers we will continue to operate the game servers.<br />
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Now for the good news. We here at Mutant Entertainment Studios are excited to announce we have begun production on a new game. This new title will be officially announced within a month or so (hopefully sooner). It will be of much smaller scope and we plan on self publishing, which means that unless things go horribly wrong, the game will be released within the next 6 months or so. I can't really go into specifics just yet, but I can tell you that our internal playtests on the new game have been very successful, and we are excited to share it with you once we iron out a few minor issues. The new title will have its own development blog which I will share here, once we make the official announcement.<br />
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Thank you to all of the Clash of Command and C63 community for your generous support and loyalty.<br />
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<br />Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809379135730332263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819505719647509746.post-71701828175258695462016-11-21T12:39:00.000-08:002016-11-21T12:39:00.571-08:00Alpha version 0.1 Change Log<span style="background-color: white;">So we've been busy, which is why there has been a lack of updates here. We think we've got a stable Alpha version 0.1 ready. Which is what we'll be testing internally today. If that goes well we should start recruiting for closed alpha testers soon. Ill post here once we're happy with the 0.1 version. In the meantime here is our last change log for any curious as to what we're up to:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First pop up is ugly</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Add buttons</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Better spacing</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineer Unit is broken (unlimited mvt, time slider not moving)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Orders Info box lets ray casts through (can mouse over units and get info)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALL Audio DOWN at start</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set to 10%</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unit paths are not visible when zoomed out</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Needs some design decisions </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mouse moves map while changing audio settings</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anything we don’t want to have move the camera needs an intractable ui element behind it as well, even if it’s invisible</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Towns need to be below fog</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fog not blocking enemy unit hovers (even though enemy units not drawn)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tooltip move off elements</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Post turn not updating all units correctly (weirdness with Post turn state on when units get updated) - UPDATE - bug with planning phase button</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Going to need a sanity check</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time slider ending at 12:12?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Camera not following ghost unit (unit you’re planning orders for)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Try a dev hack - has both - get feedback from clarke</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If all units have orders and player says “no” to submit, the game keeps prompting user to submit every time an order is edited</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Audio misspelling - Ambient</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ToolTip size in worldspace</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Combat audio clips too long</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bridges not in</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barrage not in</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Final facing highlight should always be on top of other highlights</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Impassibles not obvious</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hide enemy actual numbers</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edit unit button - focus on end of planned path, not units original position</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arrow keys move time and map</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remove arrow keys from time slider</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Artillery different rate of movement?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Need clarification from Clarke re: Movement</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Login - not obvious its focused on input box</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As always, Thanks for checking in!</span></span></div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809379135730332263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819505719647509746.post-65144063900992614302016-10-10T15:23:00.000-07:002016-10-10T15:23:49.258-07:00Time SliderHey Everyone,<br />
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So today I'm going over the Time Slider feature for Clash of Command and the new Review and Planning phases of the game which are directly related.<br />
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The function of the Time Slider is two fold. First, (in Review Phase) it allows players to see the results of their previous turn. So when you launch the game now you will get the see what actually happened to your units over the previous turn.<br />
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This gif shows the new hex based system in a Duel (1v1) game. The blue units are the USA, the red are CSA and this is the view of the USA player. I think current C63 players will appreciate just how much this will change gameplay. Cavalry will become much more valuable in their traditional role of intelligence gathering.<br />
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Well, back to the grindstone for me. We're hard at work here grinding towards our closed Alpha Test, which were happy to report that were pretty darn close to reaching.<br />
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JeffJeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809379135730332263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819505719647509746.post-86918435942760895902016-09-14T12:15:00.000-07:002016-09-14T12:15:38.647-07:00What we're up toHey Everyone,<br />
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Very busy with development, but I realized we had forgotten to update you all for a while, so this will be a relatively short post. Im just going to give a quick snapshot of what we're all working on.<br />
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I've been busy creating and implementing a few different pieces of the User Interface. The first is the new Tool Tip system. It functions pretty much how you would expect. When you hover the mouse over key game elements you receive a short message about what it is and how it works. The second is temporary audio assets. We have a few pieces of music that will loop, several different sound effects for clicking on units that will randomly be selected (that way its not the same sfx played over and over), and a few sfx for combats that are also randomly selected. Ive also implemented a Spline system that will draw unit paths in both the planning and review phases. With those items taken care of I've moved into setting up the web side interface for our Closed Alpha test, and re-engineering the quick turn manager with Ranger. For those that don't know, the quick turn manager will allow games to be run as soon as all players have submitted their orders. So if everyone turns their orders in within, say, 10 minutes then the game will automatically run and everyone can play the next turn.<br />
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Ranger recently finished the Fog of War feature for the backend, fixed several minor engine bugs and has moved on to the quick turn manager.<br />
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Steven has been a whirlwind of feature programming, and has completed a ton of in game features. We have a new unit selected indicator, Fog of War is now hex based and is displaying in the UI, the UI itself has new assets that all have new functionality, and there is a new "unit selected off screen" arrow indicator that will point you back to the location of the unit you currently have selected.<br />
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Nick has gone through about 500 different iterations of the User Interface assets. Most of which are new icons for units, orders, planning and review phase icons, dispatch icons, time slider, mini map, chat window... basically many different versions of all the stuff you'll see in game.<br />
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Justin has been busy finishing the map terrain, and modeling and rigging the units. There isn't as much in his list mostly because both of those items take a huge amount of time, since we want everything in game to look really really great.<br />
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Anyway thats what we've all been working on. Thanks for checking in!<br />
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Jeff and the rest of the Mutant TeamJeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809379135730332263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819505719647509746.post-33179648110073276862016-08-17T10:27:00.000-07:002016-08-17T10:27:52.471-07:00Fog of WarHey Everyone,<br />
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So todays dev blog is a short intro to the new Fog of War system we're currently working on.<br />
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As most of the C63 players know the old fog of war system was based around maps. If you had a single unit end its turn within a map, then you were given detailed information on friendly and enemy unit positions. Not a very realistic situation, and honestly not something we were too happy with. Our original design featured a hex based fog of war system however, due to the nature of our old slow development times (remember, we used to be a 2 man, part-time dev team) certain features were forced to be cut. So this was a compromise solution for us. Something that kind of worked, but would take us much less time to complete. And it did work, from a gameplay standpoint, in that it forced players to think strategically about how to scout. However it failed to match the general spirit of historical accuracy that was one of C63's design pillars. Which is why we decided to spend the extra development time on the new fog of war system for Clash of Command.<br />
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The new system that is currently in the pipeline matches our original vision. Each unit will generate its own "field of view" of hexes within the game board. And as crazily as this sounds we looked up the math from a NASA article about the distance a mounted officer is approximately able to see (though we used the simpler trig based algorithm) and then made a few rough approximations to come up with our new fog of war system:<br />
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A unit in open terrain (for those that weren't C63 players, we have a few different terrain types: Open, Broken (aka hills), Woods, Town, and City) with nothing blocking their vision would see in a 3 hex radius. Other terrains may block vision (Broken, Woods, City). And certain terrains offer a height advantage that allow units to see even farther. Broken terrain results in a 6 hex radius, City terrain results in a 5 hex radius, and Town results in a 4 hex radius. We think this new element will add some strategic tension to the game and will greatly impact the role of Cavalry in their traditional role of scout.<br />
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The fog of war system is still a work in progress at this point. Ranger is currently bug testing it on the Engine side and Steven and I are just now able to start parsing the data, so I don't have anything to display graphically on this one, just yet. In the meantime Ill share some screen captures that Steven made of our last internal playtest.<br />
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<br />Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809379135730332263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819505719647509746.post-74555130864366259642016-08-01T11:42:00.003-07:002016-08-01T11:42:56.976-07:00Internal PlaytestingHey everyone,<br />
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So this post is going to be short, but right now that's actually a good thing.<br />
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Last Friday we had our first internal playtesting session. There were a few major bugs, but the core gameplay and turn processing system is up and running. The programming team (Ranger, Steven and myself) have been hammering both of those systems out over the last few weeks and will be bug hunting and adding in the last few core features next week, while Justin and Nick have been working on art assets. Justin is working on the map and should be putting the finishing touches on the roads and railroads this week. Nick has been hard at work on the iterating the 2D user interface design and we think we've finally started to dial in the UI into something that is both highly functional and intuitive.<br />
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Anyway, thanks for checking in. Now its back to work for me...<br />
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JeffJeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809379135730332263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819505719647509746.post-67809552974673637302016-07-18T11:53:00.000-07:002016-07-18T11:53:10.899-07:00Progress Update<span id="docs-internal-guid-0fecee03-ff30-1b6e-15e0-0e5973474787"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi! I’m Steven, one of the programmers here at Mutant. We’ve gotten quite a bit of work done in the last few weeks, and I want to show you guys how it has been going. Keep in mind a lot of our stuff is very much so a WIP. The UI that I’m going to be showing off was done by Nick, and the environment was done by Justin, who is currently reworking the textures and has done a lot of neat things to help the performance of the game. Today I’ll be showing off some of what I’ve been working on, mainly the reworked planning phase, and a sneak peek at our new review phase. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Next I'll show off some of our unit selection, and how planning a unit would normally go. To plan a unit, you click on them, choose an order, and the hexes they can move to are highlighted. Right now, green hexes are hexes you can move to, red hexes are hexes you "can" move to, but would need to force march to, and if a hex is not lit you cannot move there at all. Once you reach your destination, you can choose to view final facings (purple) and then select a final facing. you can also easily step backwards while planning an order, or destroy an order altogether. If you look at the time slider at the bottom of the screen, you can also see it move forward as you plan moves (the text is not currently being updated, but soon!), so you can easily match up multiple units moving to a location and arriving at the same time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And lastly we have the time slider and review phase. The review phase of the game will allow you to scrub a time slider (think of video player media controls) and review what happened during your last turn. Right now we are only updating unit information, but soon we'll be adding things like battle markers to show a battle as well as give you information about each battle when it happened. With the review phase, you can also view the path that a unit took throughout the course of its turn. In this video, I am playing the battle, using the mouse to drag the slider, and then using keybinds (+ and -) to move through the slider frame by frame, in case your want to find a really important part of a battle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We've been making pretty great progress the last few weeks, and we hope you guys are excited as we are! We'll be keeping your posted every week or so on how things are going. If you have any questions or comments feel free to comment in the comment section below!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In early 2006 I was a freshly minted computer science graduate with dreams of starting my own video game studio. A few semesters prior I had helped a lead a student run project that ended up turning into a simulated studio course (which continues today). Before graduating I was lucky enough to be invited by my professor, and soon to be business partner Clarke Steinback, along with a fellow student to help form a game studio. Our first planned product was to be a re-worked version of a proprietary play-by-mail game that was developed by Clarke many years prior. The plan was to keep the company light, nimble, lean and to focus on niche under-represented titles and markets. Part of which meant I would continue to work at a major wholesale/retail warehouse while developing the initial product “The Campaign of 1863” (C63). There were plenty of ups and downs over the following seven years with many valuable lessons learned. I hope this postmortem helps any others toiling away in part time development purgatory. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Job Change.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> So the flip side to the positives of being able to move to temporary full-time development mode was the loss of my health benefits I enjoyed previously. If it was just me on my own without health coverage I would have been less concerned but I also have a family to support and going without health coverage for a wife and two young children was, quite frankly, scary. Im not the only indie developer to go without, so Im sure there are others out there who can relate to the constant worry of a health problem when you have no insurance. After going without for sometime and being unable to afford the astronomical cost of private insurance it made sense for me to start looking for a solution. Fortunately for me my business partner Clarke, again came up with a solution. All the time we were working on growing our business he was also working on growing the APCG program at CSUChico. In fact it had grown so much that he was in essence working a double load by administering the program and continuing to teach. His solution was to have me apply for the part-time teaching pool at CSUChico. I was hired a short time later and became eligible for health benefits about six months later. This slowed development of the project again, however the short period of time that I was able to do full-time development had resulted in the almost completion of the UI and web interface. Also I have to add that I really do enjoy teaching. The students in the APCG program are great and I really enjoy their enthusiasm for the industry. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Loss of a business partner.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This is one of the major regrets of my entire game dev experience to date. We initially launched our little micro studio with myself, Clarke and another recent fellow computer science/APCG alumnus and friend. Things initially went very well, with all three of us splitting the workload on a part-time basis as best we could. Life, however, started to disrupt our established work patterns and methods. Our third partner got married and we noticed a dip in her work productivity. We decided not to mention it and to hope that as she settled into life with her husband things would shift back to normal. Unfortunately that was a mistake on our part. In retrospect if we had addressed the problem at the time we probably could have avoided what ended up being a messy separation of her from the company. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Complex Rules/Interface.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The initial paper design of C63 was made as an homage to the old SPI and Avalon Hill boardgames. Anyone who’s played those games knows how complex the rule systems are. We knew that modern gamers would never have the patience to read through a long complicated manual, so we attempted to obfuscate as much of the rule system as possible. In some ways our approach worked. New players aren’t required to read a huge manual to get started. And players don’t have to use look up tables or know intricate and complex rules to play. However this has lead to some areas of confusion for our players, the main issue being a time/distance hex based asynchronous game. The initial basic design for C63 is that of a team based WEGO system. So all players plan orders for their units to follow, then at a predetermined day/time everyones orders are gathered together and processed simultaneously. While we like our system and feel it’s unique, we failed to impart to the players that when they submit their orders for their units they are submitting a plan. And while they are moving units around on the game board the units are not moving in real time or even in a manner that they are used to like an IGOUGO system. The other stumbling block for our players has been our abstraction of the concept of units moving in time to Movement Points (MPs). In C63 different types of units have different amounts of MPs. So an Infantry unit has 3 MPs while Cavalry has 5 MPs. Players become confused when they try and rendezvous units at a hex but if it takes an Infantry 2 MPs to get to that hex and a Cavalry 4 MPs to get to the same hex our players tend to forget that they don’t arrive at the same time. And timing in a strategic game like ours, can make all the difference. We do have plans to address these issues, but that’s a different blog post (hint: we’ve got big plans for our little studio, so stay tuned)</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So here's to you, fellow part time developers. I hope this helps in some way, even it its just as a small word of encouragement. Enjoy a tasty beverage and keep on working. You will make it eventually!</span>Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809379135730332263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819505719647509746.post-40735694227586031382016-06-27T14:56:00.000-07:002016-06-27T14:56:31.552-07:00Going Pro<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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