Hello World! This is my first post about a so called project ‘Realm Tactics’ game. Concept: I absolutely loved the game ‘Advanced Wars’ back on the Game Boy advanced. So much so that when finally getting round to making something myself, it is a natural choice of game styles.
The Vision:
Create a game/engine where creating new maps, units, buildings and everything else is just config and can be done by anyone – ultimately I want users to actually make the entertaining things and I (an engineer) can focus solely on the engine. Some may call that lazy but I’m happy to play to my skills.
Nitty Gritty:
As my love of the game style was ultimately born on a GameBoy, a hand-held console, this will hopefully materialise as an Android (and hopefully Iphone) app. Definitely not bounded by that but playing on the toilet is definitely how I imagine people will be using my creation (as glamorous as that sounds!)
The basic gameplay would involve moving things around a square grid – usually themed as some sort of battle where you have to outmaneuver and defeat your opponent but I don’t necessarily want to be constrained by that. That is a very loose description and engineering constrains will require the first iterations to be much more locked in. I will create a set of functions that each entity can perform I.e movement, attack, building, capturing etc and using that some interesting game types can be put together. These will all be packed up with different graphical components and hopefully some interesting story lines. All of this is very vague at the moment but this will be an ongoing development project.
The How:
I don’t know yet how ‘technical’ I am going to get in this blog but thought I would get things started. I have recently picked up using Unity and am relatively comfortable with that environment (at least for nothing too flashy). This will be coded in C# as I do love a bit of well structured object oriented programming. As an ex-java developer I am happy to get stuck in with the code so not worried on that side. I have never done graphics before so, as mentioned earlier, it would be great to eventually (I mean in the far and distance future) to get things more community created.
Help Wanted:
This currently is a solo project but I would love to work with someone – especially for people with all the skills that I currently don’t have as unfortunately that is quite a bit. If anyone has a passion and would love to get stuck into programming, artwork, sound, storytelling, level design, publicising…. and everything else under the sun then feel free to get in contact!