[ian-reeds-games] New member, my very first map
- From: Søren Jensen <slj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:48:55 +0200
Hi all.
I’ve just reasonly subscribed to this mailinglist. I don’t know who’s here yet,
but you might know me as SLJ on the Audiogames forum or from other places.
I have known about Tactical battle for very long time, but just reasonly
realized how many possibilities there are when creating maps. So a few weeks
ago, I spent some time to check it out, and realized how easy it is to create
your own maps. I got so much surprised to see how creative maps we can make,
and to see how many possibilities there are.
I have dreamed about making games for many years, tried to learn some
programming language, but always given up and got impationed. :) But Tactical
Battle seemed to be pretty easy to learn, so I was very motivated to give it a
try.
I started to create something pretty small, and was really motivated to learn
and keep working. I had so many ideas I would see if I could make into a map.
There was a lot of things I couldn’t get to work, so I looked in examples,
trying to understand how others have made simular features. I asked on the
Audiogames forum for some basic newbie stuff, got some very nice replies,
checked out more examples to fully understand how things works and kept
building on my map.
I haven’t get used to how all the features of the map creation works yet, but
I’ve got used to a lot so far.
Now, my first beta version is ready. This is just a very early beta, where most
of the sounds are missing and there are known bugs. I must say I’m pretty proud
of myself that I’ve made it so far. It might seem as nothing for you who have
made many maps before, but for me who have tried to learn programming for so
long time and have dreamed about releasing something for very long time, it
feels so great to finally be able to make something from scratch, knowing that
only your own ideas are your limits and not that you are unable to code. :)
My map is made out from the getting started maps, and then I’ve cleaned up a
bit, removed the things I don’t use in my map. Then I started to make my own
things. This is the reason for you’ll see some things from the getting started
map which is not used in mine.
It would be really nice if you would give this beta version a try, and tell me
what you think. As much feedback as possible would be great, and it would be
great to hear how you like it, and if you think it’s something I should
continue to work on.
I haven’t wrote the documentation for the map yet, so here is the information
to get you started:
The story:
It’s war in your country. The war has come to your town, and soldiers has
reached your house.
A family is trapped in their house, one person is locked in each room. The
soldiers have stolen the keys to the house and locked the doors.
There is the following family members:
Tom: The dad. A strong man who have a very powerful attacks and have lots of HP.
Molly: The mother.
James: the son
Lilly: A three year old girl who’s too young to attack. She have more turns
than the others, and she’s ment to run around and deal out medkits which heals
the other players.
Skils:
There are both attack skills, a kicking skill and a weapon which can be picked
up and used. the skills do random amount of damage to make attacking more
interesting.
strategies:
I’ve tried my best to build the map so people can use many different strategies
to beat the game. I think I’ll let the player figure out most of the
possibilities on the own and not mention those in the documentation. One tip
I’ll give though is that every furniture in the house can be used as
protection, but keep in mind that they can get destroyed.
Known bugs:
The only bug I’ve found so far is the attack skils which have two tiles in
range also works through the walls. I’m not sure on how to fix this.
You can get the map here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9791433/Protect%20the%20house.zip
Oh by the way, I’ve made my map in the latest official release of Tactical
battle, not the developer version. I haven’t tested if the developer version
works with my map, and I’m not sure on how to update my map so it’ll work.
I look very much forward to hear your feedback, both good and bad.
Have an awesome weekend.
Best regards Søren.
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