Real-Time Strategy Gamemode in development! Most Recent Release: 5/18

[lordician]

I will probably need volunteers for the public testing since if there is one thing I learned from my videogame school: its that you play test early and often to ensure a good game.

That is a good lesson you learned from that and i do completely agree.
It's okay that it got a little pushed from your original date, i still look forward to the results.

[Ad Bot]

[Ladios]

Just letting you guys know I haven't abandoned the project, I just have no idea what I'm doing
Not really, its just been busy with moving but now that things are more stable I should a a working release soon yay. Though don't expect too much, it will be more of a proof of concept and will likely be buggy.

[QuantumEagle]

If you're really into the whole create-a-big-backstory thing then you can come up with some quick story of the material and pick up a name somewhere there

i.e. Tiberium from the Command & Conquer series is named so because a meteorite that seeded the first Tiberium crystals on Earth crashed near the river Tiber in Italy.

[Ladios]

That's nifty. I mainly am just asking so the community feels more involved.

I have a history of being crabby.

[tber123]

I would love to see a RTS in blockland.

[Ladios]

So I've been wasting a lot of time on bots when I realised JM making this too exclusionary. There are already semi decent bots in holes and its such an open mod its easy to tack things on

 My new motto is to go with the hole.

[jarelash]

So, uh how exactly do you need help with names? Im pretty good at coming up with names for futuristic units, both alien and human.

[Buu]

I'll model for this, sounds real fun and interesting.

If you have a list of current units planned, pm it. even if they don't have a pic I'll try to design one, staying in style of course.

[Buu]

Uhh, I was expecting more activity after my post :c

well anyway i quickly modeled this

sorry about the toon shader, opacity wouldn't work for the rest.

Do you want it's to hands to float or have actual limbs?

[Ladios]

Wow lookinggreat!
Floating would probably be easier to animate and match the blockland theme better. The tube arms were mainly tomake it more look like some robo exoskeleton thing.

Varients of that model to include different backpacks or skin colors would likely be sufficient enough for the purposes of the game especially initially. My first release will likely have the same models for everything while Iam getting things worked out.

Also this mod is changing quite a bit. While the alien invasion will be the default release Iam switching over to make this more rts centric. This means there will be plugin support for additional units building resources maps and pretty much everything as long as the reference flags are compatible. Also having associated rulesets would allow for creators  of these plugins to easily distinguish what type of game it is meant to work with (no laserws on medival servers etc.)

When you start the server into gamemode_rts the ad?in will be able to change rulesets and mapss and such easlily which should allow for dedicated rts servers with varying themes (and easieer custom map support)

Posted from phone so sorry if Idont make sense. And as faras the frequency of my posting that will likely not change soon as Isill have to be at work to use internet (though of coursee when I'm at work I'm ususally too busy working to make a post)

Btw Ineed a list of names for a random name generator for both humans and aliens if anyone  was bored and wanted to list cuh. Just makesure to use smallprint and not spam this thread too badly

[Buu]

I knew you'll come back :D i'll work on it asap.

[SgtDaemon]

got some names for ya

I can make more if you want

[J MASTER]

I hope this does well. \m/

[Ladios]

April 1st is my current deadline to have a very lame very buggy version of the gamemode.zip for you guys to start testing

If I fail to reach this deadline someone should smack me.

[Buu]

Gahh i've been lazy, sorry bout that, I'll remake the model to make it look more fitting to blockland.