Game Idea: Real Time Strategy

[angeladik]

I am back. I never ended thinking about an RTS contest idea, so here it is in details:

* supposed to be a team challenge - bot may be too hard to be made by one person,
* not real RTS - I would say it is Step Time Strategy - similar to ants,
* 1 turn would be made of move order and action order, like move 1 hex further and attack an enemy,
* played on hex map,
* 3 resources - food, wood and iron
* winning condition - killing every enemy unit and every building / killing every worker and base building if got amount of units advantage

Neutral objects:
- basic land hex
- tree - source of wood, needs to be cut down by workers
- tree - ready to be gathered by workers
- water - impassable terrain
- fish - source of food - gathered by workers
- deer - source of food, needs to be killed by workers
- meat - source of food, dead deer, gathered by workers
- iron - last resource gathered by workers

Structures:
- house - increases population limit
- farm - source of food, grown by workers, worker can stand on it
- mill - workers can store resources here
- stables - you can hire cavalry here
- archery range - you can hire archers here
- barracks - you can hire knights here
- base - you can hire workers here, workers store resources here

Units:
- worker - gathers resources and builds structures, 1 hex/move, cost - food, gathers 1 unit of resource/action, able to carry max 10 units of resource of one kind, can't carry fish and wood for example, can't carry fish/meat/wheat combinations, drops (destroys) carried resource if starts to gather something different
- knight - durable melee combat unit, 1 hex/move, cost - food and iron
- cavalry - swift melee combat unit, 2 hexes/move, cost - food and iron
- archer - fragile long range combat unit, 1 hex/move, cost - food and wood
- edges describe units origin, green for neutral

Example map:
- how it is supposed to look like

That would be all for now. I encourage you to discuss this idea.

Adrian

[angeladik]

About 100 people have seen this post already, but still no response. Come on, now we have time to discuss, before contest will be organized Everyone is welcome. Everyone.

[angeladik]

Over 600 viewers and only 6 replies Is this forum dead?

[Ali Akbar]

[lorill]

[keithroe]

I wonder if someone on the dev team could start looking into transferring ownership of the AI Challenge to a new group. I understand that some of the principal team members are not available/responding/whatever. If they dont have the time or interest, I think that this enthusiastic community should be able to wrangle a team to head up the project.

This competition is enjoyed by 1000s of participants and there is nothing even close to it elsewhere on the net. It would be a shame to see it die (as it now seems to be doing).

[angeladik]

I understand you keithroe and lorill and encourage you to talk about it in "Can we change ownership of the AI Challenge " topic. Let's end talk about it and proceed to talk about my idea Please, tell me what can be biggest problem, what weaknesses this idea has?

[keithroe]

This looks really promising. Is it based on a particular pre-existing game?

[angeladik]

I was inspired mainly by Age of Empires series (farms, mill as a 2nd storehouse) but the basic idea is: gather different resources, produce army, fight, like most of RTS games This may be simplified even more - no population limit, less resources, base as a spawn for all units. I didn't suggest that, because I want a challenge Of course this is just an idea and can be transformed further into satisfying version

[angeladik]

@Ali Akbar
I am glad that you take part in this chat. I didn't implement these things because of two reasons:
* idea isn't finished yet, there are many things to be done, I didn't share all my ideas with you so far
* I don't know how hard it is to make such a game, I don't want to make it too complicated. On the other hand, this could be a Team AI Challenge, we can increase difficulty I need to find someone who is familiar with this subject, maybe Ants programmer?

As I mentioned earlier, I was inspired by Age of Empires series. Moreover, most of your ideas were implemented there

I spent few last days thinking about combat in this Turn Based Strategy Game. I hope I will post some results (propositions?) today, in few hours All of you, keep writing about what you think. This is the only thing we've got for now ^^

Adrian

P.S. Idea of Tower Defense may be another good one. Maybe make a topic about it?