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Anonymous05/11/25, 08:02No.2032893/asd/ - Amateur Strategy Development thread
An awful thread for devs and no-devs to post their awful ideas for strategy games that will never see the light of day, etc.
previous thread:
>>1909726
I don't know why or how, but last thread bump limit, so here is the sequel.
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Anon05/11/25, 08:16No.2032899
> to post their awful ideas
Browser game:
At the top of the page you have a map with selectable tiles.
Under the map you have a thread / chat where you can RP your diplomacy and roll dice.
You can pick any tile and convert it to your color at any moment.
Once your "country" wins, you can request a game feature / mechanic that I will implement. Like risk threads occasionally evolved to have random stuff like nukes / forts / ships, the game will change to reflect whatever RP happens in the chat.
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Anon05/11/25, 08:28No.2032904
Don't have anything screenshot worthy. But managed to build an event system that can queue up multiple events to process, and a heavily data-driven system for player schemes and events that can be extended through editing JSON (similar to how Paradox games work) instead of having to hardcode everything. Now I'm trying to add 'features' to my POIs and I'm having a dog of a time deciding how to implement them nicely. Also, making a half-decent UI is suffering. I wish I had an artist to offload the visual design to.
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Anon05/11/25, 11:27No.2032990
I keep on deving.
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Anon05/12/25, 11:02No.2034231
As mentioned in another thread.
I actually want attempt making a 2d rts with EVE online elements (market simulation, pilots being spies/pricks etc).
Focusing on the aiplayers/bots.
At the moment I'm simply just trying to get "mining ships" to go to and from asteroids to a trade station, next step I guess is to make map of systems that are linked and then I'll have to figure out how to ensure the aiplayers can figure out they need to go to xyz system via abc pathing.
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Anon05/13/25, 02:57No.2034951
Ultimate Arm Chair General
Similar feel as TropicoYou play as a general in an RTS campaign similar to how the old C&C games are. You're fighting a globe spanning war and you're on the losing side. Defeat is imminent. However, you have a chance to "liberate" a lot of the country's material wealth for yourself, broker backroom deals with other commanders, or even set yourself up to become the next ruler of the country after the previous administration is deposed when the war is finally lost.The goal is to use diplomacy to paint your setbacks and losses in such a way to make you look better and pin any other failures on other generals. Losing the war is inevitable; all you can do is attempt to gently glide down instead of crash land. Bettering your position is at odds with actually winning battles, so if you want to start setting yourself up for a postwar life, you'd better get really good at deflecting your failures on someone else.There's several endings to the game based on how you do. You can acquire and sell off a lot of your country's stockpiles to the highest bidder on the black market, padding your bank account as a retirement fund after you desert. You can cut a deal with the invading forces to give them intel and collaborate, hoping that they'll set you up as leader when everything is over. Maybe you decide you just want to take down the people on your side who instigated the war in the first place. There's even a secret ending where you actually do your job and manage to actually turn the war around, but the government you serve takes credit for everything you did and you stay an unknown and poorly paid general whose role in the war was downplayed by your own people.The entire game gives conflicting objectives that set you up for failure and you have to figure out how to twist the narrative to make things not seem so bad, or choose between taking care of yourself or sacrificing for your country who doesn't really care about you.
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Anon05/13/25, 13:05No.2035251
ravenfield + roblox game called "entrenched"
but instead of ww1 trench warfare, it's pre modern sieges like the siege of constantinople etc with active ragdoll AIs, destructible fortifications for breaching the walls, destructible terrain for the miners to dug a tunnel below the walls or dugging a ditch for defense against enemy's sally, naval battle and blockade, customizeable siege engines and ladders to scale the walls
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Anon05/14/25, 02:04No.2035974
i know how to code AND how to draw, what bothers me the most is that I still havent found an idea i would really want to make, ngmi
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Anon05/18/25, 22:11No.2040947
It sure is quiet around here.
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Anon05/19/25, 04:29No.2041173
For me it's completely FOSS clone of Warcraft 3, you know like ROTP for moo1
https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors.
The problem? I can't draw or code, so yeah m a no dev
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Anon05/19/25, 13:23No.2041500
>making RTS with firing lanes (not out of historical autism, just to avoid the deathball effect)
>give units a mortar-style alternate firing mode, so they can lob shit (with really poor accuracy) over fortifications
>units in the back identify first firing line as obstacles, activate mortar mode
>deathball but now it's mostly ignoring cover on top of it
... don't know how I didn't foresee this.
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Anon05/19/25, 23:58No.2042007
Finally got the first dynamism in the game. If there's an infestation of creatures they'll gradually build up and reproduce as they kill people in the town. That raises the danger level which in turn will eventually cause the ruler to step up patrols. Less diligent and compassionate rulers will take longer to act, causing the infestation to build up more before action is taken. The patrols suppress the creatures and kill some but not all of them, once the danger level is back down, the patrols will eventually go away, leaving the creatures able to build back up again. Quite happy with the more dynamic cycle this creates in the absence of external factors.
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Anon05/20/25, 10:43No.2042489
I want to make a game that's in the vein of 80-90s toy ad cartoons with good guys vs bad guys factions at war and made mostly of unique units that can't be replaced if they die, but I don't know if I should make it old x-com like or more like an SRPG style battle system or what. I do want to have nobody units on both sides but games run this problem of unit groups feeling less cool than individuals, i.e. 1 dragon is cool, a unit of 100 dragons is just a battle statistic. Ideally, other than the leaders, each unit could grow into their own individual depending on how you built them, but I feel like that would make them less unique due to player optimization instead of individual heroes.It would basically be a set of scenarios you could choose from where each side had to achieve some goal like harvest energon from 5 different sites or take control of some ancient artifact and perform/stop a ritual or generic stuff like that. Due to the focus on unique characters, battles would be able to result in injuries and retreat instead of one side usually being wiped.
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Anon05/22/25, 07:59No.2044673
Never tween in or fade in clickable UI elements. You can tween or fade them out if you want (but try to make it very fast), provided they cease to be hit tested immediately, and any elements which are going to occupy their space switch to occupying that space underneath them immediately. But if a new element is showing up or entering a clickable state, it should appear instantly and be clickable instantly.
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Anon05/22/25, 10:09No.2044731
Made a bootleg Illidan.
It was mainly to test grafting entities to each other (the aura onto the unit) but the biggest hurdle turned to get the AI to pick the correct ability. Not sure but I managed to hit every single possible bug and edge-case on a simple "just pick the first thing on the list that is in-range and not on cooldown".
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Anon05/23/25, 03:16No.2045630
Was working on my hero AI when I realised my implementation of 'Creatures' was a little wonky and too vague to work with the system I'm making. Now the scheme places a broodmother entity that will periodically birth broodlings, adding a broodling feature that will do much the same thing as the generic 'Creatures'. Patrols can kill them off and actually clear the broodlings as a feature on their own, but the broodmother will continue to produce more until a hero goes in and kills her. I'd like to do more with this, like maybe the broodlings bring her back food and that boosts her reproductive abilities, and/or makes her more dangerous to heroes trying to find and kill her. But I probably shouldn't get any more sidetracked.
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Anon05/25/25, 11:04No.2048021
I'm getting closer to my goal
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Anon05/26/25, 03:41No.2048935
Got my heroes doing stuff with a basic AI framework. They'll deal with threatening entities and POI features they can perceive, taking their own HP into account and spending time recovering if needed. And they can get into basic combat with the broodmother when they track her down, which they'll almost always win (although taking a lot of damage in the process). This is something else I'd like to expand on, with hero investigations into things like the Broodmother being more long-term with twists and turns the player can interfere with at the risk of losing their agent if discovered.
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Anon05/27/25, 20:08No.2050926
Huh, didn't notice this thread before. Tell me, did Gouda dev ever deliver after that year long thread?
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Anon05/28/25, 08:46No.2051448
this is CTRL+U
pretty much just a techdemo for the billions of npcs procgen at this point.
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Anon05/28/25, 13:24No.2051659
The easy part is done, the game is functionally complete.
You can draw a map, you can conquer the land.
All I need to do now is to find players.I also need to fix trivial technical issues like the lack of re-connection once WebSocket is closed.
And of course, if this thing takes off I'll have to implement whatever game mechanical requests I get.
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Anon05/31/25, 02:10No.2054561
I have this autistic idea: "Road manager"
>player manages roads for a fantasy kingdom
>king gives player budget and the player has to use that money to build/maintain roads and bridges
>put on toll booths
>send people to patrol roads so they travellers don't get robbed
>if player fails to protect travellers, the people will complain and the king might reduce the budget
>patrol officers can be bribed my smugglers and if smugglers get caught later, player might face corruption charges
>occasionally, goblins start raiding certain area, and player has to hire knights to exterminate them
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Anon06/01/25, 24:21No.2055517
Are there any good video series focusing on the programming/putting all the functions together part of it? Using Unity
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Anon06/04/25, 06:10No.2058528
A modern day mod like GPS5 but with good war system (like HOI4 but updated to modern era) and centred in economics, with POPs and Stellaris-like character system.
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Anon06/06/25, 22:25No.2060765
i know nobody's gonna play any game i dev so i might as well make myself comfortable. gonna be programming on msdos (djgpp on gcc 12.2) because why the fuck not nobody's gonna care anyway. wish me luck
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Anon06/11/25, 16:05No.2065002
Asking for feedback on my game if some anon are caring about it.
https://bluesanddev.itch.io/galduen
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Anon06/11/25, 16:55No.2065028
Working on my Hitler RPG. Party Menu is a work in progress. I am to eventually simulate everything possible.
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Anon06/12/25, 22:33No.2066134
got an aspie idea for a space combat sim
>engagement distances in the hundreds of thousands of kilometers
>your ship can't go faster than light except for warp, which requires extensive charging that drains from shields/weapons
>you can only see enemies when light from their ships hit you, they're actually a few seconds ahead in actuality and you have to aim for their future position
>subspace signatures can show their energy levels in real time and vague location but has an error too great for targeting anything
>your beam weapons can only travel at light speed, so you gotta lead
>once you see enemy charge their weapons, you're already fucked because that means they fired at you and you'll be hit before they're done charging (cause relativity)
>shields are dogshit that can withstand one or two beams, but not much else
>you can use torpedoes that travel FTL but they're limited and are instantly seen because timespace bs that allow for countermeasures
basically nebulous but FTL relativistic speed weapons and relativistic engagement distances. Ships flying 0.25C or 0.5C that you gotta figure how to aim while you can't see their real position because light speed is light speed
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Anon06/15/25, 06:20No.2067704
Any tips for designing rules for mass combat? Abstract (not a tactical map) but I'd like something more complex and interesting than simple paradox combat or something.
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Anon06/20/25, 22:28No.2072753
I have this about resource management.
>player assigns their underlings resources
>their performance is based on 50% RNG and 50% on skill
>but their skill stats are hidden
>The amount of resources assigned determines potential reward
So, the goal is to find skilled underlings by trial and error.
My only problem is that this isn't much of a game; it's just random guessing.
I guess a potential solution would be to break resources into less specific resources, like manpower, time allocation, etc. That would impact the outcome.
But I don't know, wouldn't the core gameplay still be just blind guessing?
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Anon06/22/25, 13:27No.2074197
I'd like someone to develop a game that plays like Mount and Blade but with more focus on developing styles of battle. Some sort of Army Chief of Staff management sim where you recruit, promote, and set tactics for an army in a kingdom and try to paint the map one color. Each soldier has a few basic personality traits that dictate how they fight and you can promote any soldier you want. You only watch battles in an overhead angle and can zoom in to pick out soldiers you want to reward or punish afterwards. Winning battles grants influence which can be used to expand army capacity, encourage technological advancement, and push for war against neighboring kingdoms. I'd like it to lean heavily into medieval themes and include courts, estates, religion, and cultural differences to create a distinct starting point for each kingdom.
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Anon06/23/25, 17:22No.2075374
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Eho3-5m6UReleased a small update on my game today, showcasing the population tab (piecharts, population ledger, regional edicts)It's a Victoria 2-like, but with regional pricing for goods, transit costs, embargoes and proper protectionism; among other additions like military logistics
Setting is 1700-1815
