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Anonymous01/16/26, 10:58No.2322499/asd/ - Amateur Strategy Development

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: >>2032893 >Useful resources for making games Free icons: https://game-icons.net/ Free HQ textures: https://ambientcg.com/ Kanban for organization: https://www.kanbanthing.com/ 3D modelling program: https://www.blender.org/ Pixel art editor: https://www.aseprite.org/ Image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ Vector editor: https://inkscape.org/ Map editor: https://qgis.org/ Game engine: https://godotengine.org/ Music composer: https://onlinesequencer.net/ SFX generator: https://elevenlabs.io/

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Anon01/16/26, 12:14No.2322522

With ChatGPT it is effortless to create the game of your dreams now.I am using Grok AI for the image generation and ChatGPT for the code and I have made more progress than ten years of solo dev times.ChatGPT is a genius level multi-Phd Einstein at your command. If you do not use it... you are a fool.

Anon01/17/26, 05:03No.2322950

It has taken me years of experimentation and reflection to consolidate my vision for the type of game I want to develop. And the previous /asd/ thread helped me to ground things, hopefully these threads can help to other anons as well. Another thing that helped was writing and documenting ideas in a game doc. Either way, I'm proclaiming my intentions here, so after 200 days, people can mock me for not having anything to show. My game will be called: Apparent Potentate If everything goes as planned, it will be a character-based strategy set in an original fantasy setting (with no magic). I'd intend it to be something like 20% CK, 30% M&B, 25% IMP, 20% ROTK, 5% Sengoku Rance Focus will be on the character system and the simulation of generational evolution, and not on military conquest. A lot of the game will rely on appeasing the nobles, and my biggest challenge will be making that aspect fun. The player's goal in this game will be to fulfill their character's dreams. Which might or might not be fun, the point is that is that character's personality will serve as a sort of thematic mission system.

Anon01/17/26, 14:58No.2323134

This will be the year

Anon01/18/26, 16:59No.2323744

if you're gona use ai, don't be tasteless: learn to use stable diffusion or the like

Anon01/18/26, 17:02No.2323746

the pendulum is swinging away from ai novelty in my humble opinion. whatever is 'handmade'. however crappy, is still readily identifiable

Anon01/18/26, 17:17No.2323766

that said, i feel like i need a UNIVERSITY COURSE to use inkscape properly. send prayers

Anon01/18/26, 23:34No.2324078

I have begun work on my 'dream project'. Something I've wanted to play for a long time, but doesn't really exist or what does doesn't scratch it.It's intended to be "Fantasy XCOM Enemy Unknown". With some inspiration from Chaos Gate, Warcraft 1/2 and a lot of autism. You have a roster of mighty Heroes from across the realms, gathered to fight some imminent great threat that is prophesised but not yet known. Sending out parties of Heroes to deal with threats, and investigating to see if they're linked to the big bad prophecy. The meat of the game should be the combat so I'm working through that first. Trying to get a basic demo of the combat systems done to playtest a bit, and get feedback. Better to do any radical reworks now, and having a strong idea of how I want most of it to work will inform how I design campaign mechanics if I get there.Presently, units are implemented in a basic state. Initiative works, units can be selected and perform basic actions. The most basic mechanics for attacking are in. But I still need to adjust how they work, add a lot more information to the UI, and setup a super basic AI for the enemy side before I could call the bare prototype playable.

Anon01/19/26, 09:41No.2324255

Do you sometimes have moments where you wish you had an ideas guy at hand? Being my own ideas guy is hard. I have even started using ChatGPT for brainstorming purposes.

Anon01/19/26, 19:17No.2324612

I'm using Godot, and every resource I find online explains how to make units using the engines built in physics, while in the same breath saying you should never use physics for more than 100 units since it will not perform. What is the correct way to implement ~1000 2d units?

Anon01/22/26, 08:57No.2326074

What do people actually want from RTS campaigns? Story? Puzzles? Huge bases? Huge babes? What about commando style missions with a limited force and no building?

Anon01/22/26, 14:21No.2326161

The same unit combo should not be the optimal solution to every mission. This is partially game balance and design, but also mission design. The game should encourage me to use different units as they're introduced and different combos. Also never, and I mean NEVER EVER. Ever. Introduce a unit and make it bad for the mission. A unit introduction is a time to show how it shines and encourage the player to use it. Never ever should the mission it's introduced in be filled with it's counter and make it practically worthless to build.

Anon01/24/26, 16:24No.2327538

I've been busy, but have done a bit of work. Although honestly most of it has been rewriting some old functions to work a lot cleaner, and to be able to easily add elements that work like I want. It's a learning process.But I think, at least for a prototype, pretty much all the backend is in and now I just need to bring information into the UI so it's more clear what is going on.

Anon01/26/26, 10:02No.2328474

Making a turn-based space 4X. Province management is the most developed part right now. It's quite complex, individual goods have different qualities. So the quality and price of the cloth is dependent on the quality of the cotton and the quality of the machinery you used to build the mill, along with whether the pop is a weaver or master weaver. Is this too complicated for people?Making the AI good at this is also kind of difficult, I'm finding that there's a single meta of 'get rich making high-quality goods and exporting' and it goes against the principle of different AIs having different gameplay styles. Or would nobody really notice, it'll need to cheat anyway to keep up with players?Also, how do people feel about a wargame minigame for planetary land battles, editing division templates like HOI4 but the formation actually matters, you move them around on the map like in panzer general or something? Will people just autoresolve?

Anon01/28/26, 00:34No.2329393

Any ideas on how to make terrain work for my space wargame? I have asteroids to take the place of forests, but other than that I can't think of anything. Do you think people would find lack of terrain boring?

Anon01/31/26, 17:45No.2331628

I'm months away from starting to work on the character system, but I guess it doesn't hurt to brainstorm this early. The working idea is that every character will have a personality axis, a value between -100 and 100. Player's character values will be visible, but everyone else's will be hidden. These values will influence AI behavior and will encourage different playing styles. They can also change over time.First axis is: >Cowardice vs Bravery Measure how willing the character is to risk their life. A cowardly commander might abandon their army during a battle if it looks like they are about to lose. >Prudence vs Boldness A character willing to take risks. Prudent characters will play it safe and be more passive. >Egoism vs Altruism The measure of how character values others. >Carefreeness vs Responsibility A carefree character will make friends more easily, while a responsible character focus in self-improving.

Anon02/04/26, 05:47No.2333516

I was thinking about changing the percentage of damage done if you aren't facing toward the enemy fully. Do you think this would be too much micro? I like flanking mechanics so I'm not sure what other people think of this.

Anon02/04/26, 23:38No.2334048

https://thetruesize.com This site is blowing my mind I never knew about map projection before and how it affects world scale

Anon02/08/26, 18:22No.2336838

Man i am not looking forward to writing the code for ai, I hope it won't be as bad as I think it will. That seems to always be the deciding factor in whether a single player strategy game is fun or not.

Anon02/12/26, 23:46No.2341344

I can't even put into words the concept of my game, because every time I try, it sounds so lame.

Anon02/13/26, 01:34No.2341385

With Menace and Mewgenics having such a huge amount of players I wonder if more people will be fans of turn based tactics. Im feeling hopeful.

Anon02/22/26, 18:09No.2349002

I was going to use square tiles for my tactics space wargame because Advance Wars uses them but I they don't really attack from long distances in that game. I wonder if hex tiles would be better since artillery units in my game will be shooting quite a few tiles (4-8)

Anon02/25/26, 03:11No.2350893

I thought UI would be easy and I'd bash this shit out in a day but it kept taking forever and then I'd procrastinate for like a week, so it took a month. But some basic as fuck UI elements are in so the prototype is actually readable.Next step is implementing an AI, and then I may have gotten somewhere.

Anon02/26/26, 16:24No.2351940

So I wanted a 'mobility tier' system for my game so that more agile units and more armoured units interact with terrain differently, not just having more movement. I was gonna work on this later, but I realised it'd just be easiest to work in now when I was doing the ranges for abilities.When checking distance the mobility rating is one of: >Teleport Ignores everything >Flight Ignores everything except walls >Hover Ignores everything except walls and height >Agile Adjusts the 'difficulty' of terrain by 1 step down. >Normal Normal >Slow Adjusts the 'difficulty' of terrain by 1 step up. And doubles any height >Immobile Can't moveTerrain difficulty is: >0 Does nothing >1 Applies it's penalty dependent on the tile. An open floor tile might have no penalties at all. Some tiles will have more movement cost, some might apply conditions for moving through them or have hazards. >2 Impassable.Picrel to see a visualisation of this. The dashed terrain has an extra cost of 1 and a difficulty of 1. So with slow mobility its impassable, with normal its just more expensive, with agile it does nothing.A unit will be able to choose to move slower and raise it's mobility. But obviously without a special effect a unit can't go from agile to hover, or hover to flight, or flight to teleport. Just can move up and down between slow, normal and agile.

Anon02/26/26, 23:36No.2352224

Sanity check, is there anyway to make a total war style strat game work with a real time overworld instead of turn based?

Anon02/28/26, 11:21No.2353222

Guys turn-based or realtime?

Anon03/07/26, 02:36No.2357263

Started working on something. Figuring out colliders was quite messy, but I'm happy with the result. Now I have to figure out how to place names on the map.

Anon03/08/26, 16:45No.2357984

I thought people usually color pick at the mouse with the province map instead of colliders. Idk what the difference is though.

Anon03/11/26, 00:52No.2359489

For space wargame somebody suggested you have planet battles along with space battles. I plan on space battles ending pretty quickly in around a day, unless they are reinforced, but I don't know how to make that work with land battles because just moving across a small distance on a planet with a tank would take a day. I don't know how to do this without making it cumbersome. Imagine if you were invading several planets across different systems, it seems like it would become annoying to manage, especially in real time with pause.

Anon03/14/26, 15:58No.2361855

Finished V2 setting, the previous version had 98 provinces, the new one has 322. I feel like provinces are not small enough, and maybe I should split them even further. But at the same time, I doubt it would make it more interesting. Mayhaps interest is limited by a one-island nature of the setting, but I felt I'd better not add any islands before I figure out the navy system. Adding impassable strips of land could also be interesting, but many people seem to dislike impassable tiles.

Anon03/14/26, 18:53No.2361983

I don't want to make a game from scratch. Rather, I want to mod an existing game into the setting I created. What strategy games have the most comprehensive and easy to use modding tools?