Tagged:  combat

By Mak, May 10, 2017 Comments Off on The Evolutionary Boid – Part Four Design, Dev, General

The final chapter in this round of dev on the NPC Pilot AI; While there is plenty of work still to do to make this ‘super awesome’ I’m well pleased with how it’s turned out. Pilots can; Scan for nearby… Read More »

By Mak, May 1, 2017 Comments Off on Collision Redux Dev, General

Thanks to the NPC’s wanting to vapourise each others hull (and mine!) it was a perfect time to revisit and improve the collision detection from back along… For ‘something to hull’ collision, there’s no choice but to hit the triangle… Read More »

By Mak, April 26, 2017 Comments Off on The Evolutionary Boid – Part Three Design, Dev

More combat/gameplay development! If you can’t stand my drawl, then read on… This episode sees improved ‘target awareness’ and predictive firing, so now these pesky NPC pilots are becoming a bit more of a challenge/threat. The entire system is proving… Read More »

By Mak, April 25, 2017 Comments Off on Design & Development Delights Design, Dev, General

Man, I am so enjoying Dom Dev at the moment 🙂 Rounding off the initial Pilot / NPC AI, Collision detection and basic combat has spurned on a lot of changes to the UI which have been long planned, or… Read More »

By Mak, April 6, 2017 Comments Off on Cue Gameplay…? Design, Dev, General

It’s been hard to find spare time for Dom Dev of late, hence the dry spell of updates here, but good news… With the collision detection now in (and not perfect, but well engineered and adequate to the task) gameplay… Read More »

By Mak, March 7, 2017 Comments Off on The Evolutionary Boid – Part 2 Dev, Media

The saga continues, with more progress and the use of the super ImGui to provide low-level control and dev/debugging tools within the engine in realtime…

By Mak, February 27, 2017 Comments Off on The Evolutionary Boid – Part 1 Dev, Media

Resetting the clock on the development of the NPC/Boid symbiant – just so the video log makes sense on YouTube. As promised, Part 1 begins our ‘warts n’ all’ development log of the system as I tweak and evolve it… Read More »

By Mak, May 31, 2014 1 Dev, General

Phew! Much improved since the post of a few days ago – thankfully! I’ve been out of the picture for about 3 weeks – off work, the lot – been quite the ‘adventure’ but fortunately I’m back on track it seems…. Read More »

By Mr T, June 28, 2013 1 Design, General

Real space combat – when we grow up enough as a civilisation to actually fly around in space shooting at each other like the idiots we are – will be totally inhuman and totally unfair. A laser travels at the… Read More »

By Mak, May 3, 2013 Comments Off on Kickstarter Pitch Is Live! General, News

We’re finally live – thank the maker! It’s been a long hard slog, but here we are! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maksw/dominion-fight-for-your-future-amongst-the-stars   We’re making a call to arms for everyone who’s already backed us, and is already interested in backing us to back… Read More »

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