SWARMMO - INDIE MMO

oh yeah..now that i think about it
you are correct.

it took me so long to reach this conclusion

getting a better idea of how to do combat. there are turns and phases. 2 phases: action, execution.

turn = 1 or both or more phases.
some phases are linked? you can't have execution without having an action. but if you have no action (took too long), exec is skipped for you.

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beatings will continue until morale improves

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really want to live in a place where the rain never ends, cigarettes are cheap, and people know when to stay out of each other's business.

Or via bolstering existing squads in the field with new units.

the commander can't spawn new units during a decision tick. that can only happen on a "spawn tick" based on available spawn tickets. its coordinated with the director process. on a "spawn tick" the commander can spawn new units via creating completely new squads at home.

the idea is more clear to me now. every decision tick - the (faction) commander marks fulfilled and unfulfilled objectives. Squads part of the former flow to the latter based on ??? evaluation/criteria.

on a decision tick - the commander CAN merge, "upgrade", "recall" squads

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playing bowazon in Diablo 2. Act 4 was hard. Things got easier after level 30 and I unlocked the ice arrow mobbing skill. Now its more fun.

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a unit always evaluates its local space (cells in FOV). it builds an interest map of what it sees. if collision is most interesting thing and we are going to bump into it soon (time horizon), steering takes over.

got a big improvement in "AI agent" behaviour for SWARMMO. the steering dir code was messed up. units that were trying to steer out of a collision could only pick 2 directions (should be 8). i forgot to change it...

NOT THAT AI AGENT. AUTONOMOUS AGENT. like video game AI.

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you see how this stuff makes someone go crazy? human beings were supposed to do things like chop wood hunt animals and forage. not think about the nature of "objectives".

i've been thinking about this stuff for months. trying different ideas and iterating. but now its at the point where I really need to address these fundamental questions rather than hand wave them away.

I'm working on the game everyday! Right now I'm caught up on some design ideas around assigning objective priorities. What counts as "capturing an objective"? What rewards are given? how should a commander allocate resources (squads) to pursue them?

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shut the hell up bot

love getting into absurd and bizarre situations. nothing more exciting than that.

need to be serious and get my shit together. but also I want to go on a week-long bender so I can get some inspiration.

need to devise some plan for July. the next month is critical! it may be the last month I can work on SWARMMO full time. I gotta make the most of it.

making plans is a good idea. sticking to them is a terrible one!

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looks baller

Some new SWARMMO gameplay! V0.049.

We are almost at V0.50 which will contain a bunch of additional changes!

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absolutely crushed some work today! SWARMMO combat is so much better now that action cooldowns are shown in client and synced up with the server CD timer. Combat makes sense. I don't know what the hell I was thinking before...

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The last time I “studied” Diablo 2 was 8 months ago. Back then I noted how much my game differed from it. Now I’m noticing how much is the same.

sometimes in gamedev playing videogames actually counts as "studying". Right now I have to replay Diablo 2: Resurrected and study aspects of its combat, stats, and level design.

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SWARMMO map is really starting to improve. Next update will be so good.

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I need to enjoy the journey despite what life throws at me. Because in the future when I look back on this period I'll only remember the good and all the hard times will be forgotten. No matter what the end outcome is. If I'm successful or not.

hard times ahead. due to external factors in my life. I'm remaining positive. I don't know what else to do but keep working. I hope this gamble pays off and life changes in the next few months.

yeah its iced tea season. you can switch it up low sugar and then normal sugar. my sweat ends up smelling like iced tea.

subsisting on some diet of digestive biscuits and iced tea

I capped it to 100 players max + 500 AI Units max. Technically it can be way more for both as long as the population is distributed throughout the map. But the map is not big enough yet.

I started to annotate the map in Tiled to correspond to the sectors of the strategic map. Before I would eyeball it. I can start annotating the map with other static info too.

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