Michael Evans

Archimedean Dynasty is what I think of. A modern take on that would slap!

Interesting! I've also thought doing a sort of space game but it's actually in a planet sized mega ocean would be a good fit for creating a more plausible "flight" model and have interesting terrain and "atmospherics" just because there would actually be a medium being moved in.

What are you cooking?

Stunning design!

Hell yeah!

Gorgeous ship designs!

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This is like the scale of Elite ships, with cockpits that are actually the size of houses!

I like the look of these. Theyre like a mix of gundam and heavy gear mechs!

The fog of war aspect was really important I thought. You could also consider cards you could place face down in a stack to do a fog of war and could be used to do compound maneuvers. Pretty print and playable.

what about a stack of tokens instead of a dial. Could be something interesting in seeing three tokens stacked instead of the usual two but not what it means, or could have bluff tokens.

Starship Landings (Prototype) by Why485 Prototype built entirely around making cool looking spaceships landings an integral part of a game.

Check it out and download it from the itch.io page. Since it's a prototype, there's little in the way of comforts, so be aware that you'll need a gamepad to to play it. It's not really configured for anything else.

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I think you can make dice thinky if you can figure out how to use them to provide input randomness instead of output randomness as suggested here. E.g. Could a rare roll ahead of time provide options to use Fighters to punch above their weight amongst other choices or meaningful decisions.

Cross referencing stats is a burden but provides flexibility. Bespoke units can be wasteful but the important stuff is right there where it needs to be.

In the end though it doesn't matter unless you also fuss with the speeds and stuff at the same time otherwise its just a way to render something that's really big without using big numbers.

I've done that in unity before. It's how I prototyped the way supercruise in elite could work and sold it to the powers that be. I knew telling unity to render something 8au away wouldnt work so I rendered it 100m away and dynamically scaled and positioned it to look further.

You can compress time, compress space or compress speeds. On Elite we dynamically altered the acceleration and speeds based on how far away you were from stuff in space, with the effective outcome of making those vast realistic distances much more compressed in terms of time to cross.

I always felt star wars stuff has to do that too else those fast cuts between taking off and then flying away from the planet into hyperspace must have covered a period of like 12 hours lol

This reminds me of the flight model from Flight of Nova. It has two modes and playing it at first you look clumsy and stupid trying to land and fly but after a couple hours you're like the millennium falcon taking off from Bespin.

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Look at these cool explosions and battle!

I'm so happy with these trails you don't even know.

The AI is extremely basic and dumb, but it surprisingly looks smarter than it is a lot of the time.

The completely unlit and non-shaded explosions and effects were the right call. I don't know that this would be a "final game" style, but it's visually appealing enough that I probably won't change it.

Some random screenshots.
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Keep cooking, this is good stuff!

All I want is for this to be trivially baked into an engine along with line drawing and quad based wire frame rendering

I tried to like this, but I already had! You should be able to double like posts.

more spaceships: "Scouts"
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When I generate ships, I do something like this to make 3-6 different interesting shapes, and then reuse those shapes in another generator, letting them overlap and be in various positions. Essentially, it is building a complex shape out of smaller simpler ones.

It's my proudest accomplishment in the near two decades I've worked in the games industry to be sure.

At one point, right at the start of ED development after I was brought on board, it was the intention of the lead programmer at the time to implement a full thrust vectoring system akin to SC. I'm very fortunate that me and the lead designer had other ideas and were allowed to pursue them.

Was I supposed to write a paper on the flight model of Elite Dangerous or did I miss that memo?