Prototype Notes 1

Posted by santosj on February 20, 2005

I am almost finished with the bases prototype. I don’t think I will program the backbone just yet. There are some more details I have to work out. I need to evaluate how everything will work and how all of the pages will work together. I will post that after I am finished with the design of the pages. I also have to work out how the database will work out.

Right now, I like what I have but the design should be changed in the future. I will work on paying someone to do a better design, when I am ready to release the game. I want to get the RTS and group modes released before the summer and work on the RPG mode in the summer when I will have a lot more time to complete all of the elements in that mode.

I’m really going off what I had planned before on paper and I didn’t go as far as the bases. The next area I need to work on is the market. There are a lot of coding to the game and it isn’t as simple as connecting the dots. A lot of it could be that simple but there are some really complex issues that will need to worked out before I release the game. Attacking won’t be a simple matter either and I really want to work more into that than I did in the last version.

I believe the market will be the first part of the prototype that I actually program the backbone on since it will be the easiest to do. It is going to be possible to use the market but there won’t be anything else that will work in the game for a while. I haven’t developed a timeline for the rest of the prototype parts but the market should only take a few days to complete.

In the bases, I planned on completing a map of the players land that details the locations of different elements. The reason for this? To show where the cities, mines, and protection levels for the player. I think it would be cool to see visually what the player has instead of having them imagine it from stats (which I will still give). I could be somewhat difficult to display all of this information on a map. I will have to experiment on that until I get it right. I don’t think it will be too big of a job. It is possible to do but it will take a lot of time and research to complete.

Other parts, such as the Ranking and group will have to wait some more time. I have to complete some of the group functionality or I’m not going to work on it and have the game as it is.

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