isoRTS

isomorphic RTS

The project goals that have been reached:

• Create a custom game engine based upon an isomorphic projection.
• Have actors move around in this world by issuing mouse commands.
• For pathfinding use A-star and or bidirectional A-star.
• Add collectable resources to the world
• Make villagers gather the different resources and bring them to a ‘town center’
• Use these resources to build different buildings
• Require specific buildings to house new population
• Make certain the buildings produce units
• Implement Fog of war
• Interact like an RTS game
• Robust villager AI for doing a task
• Show different animations for these resources
• Generate random map on game startup
• Make the units able fight each other using melee
• Make the actors fight each other using ranged attacks
• Make certain buildings able to perform a ranged attack
• Working minimap
• Buildable town centre, house, baracks, mill and lumbercamp
• A basic Rock/Paper/Scissors for damage calculations during battle
• Basic AI to play against

Attainable project goals for the near future:

• Fighting animations
• Different units
• Different colors on units and buildings for the eight teams
• Researchable upgrades for units and buildings
• Flesh out the research with a tech tree
• Add sounds

Aim for the moon project goal:

• Working netcode to play against friends!