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Published: 2013-10-01 17:00:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 10791; Favourites: 284; Downloads: 223
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Click the image for full view! (1920x1080) This is a visual target concept I've made for my turn-based-strategy mech project. Hopefully it will look better in 3D!For more information on the project check my development blog:
toasticusprime.tumblr.com/
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I would love to have you on my Team, I'm making a Mech RTS myself
if you want to join a small team let me know.
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Looks very cool! I've had this kind of image in my mind for awhile, but as a dual-stick, Renegade Ops-style shooter. Or to those really old guys like me, something like MechWarrior 3050 on SNES.
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inderesding ... are you drawing inspiration form Airmech/Mewarrior Tactics
BTW how far are you on the backend-code? Will this be played on a hexagone map ala BattleTech tabletops? Will et be fully 3D animated or oldschool 2D in an isometric view?
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Not familiar with Airmech, and I haven't played MW Tactics. I did play the tabletop back in the day, as well as most of the older PC Mechwarrior titles and MWO.
I've got a solid base of the tactical combat working, including movement, weapon firing, environment destruction, pathing, and basic enemy AI. The most recent video is on the tumblr link in the description if you are curious to see it in action. It uses a square grid but mechs take up a 2x2 space, and is fully 3D animated.
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wow.. very like details and soft look of colors
and scope of game screen - and game genre
very interested in this project
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Awesome, that's great to hear!
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I would love to work on something like this!
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It's a lot of fun to work on, for sure
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I bet. Β I wanna make props for it!
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man... r u workin on that alone?!?!
you are a hero!
sure i wanna play it ^^
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Dude, I see a couple guard drones! Right? 2draw.net/view/70435/
Really solid work, broski.
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Yeah man! Cool that you remember that 
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I hope this one be enjoible when finished.
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Β And hope i'm read this right without Google Translate.Β
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Oh, hello! Please ask me if you have any questions. I can try to give simple answers that the translator will understand.
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Actually i know english but too bad. 
Also i don't have questions for now, just requesting to more information about developing in future or some links to information about this game when you may show em. Thanks anyway!
P. S.: Google Translate is horrible to use if you doesn't know language even a little, so better i try writing on english.Β
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Haha! I understand, and I'm glad you commented! For now this is a project I am working on alone, and I have a development blog here:
toasticusprime.tumblr.com/
I will continue updating deviantArt also. Cheers!
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Nice dude, i will definitly keep an eye on this one, it has a BT feeling to it and gods know we need good BT games with the 2 last flops.
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I've actually played a crapton of MWO and enjoy it despite the plethora of technical issues it still has, but it's definitely a bummer that they made two multiplayer-only BT games in a row. My project is a single-player campaign first and foremost though (don't know if I'll ever even get around to a multiplayer component) so hopefully it'll scratch that itch.
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For a BT fan of 20 years like myself MWO has become an obscenity but moving on, yes i really hope you can make that itch go away, i have alot of faith in indies these days.
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Yep, it's a 2D painting made with Photoshop. That said, it was painted over top of a simple 3D rendering blockout (via 3DS MAX) to save time and effort setting up correct lighting and perspective for the larger shapes.
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This is very cool. I'm not huge on strategy games (last one I played regularly was DoW eight or so years ago) but I'd definitely give a game of this concept a try.
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Well hey that's a good sign! Hopefully I can put together something that is easy to understand but challenging to master. I think the intimidation factor and tedium of having to click so much to do anything in the old-school user interfaces put up a kind of barrier for strategy games. You had to already be very interested in playing to stick with the games long enough to get to the good stuff.
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End War was a really neat concept. If you don't know it, they used voice commands to interact with troops in a battlefield scenario. Honestly, I just enjoyed feeling like I was some important commanding figure.
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Wicked stuff.
I have a few mech ideas in my head for my own game, but they're somewhat silly on concept (one's a more literal take on a spider tank (with the odd part that sticks off being a piece of siege artillery and the other is based off a 1950s bulldozer). This seems more serious.
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Thanks! I've seen some crazy mech designs out there, and they can be pretty awesome. I tend to be pretty conservative in my designs, but once I get through an initial basic set of mechs I'm going to go for some more unusual and eccentric stuff which should be fun.
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Nice. So have I, actually. Let me know if you put the game on kickstarter.
If I may make a suggestion: a bear-like quadruped mech with two flak cannons. Call it the Ursa Mauler with a Snow, Night Ops and Brown colorset.
Because that seems somewhat silly without being too silly.
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Haha! I dig it!
Yeah, I expect I'll be going to Kickstarter before long. There are some other options to explore as well but I should have some news on that front in a month or two.
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I'll keep an eye out.
Glad you like it. It was an on the spot idea, but it's the kind of thing that makes for entertainment. Especially if you add a scene with some characters wondering why anyone built it.
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Turn Based? Mechs?Β
Man, if you get all the right elements in there, you've got yourself a sale!
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Haha! I know, right? Even if someone else started up a project with the same basic idea in some freak coincidence, I'd just want to shake their hand and say "so when can I play it??"
If you're interested I have some work-in-progress videos of the game prototype up on the dev blog: toasticusprime.tumblr.com/postβ¦
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I've gotta say I'm pretty hyped! Looks really awesome. Can't wait to see what direction you take it in~
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Niceeee man! Love the color pallet and shapes
Excellent work
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Thanks Jacob, I really appreciate it dude!
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This is so cool Zack! and I second Dave on the Zack being a Mechmaster.Β
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Awesome. Β
There seems to be no debris from the exploded smoking thingy next to the red mech, and it looks kinda like a stand off, since no one is in the middle of firing or getting hit.
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