In my reflections when I think about how things work in a RTS I`m considering Starcraft as the main term of comparison.  I`m trying to get a perspective on what `position` means to AI. When does the `location` come into play? When the AI player decides to attack another player it will send it`…

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I have a picture I would like to use as cover photo on my profile page however the space there is too small so I`m placing the picture here 

this might seem like an odd approach but , for now, I`m not doing the front end of my game. You can`t control units, the setup will work such that the game will have only AI players all that`s left to you is watch. 

the amount of art work needed to have just one unit is discouraging, using a hexagonal grid will ease a bit the pressure. I know -2 animations per animation type is not much but with several characters/units the difference piles up.  Meanwhile I have been working on sprite Z sorting. 

The next thing on the to do list is resources. I will work on making units gather resources.  There are no animations just yet, a unit is a mere moving square for now.  When I will have art assets the units will get appropriate representation.  

I`m undecided about the type of resource gathering I s…

The next thing I`m doing is pathfinding. along with some obstacles that will make a map. I`m not an artist so the map items (trees, rocks etc) will be algorithmically generated. Nothing beats the hand of an artist so I will need to be generating at least half way complex geometry to make up.  …

I`m making my GUI without helper libraries. I`m not using a mouse, it`s all keyboard driven. It`s a editor not game GUI. 
I keep wandering what makes a GUi balanced.  How many items are enough to be displayed in a given context i.e how do you know for example when to switch from a standard page to t…

Since I haven`t made mention of it, I think it should be noticed that I`m also working on a sci fi RTS. It will get its own blog thread as soon as there will be stuff worth showcasing ( a minimum amount of onscreen interaction within the game).  I`m calling the game Nanostorm2 after an older p…

From where I am now I can`t state the precise recipy (formula) of our dish but ray tracing will be an ingredient.  I know  real-time games and ray-tracing don`t match but we are not going the traditional path. And even if ray tracing doesn`t make it in the game executable it will find it`…

3D games are better than 2D games. However coming up with 3d graphics (art assets) that are high quality and omoneneus across the game is difficult. That`s the real challenge. We might have 3d graphics one day but until then it`s 2d.