Squares versus Hexes - THE DUEL

MarkyX · 2005-12-09T03:48:11

Okay, some of you may of heard of a little project I had in Help Wanted called Project Garas. It's a turn based game using a hexagonal grid like a board game. Actually nabbed a few people. Good news, the programming is going well although the game hasn't been touched yet (engine work). Bad news, the game has around 90 units and we only have one sprite artist at the moment. He told me that I need to find more people (which I do) since it's going to be tough work. Not because of drawing the sprites, but setting them up in different positions. I said "Yeah, diagonal, left, right, up, and down." "Wait ..I thought I was doing diagonal" So my question to you guys is this...in a turn-based game, are squares and hexagonal a huge difference in terms of game play and genre fitting? I mean, I like the idea of moving to different directions, but in a resource standpoint, having the sprite artist doing all those position and animatinog each one is a bit of a pain.