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a11
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Germany300 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-11-19 11:48:24
November 19 2023 08:03 GMT
#1
Still working on this game - a lot has changed since my last post. Dumping a few gifs…
Free DL or play-in-browser: https://filmstars.itch.io/hypercoven

Floating units

Some sprites I was working with did not look quite like fliers, but looked like they should be able to move over water, etc.
This gave me the idea of adding "floating" units in the middle between ground and air units.
Floating units can usually attack (and be attacked by) both ground and air units. This, in turn, gives air units which can’t attack ground a more interesting role, as they can at least fight floating units.

Floaters can move down cliffs, but not up. So their movement is not as free as proper air units.

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Wreckage and Forests added as decoration and gameplay element (destructible)

Random spread, amount can be configured (or completely disabled) in Multiplayer.

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Sound Effects

Added background music, announcer voice, and sound effects for all attacks.
WebM with sound: https://imgur.com/sGquGlV
The browser version doesn’t (yet?) have sound, as it’s a pain to set up in that enviroment.

Ground Effects

Added a system for modifying the state of terrain. So far there is flames and fog, with the fog blocking vision: ground units inside the foggy area can only see adjacent tiles, while air units can look "over" the fog, but not see enemy ground units inside.

Only one effect can be active on a piece of ground at once, so there is interesting interaction of clearing undesired ground effects with your own. Anyways all effects are completely symmetric, flames will hurt anyone standing on them, no matter who created the flames, etc.

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Unit modification

There is now a system for different kinds of stacking (de)buffs/duration; anyways the goal for the game is to keep all buffs very straightforward and easy to understand.
E.g. there is the "Magnets Dealer" which increases the Magnetism stat of friendly units for a short time. Magnetism mostly increases ranged attack damage or spell damage, depending on the unit. Melee units do not benefit from it.

The maximum in a stat is 15, but a Magnets Dealer will only give +3 with a single action. E.g. a unit can be supplied thrice to get +9, and then each of these +3 will fall off on its own timer.

Contrasting this, the "Ultra Violence Potion" of the Alchemist: It always gives maximum Violence, which mostly enhances melee damage. The buff duration is very short, but it is applied repeatedly while the flask contents are evaporation in the ground. The buff will apply to friend and foe alike if they are hit.

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Technology enhancements

Got the game to run in browser with emscripten. This works surprisingly well!

Later I drew up an alternate version with custom renderer (instead of the one from SDL2), in order to add some shaders and improve performance/visuals of a few things.
Unfortunately it cannot run in emscripten, because WebGL doesn’t support compute shaders. So there is an alternate browser version that directly runs on wasm+WebGPU. Interestingly, it has more issues than the emscripten version.
These builds are available at https://filmstars.itch.io/frontiercoven

Multiplayer and Replays

Multiplayer is available, with a public lobby server that requires no registration.
There is a half dozen maps shipped with the game. Some are made in the "tiled" map editor, but the layout is yet a bit arcane.

Replays are saved by the server (without chat) and available after the match.
It’s possible to watch replays together! In the same vein, it is possible to join a match as observer/spectator.



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Kantuva
Profile Joined April 2010
Uruguay206 Posts
November 20 2023 21:21 GMT
#2
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Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
November 22 2023 20:26 GMT
#3
LOVE the aesthetics of this game, well done!! I'm a bit of a noob and couldn't get the hotkeys (attack, hold position, abilities etc.) to work, any idea on why that could be? Playing the downloadable version
Mine gas, build tanks.
a11
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Germany300 Posts
November 23 2023 06:33 GMT
#4
On November 23 2023 05:26 Akio wrote:
LOVE the aesthetics of this game, well done!! I'm a bit of a noob and couldn't get the hotkeys (attack, hold position, abilities etc.) to work, any idea on why that could be? Playing the downloadable version


Thank you!
The hotkeys should be layed out on the classic grid (qwer+asdf+zxcv in US) irregardless of what keys are actually on there. So e.g. even on a French KB (azerty…), the A for Attack would be next to the capslock button (on Q!), instead of being on the actual A key next to tab.
The tooltips in game unfortunately do not reflect this (yet).
If with this info it still doesn’t work for you - can you tell me your KB layout? That might bring us closer to the answer.
Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
November 23 2023 15:28 GMT
#5
On November 23 2023 15:33 a11 wrote:
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On November 23 2023 05:26 Akio wrote:
LOVE the aesthetics of this game, well done!! I'm a bit of a noob and couldn't get the hotkeys (attack, hold position, abilities etc.) to work, any idea on why that could be? Playing the downloadable version


Thank you!
The hotkeys should be layed out on the classic grid (qwer+asdf+zxcv in US) irregardless of what keys are actually on there. So e.g. even on a French KB (azerty…), the A for Attack would be next to the capslock button (on Q!), instead of being on the actual A key next to tab.
The tooltips in game unfortunately do not reflect this (yet).
If with this info it still doesn’t work for you - can you tell me your KB layout? That might bring us closer to the answer.

I use a "standard" qwer+asdf+zxcv keyboard, so that's why I was wondering. I tested it again today and all the hotkeys, including control groups worked normally. No idea why this is, only thing I could think of on my end would be that maybe I had alt-shifted to a non-English language on Windows before playing.
Mine gas, build tanks.
a11
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Germany300 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-11-24 08:38:26
November 24 2023 08:17 GMT
#6
Aight, good to hear :/
There have been many issues with the gridkeys in browser versions (canvas not capturing input at all, mapping confusions probably because layout is assumed from locale, …) but on native it has always worked in testing.
Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
November 25 2023 01:03 GMT
#7
Huh, that's pretty strange. Indeed it sounds logical that input issues happen with browser versions... I can try and replicate the issue to see if it was just a random bug.
Mine gas, build tanks.
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