[Discussion] The Solar Empires - A C# XNA Game

[Crazed_seal2]

Solar Imperium - XNA C# Game with Editor

Hello guys.

I've been developing a little game for a bit now. I'm not making any promises, but heres what I've got so far.

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The game is either going to be turned based, or some sort of date system. You control one of the empires, you have quite a lot of control. I'm hoping to add some things such as politics and stuff.

It's pretty early development.

No promises, just looking for feedback.


Most of the art was made by me in paint. UI has CnP'd stuff.

If I ever release it. its going to be free.

It's for the Windows platform only. XNA/Windows Forms does that.

 

[Statharas]

I like how it looks. Could be a fun game. Try porting it on browsers too.

 

[Crazed_seal2]

A small little update.

I added a "algorithm" that makes sure all planets are connected to the first planet generated, ("The Origin Planet"). This is to make sure all planets are able to be reached.

Some basic work on a "World Editor". As seen in the Eighth Screenshot. It's pretty basic.

Some minor UI changes.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Let me get it right... It is using 150 MB just for that?! You are aware that current generation games like those on the PS3/Xbox360 only have 512 MB of memory in total.

What is using so much memory?

 

[Crazed_seal2]

Inefficient coding by me. It's not much of game but the Textures that seem to be loading into the memory.

Just a note, I have began recoding a lot of the stuff. Some things just won't work together

So i've been set back a bit. Trying to implement some of the old stuff with new stuff.

Lesson Learnt: Windows Forms and XNA games don't mix.

 

[Crazed_seal2]

Added a screenshot of the editor so far.

I'll add another very soon.

 

[Statharas]

You should make a 512*512 texture map that includes every planet's texture.

 

[Crazed_seal2]

I've been working on some sort of trigger system. Not going well

There isn't that many textures.
5 for each planet type...

Planet types also do things... Such as population growth and other things yet to be done.

I also stress, I am not a graphics artist. The game is going to look like it was made in paint, which it was.

Another thing.

- Completed camera movement for the editor.
- Able to delete planets.
- Some sort of main menu is done. Gotta redo some things.


Also the game was renamed...

 

[Dr Super Good]

The game is going to look like it was made in paint, which it was.

Get GIMP. It might not be as good as professional programs like Photoshop or Paintshop but it is infinity better than Paint.

You should make a 512*512 texture map that includes every planet's texture.

Depends if he wants them to be vectors or bitmaps. Vectors would be stored in vertex buffers while bitmaps in pixel buffers.

 

[GhostWolf]

Depends if he wants them to be vectors or bitmaps. Vectors would be stored in vertex buffers while bitmaps in pixel buffers.

What on Earth are you talking about...there is literally zero relevance to VBOs and PBOs and using a texture atlas...

As to the editor - games of this type usually create the galaxies procedurally, not manually.

You should be able to move from any planet to any planet. A way to make people not want to do this (unless they have upgrades etc.) is fuel supplies, but you shouldn't force someone to take a specific path.

The only way to get to those ridiculous memory outputs is by loading your images every time you draw them. Don't ever do that. Load once and use multiple times.

 

[Crazed_seal2]

What on Earth are you talking about...there is literally zero relevance to VBOs and PBOs and using a texture atlas...

As to the editor - games of this type usually create the galaxies procedurally, not manually.

You should be able to move from any planet to any planet. A way to make people not want to do this (unless they have upgrades etc.) is fuel supplies, but you shouldn't force someone to take a specific path.

The only way to get to those ridiculous memory outputs is by loading your images every time you draw them. Don't ever do that. Load once and use multiple times.

My plan was making the game able to generate it's own galaxy.

I was/am going to make the ability to move to any planet, just the player needs an upgrade and is limited to a certain range. Linked planets 'trade' with each other, influence each other, immigration from one planet to another.

Early screenshots are outdated, the game doesnt use that much memory. It's lowered by about 70%.

Each planet type has it's array of "images" and the planet has an integer which determines which image from the array it draws.

spriteBatch.Draw(Arid[planet.planetTexture], new Rectangle(planet.Rect.X - View.X, planet.Rect.Y - View.Y, 32, 32), Color.White);

"Arid" being an image array with all the arid planet images loaded into it, and then the game runs a loop through all the planets and draws them where the view is, and it also checks whether or not the planet is actually in the view rect.

I'm not sure about vector graphics, but i'm using bitmap type images (png).

 

[Kanadaj]

EDIT: Nvm, tested it and I don't know what the problem is