RTS JAM 1998

yangamedev · 2022-07-10T14:20:32Z

18 days went by fast -- anyone else switched their idea 3-4 times? Settling on this, an FPS/RTS combo, you start as a grunt then move up to sergeant (command units in squad a la BattleZone98, it was meant to be with the jam name) and finally officer (standard RTS map view and control). The idea is this is a military training academy for an ongoing cyberwar being fought on the growing "information superhighway"...recruits are comprised of mountain-dew'd-up teenagers as they have the best reaction times. The wars of the future will be fought with gamepads. Above is the basics of getting an AI skirmish match working, the big challenge has been in making a decent RTS commander AI (both opponent AND your own commander) that focuses on strategy and leaves the tactics to the squads and units. I have some family members in the Navy and it's been interesting talking to them about how military command operates, it's like a giant problem that is broken into pieces and solved in a distributed but coordinated fashion. I'm hoping to mirror that hierarchy so that the commander can focus on winning, changing strategy as need be? I'm bad at RTS games and even worse at strategy in general, so it's been cool trying to learn it by teaching an AI. Ok that's me, show me what you got!

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