Author: kitapawel

Over the last few weeks I have been hard at work on an AI system that governs how AI actors behave and interact in the game. While the previous post focused on peaceful part of the game, today we will see some combat. Overview of the AI system What I want for my game is to have a map that feels alive. In a way I want the map to “play by itself”, even without the intervention of the player. To achieve this I created an NPC Player AI that governs the camps that may be scattered around the map....

In the last entry of my blog I discussed basic design of the combat system for Heresy RTS. During the last two months I have been very busy with refactoring multiple systems to make them easier to extend. I have also designed and implemented a robust job system that allows for harvesting resources, building structures and collecting items. This blog entry will focus mainly on the job system. Job system basic information The job system relies on two main pillars. First is the Resource class which can be applied to to most game objects. The Resource class determines what an object...

In a recent article I revealed my new project, an RTS/RPG hybrid. Strategy games, and RTS-es in particular, rank among my favourite game genres. I started my adventures with strategies in the early nineties with games like Centurion, Fantasy General, Command & Conquer and Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. I also played tabletop war games and boardgames. My love for strategies persisted even through the relative “dry-spell” of the 2010s. Many of the games I played over the years boasted really cool features which I wanted to see elaborated upon or translated into different contexts. This is the first of a...

After a long period of gamedev hiatus I am ready to announce my new project tentatively called Heresy. It is an RTS/RPG hybrid. I actually started laying the foundations at the end of November 2022. Many of the systems, like combat, movement, building and unit production are designed and prototyped. In this article I would like to share some introductory information about the game as well as the combat system. Basic information If I had to do an elevator pitch for the project, it would go like this: “A tactical RTS/RPG hybrid with fluid and dynamic combat that resembles Total...