7DRL Success: Domination Empires

Numeron irunsofastineedafinonmyhead at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 12 10:47:24 PST 2010


Well, I was first to announce my start so I guess its fitting that Im
first to announce my success.

As I noted in my first post I took the week off of work and so I took
the opportunity to really push myself. 12 hours a day, and last night
no sleep, a full 30 hours infront of the computer trying to get it
done on time. Now Im too tired to continue playtesting but it all
seems to be good. There is a problem with the AI occasionally spiking
the time it takes to work, and I think its because if AStar is running
with no solution it fills out. Occasionally you will take a turn and
the game will lag a bit. I had to do a lot of optimisations all over
the board because there are so many creatures all moving at once. The
larger levels that are available run quite slow, but the smaller ones
are fine. Post challenge balancing and bug updates and further
optimisations are likely, but its polished enough as is and I dont
think there are any serious problems.

Anyway I think my result is an unprecedented success, hopefully its a
bit of a showstopper ;)

There is no help screen or scoreboard that i wanted in but the
important keys are displayed on the interface, and you can live
without knowing how many kills everyone has made...

Domination Empires:
Long past are the days of minor internal squabbles that were the
tribulations of the coloured blobs fighting over small rooms as in
last years 7drl, Domination. The fighting has spilled out into the
lands and your goal is to take your horde of whatever they are and
paint the lands the colour of your choice. Capture areas next to yours
by standing on the flag at the centre of that area. First capture all
of the enemy base points wins. You can schedule buildings to be
constructed in areas and once youve seleced a place and building via
the menu you can see how long before it will appear by looking on the
world map. Buildings mostly upgrade the army native to the area they
are built in, but some - like the graveyard allow you to respawn there
if its closer than your home base. Each area has defenders which can
be distinguished by the shield symbol they display, attackers which
display the letter of the area they are from, and a leader which wears
a crown. Attackers will for the most part follow their leader.

Started: 12:30pm Sat 06-Mar-2009 (GMT+9:30)
Ended: 08:00pm Fri 12-Mar-2009 (GMT+9:30)

Get it here! A couple of screenshots available, Im too tired to make
more! Proper help text some other time!

www.users.on.net/~rossn

-Numeron


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