ablahblah987
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I like this idea. Good luck.
Dragon Chess
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Zarnik":3kpab42x said:
Well, yeah, obviously. But my graphic abilities are limited to modification, not creation. If you wish to make graphics for the game, I'd be glad to have you. In fact, I could use some decent graphics for the sky board, all I have is the background that scrolls and the basic board tiles. =/
You can easily put together an AI for chess-like games beating most humans. Even though your board is larger and you seem to have more pieces with many choices the game appears to have a decent branching factor and ordinary minimax&co should do well. To get more human-like play, you may either want to adjust the evaluation function, include negative parameters or use for instance UCT.
Read for instance
http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/topics.htm
http://members.home.nl/matador/stuff.htm
shiroun":l50f7nzn said:
If you mean the chess/chinese checkers thread, then it doesn't seem like a tutorial, and the link has died from inactivity. =/
However, I love the idea of using a Tactical Battle System for the game. I had never thought of that.
I'll definitely look into that ^_^
eharper256
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In case you don't already know; the great Gary Gygax actually passed away earlier this week, aged 70... without him, there would be no Dungeons and Dragons!
Anyhow; leaving that somewhat morbid note, looks cool- I invented my own simple version of Dragon Chess for the D&D games I was the GM of called Sphinx's Wargame. But the original is cool, if somewhat complex (My players never had the patience to learn it, especially the Paladin, hence the simplification) I hope you make it gain as legendary a status as Windows 3.1 Battle Chess. LOL.
Anyhow; leaving that somewhat morbid note, looks cool- I invented my own simple version of Dragon Chess for the D&D games I was the GM of called Sphinx's Wargame. But the original is cool, if somewhat complex (My players never had the patience to learn it, especially the Paladin, hence the simplification) I hope you make it gain as legendary a status as Windows 3.1 Battle Chess. LOL.
eharper256
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Of course! It was about the only good game you could ever play in Windows 3.1, since all other games pretty much required you to play them through DOS, usually after some farting around with your config.sys in order to free up a sufficient amount of XMS memory, and configuring your soundblaster's IRQ ports. How easier things have become with the wonder of DirectX.
This was of course before Windows became the primary operating system; and it was merely a piggyback rider of DOS that allowed you to have a prettier Word Processor with a mouse driven interface. Battle Chess probably used it because it was lazily programmed and could use the windows mouse driver this way, without having to load one of its own. Still a good game though; I especially liked how the Rooks turned into stone golems, and the fact that every potential battle had a unique animation.
But anyhow, this is massively off-topic. Hope it goes well, and nice to see this'll be your tribute to Gary.
This was of course before Windows became the primary operating system; and it was merely a piggyback rider of DOS that allowed you to have a prettier Word Processor with a mouse driven interface. Battle Chess probably used it because it was lazily programmed and could use the windows mouse driver this way, without having to load one of its own. Still a good game though; I especially liked how the Rooks turned into stone golems, and the fact that every potential battle had a unique animation.
But anyhow, this is massively off-topic. Hope it goes well, and nice to see this'll be your tribute to Gary.
Okay, I have an update for you all. I have posted a demo of the game. It is only enough to show you the rules, however, so it does not merit a move to the demos section, yet. When I get a playable demo out, then we can see about moving the topic.
For now, enjoy learning the rules to the game, and let me know if I made any mistakes, or if any parts are too hard to understand.
For now, enjoy learning the rules to the game, and let me know if I made any mistakes, or if any parts are too hard to understand.
Considering the last post to this was in March, I hope the Mods will forgive me for making another post without anyone else posting.
I have updated the main post with a bit of new information. I would also like you all to know that the first playable demo may be out soon. GubiD has been making great progress on the system. All he needs is a bit of information from me and he will put in the final 'tweaks' to the system. I'll let you all know when that demo is available. Might still be a few weeks off, though.
I have updated the main post with a bit of new information. I would also like you all to know that the first playable demo may be out soon. GubiD has been making great progress on the system. All he needs is a bit of information from me and he will put in the final 'tweaks' to the system. I'll let you all know when that demo is available. Might still be a few weeks off, though.
paulalankelly
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Nice game, I'm gunna Download the Demo
As GubiD left the group to pursue greater things, I am in need of a new programmer, one that is willing to create an AI for the program. GubiD already created the movement system, which is all but complete, all you would need to do is make an AI that can work with it.
Please contact me if you are interested.
Please contact me if you are interested.
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