[Fineus]

As the title says - how hard should it be to make a space combat game, assuming theres ten people who know their particular roles working on the game?

[aldo_14]

Very hard.... you'd need to have 10 people with an intimate knowledge of the language, and of the proper design procedures, and also (probably) some assembly language debugging.

Also, you'd need to define interface classes for each of the individual classes (a contract), so each person would be able to work on matching object & method names / functions..... so you'd have to spend a while working on defining the problem analysis, as well.

[Fineus]

Fair enough, I'm just kicking some ideas around at the moment.

[Nico]

depends what. for sounds, graphics and all, well, with the right people, not that hard I suppose. For all the programing stuff (physics, AI, 3D engine...), that requires much more work.

[WarpStar]

I don't know, I'd say it's pretty easy.  Look at IWar, nothing but a scripting language and a few graphic tools, and that turned out A-1 Supar  

[Dr.Zer0]

 

Originally posted by WarpStar:
I don't know, I'd say it's pretty easy.  Look at IWar, nothing but a scripting language and a few graphic tools, and that turned out A-1 Supar  

err but look at FL
I havent heard anything about it in months, Im starting to think they layed of the thing

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[WarpStar]

 

Originally posted by Dr.Zer0:
err but look at FL
I havent heard anything about it in months, Im starting to think they layed of the thing

Never played FL  

[Carl]

that makes sense, since it's not out yet.

[WarpStar]

I thought FreeLancer was already out???

[Nico]

FL? naaaaaaaaah. Check the news:
 http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/

btw, FL will most likely not be interesting for us: you don't pilot the ship, you move the mouse, it's a point and click game (with a mouse no joystick support at all . great...

[Jabu]

Yeah. Great, isn't it?

BTW, I was not being sarcastic. I really do think it's a great idea.

[This message has been edited by Jabu (edited 11-11-2001).]

[WarpStar]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
FL? naaaaaaaaah. Check the news:
 http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/

btw, FL will most likely not be interesting for us: you don't pilot the ship, you move the mouse, it's a point and click game (with a mouse no joystick support at all . great...

Great Frollicking Lammas, no joystick or even piloting?????? How......strange.

[jonskowitz]

ANYWAY, If we can please get back ON topic.

Are you're thinking of doing what I think you are thinking of doing?  If so then I think it's a great idea and all, but you have to realize the kind of work and commitment it would take to do such an undertaking.  We're not talking about just generating some datafiles for a MOD, you and your team would also be responsible for authoring the software engines that will USE those hexfiles.

Just to get an idea of what is involved with this kind of project I'd take a look at the Descent 1 & 2 sourcecode and (more importantly, since it comes in a fully compilable form) the Half-life source code.  Just to see what those who have come before you have done.

Another thing I'd do is maybe talk with the people doing the "Babylon 5: I've Found Her" freeware game.  I'm sure that'd they would have far more insight into this kind of project than anyone at this forum anyway.

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[The Avenger]

as kazan already has an intemate knowlege of pof files he could no doubt code a basic program to have a 3d space sim, then i dont see why it should be to hard to advance from that, i am learning c++ at the momment so we could give it a try plenty of people to make graphics etc just need programmers

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[Setekh]

Heh... Shrike, Styxx, should we tell him?  

[Shrike]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
Heh... Shrike, Styxx, should we tell him?  

What, how hard it really is?  Sure.  

[Setekh]

 

[Fineus]

Hello Mr. Subtlety, let me introduce to you a good friend of Setekh and Shrikes, Mr. Air Raid. I think you'll get along just fine.

[Shrike]

You think this is subtle?  Geez, you should meet some of my friends.....

[Fineus]

No thanks