About “Small Battles”.
So, if it wasn’t obvious from the previous post, I think one of the key elements in making a replayable tactical combat system is to have a variety of enemies with very distinct styles. That, unfortunately, tends to be a problem when you are trying to model historical combat. It…
I’ve had game development as a hobby for way too many years. In all those years, there is one design issue that I’ve worked on in one form or another pretty much constantly: how to incorporate tactical combat into strategic gameplay. I’ve never been satisfied with any of the solutions…
Continuing on from last week’s post, here is a little something on some of the thoughts I have for the combat mechanics. Note that these are definitely subject to change; the system needs to be both fun, and work well (i.e., give reasonable results), and some of that will only really…
I thought it might be interesting to write something about the combat mechanics in the (unimaginatively named) BattleBytes system, which is being developed for Pirates and Traders 2. Disclaimer: Since this is still very much in development, the design here may change before it goes public. Scale BattleBytes is a…
By far the most frequent question I get is “when will Pirates and Traders 2 be done”. The answer to that is the annoying – but unfortunately accurate – “when it is done”. Software development is my passion, but developing games is only the part of that which I do…
As mentioned elsewhere, I’ve been working on Small Battles for the past couple of weeks. And after this latest round of improvements, I feel that it may be ready to go into more intensive testing. So what is Small Battles again? It’s changed a bit in the details since I…