Game 12 - Post Mortem - RTS

My Game 12 is "RTS".  If you want to join in either with the same Genre or your own, use the tag 12Games12Weeks on Twitter and/or itch.io, I would love to see what you create in this time also!

MVP 

• UI
• Construction/Resource collection ability
• 3 unit types (to enable RPS) (maybe 4 ->  +worker/collector)
• Buildings
• HQ
• Turrets
• Unit Generation? (or make this upgrades on the HQ building)
• AI for Opponent
• Fog of War?
• upgrades?

Results

Took ~20 hours of work to complete.  Basically nothing from prior games was able to be use.  I started 2D, but then realized I would have to work out pathfinding/etc. so I switched to 3D.  I got unit construction and Unit AI/Damage working then moved on to "Side" AI, then end/load screens. You can find the game here: https://adroitconceptions.itch.io/12games12weeks-12-rts

What When Right?

• Tank Prefab trick to have 1 tank that gets told what type it is, then it builds itself up correctly.

What Lesson(s) Did I learn?

• RTS has lots of moving parts that are not 'default' in the engine.
• Smart AI is hard, interesting AI not as bad.

What did I take away?

• This definitely could be used as a playground for making a better AI with a few improvements (RPS units, resource collection) - right now it is mostly about focusing units to have more units at a combat.
• I over scoped the MVP.
• A good RTS relies on information, counters, choices.

Milestones/Workflow/Tool Usage

• 2D version of fighting tanks
• scrap 2D version
• build 3D tank models
• Build 3D terrain for map
• Tank select/send to location code
• tank moving code
• Build 3D model for base
• Spawning code
• tank combat code (&*^% angle processing to get the aiming to work correctly)

What would I do if I was to work further on this (Expanded from an MVP to a full game)?

• better art
• Resource gathering
• Build queues
• Unit groups
• alerts & jump to alert
• Better AI for AI commander
• Fully implement the RPS for the tanks
• audio
• multiple maps
• multiplayer (a whole different story with the amount of moving stuff in the game, I think RTS games are deterministic and only need to sent input syncing commands back and forth..)
• lots other.