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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #60 on: February 14, 2010, 07:50:22 am »
That sounds really cool!

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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #61 on: February 14, 2010, 12:42:25 pm »
Another interesting fact: We don't have real physics for every single occurance, but I'm planning on adding weapon's collision: If a weapon hits a tree, a mountain or a wall, it will hit the object and not continue towards its target, although since flying units are high enough, this does not apply to air-to-air weapons

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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #62 on: February 14, 2010, 03:01:29 pm »
cool, should be more realistic, altough then you must make sure these obstacles looks high enough ^^

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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #63 on: February 15, 2010, 09:36:45 pm »
Wow, this looks great. I'm liking it so far.
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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #64 on: February 21, 2010, 05:30:40 am »
Lacking anything else to work on, I started the S.A.D. manual.  I can safely say that it sure is a lot of fun designing reasons that the vessels do what they do, as well as writing the history for them.  You'll find there's a little bit more history for each vessel than the Starcraft manual provides, although it's probably because I have only nine vessels and the Starcraft manual had to shorten information for many, many more units.

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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #65 on: February 21, 2010, 05:51:04 am »
Get back to work!

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It's good that the manual is detailled, though. just make sure for those who hate long texts that the game can be explained to them in a quick way (that can be understood by someone who played RTSes before). :)

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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #66 on: February 21, 2010, 12:57:07 pm »
@DJ Good point.  I should probably include a "quick start" for those who want just the game and not the history.

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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #67 on: February 21, 2010, 06:18:05 pm »
would definetily like the quick start guide as i hate personnaly reading all of the bios and such just to figure out how to play X.x

looks great and i cant wait to see what you have coming as to teh history of all the units and such :)

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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #68 on: February 21, 2010, 07:28:22 pm »
What I'll end up doing is providing a list at the beginning of the manual, describing each of the sections and who should read it.  For instance, there will be a "Units: Quick Start" section and a Standard Units section, and in the list, I'll say that the Quick Start is for those who want to play without trying to understand everything (or need a quick reference to refer to), and the Units section is for those who want the details.

There's going to be about 9-12 sections in the manual, so those who don't read this list will most likely end up reading more than they want to.
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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #69 on: February 21, 2010, 08:00:14 pm »
I would definitely be the one who will read the manual from front to back. I just love the new universe, the story behind games, etc.


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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #70 on: February 21, 2010, 08:38:24 pm »
I would definitely be the one who will read the manual from front to back. I just love the new universe, the story behind games, etc.
Me too.  I'm sure I'll end up printing this manual out. :D

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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #71 on: February 21, 2010, 09:27:24 pm »
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I'm sure I'll end up printing this manual out.

Which reminds me, I'll have a few pages in the manual that I'll recommend EVERYBODY print, listing hotkeys and other quick reference information

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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #72 on: February 21, 2010, 09:42:42 pm »
Also require people to type a security code before running the game that can be found somewhere near the end of all essential info needed to play the game in the readme :P, that way it forces people to at least read the readme and now spam authors with alerady awnsered questions :P

(Metroid II Expansion and Zelda Dark Link Quest have this :P)

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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #73 on: March 01, 2010, 01:41:41 am »
Cooliojazz and Silver Shadow, feel free to add the "S.A.D. development team" userbar to your signatures.  It's not required, but if you want to add it, be my guest.

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Re: S.A.D. , A Real-Time Strategy Game for Ti-83+ and Ti-84+ calculators
« Reply #74 on: March 01, 2010, 02:01:02 am »
if you add to your sig on other forums, feel free to also link to the SAD subforum either here or on UTI so people know what is it.