{"id":730,"date":"2010-06-19T10:29:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2010-06-19T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T10:29:11","slug":"campaign-game-todo-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/06\/19\/campaign-game-todo-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign game todo list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a bit of a public brain-dump from the campaign stuff I&#8217;m working on again.<\/p>\n<p>things to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Handle situation where your fleet retreats from battle, at the same turn that the AI invaded the retreat destination and conquered it.<\/li>\n<li>Better handling of retreating mid-battle, rather than letting your fleet insta-quit the minute you see the enemy.<\/li>\n<li>Code to scale the AI so that it attacks less at the start of the game, and puts off a homeworld invasion until much later. Also, maybe some tutorial help hints to advise you not to leave the homeworld undefended.<\/li>\n<li>Investigate why the threat level of systems seems to rise too quickly.<\/li>\n<li>Give a loyalty boost to any planet where your fleet just repelled an AI attack<\/li>\n<li>Add some sort of method for the player to see which other GSB player supplied his opposition fleet, and maybe give feedback on the enjoyment.<\/li>\n<li>Overall difficulty balancing code to prevent a cakewalk or being quickly and decisively crushed.<\/li>\n<li>Tutorial hints needed on when and how to repair ships<\/li>\n<li>Feedback at the end of turns on loyalty and threat changes<\/li>\n<li>Better UI to show that the current recruitment and cash earned from systems is being scaled by loyalty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;m apparently going to be giving a\u00a0 20 minute talk at the World Of Love Indie game conference next friday in London. Eeek. Public speaking etc. Scary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably talk about the business side of selling direct on the PC, because not many people have succesful experience of that, so it might be interesting to some people. I hate being known as &#8216;the biz guy&#8217; as much as &#8216;the piracy guy&#8217;. I&#8217;m a game designer and coder really, but there are lots of people who talk about those topics. Ho hum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a bit of a public brain-dump from the campaign stuff I&#8217;m working on again. things to do: Handle situation where your fleet retreats from battle, at the same turn that the AI invaded the retreat destination and conquered it. Better handling of retreating mid-battle, rather than letting your fleet insta-quit the minute you see<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Campaign game todo list<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/06\/19\/campaign-game-todo-list\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-gratuitous-space-battles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}