I want to show to everybody what I was coding on my spare time (rainy days that I wasn't riding) on my summer vacations on the far far south of America.

I started a sort-of-RTS game, where you control a small squad of soldiers against
bad dudes... there is a lot to do yet, but at least you can almost play.

I inspired on games like Space Hulk, Crusader, Syndicate, Cannon Fodder, Warcraft, Rambo III, and others, so is a personal mix of what I liked from those games.

So well, this first demo is mainly to get opinions from alpha testers (you!) and go in the right direction with the project.

Here are some screenshoots
http://xs70.xs.to/pics/06094/screen1.jpg

http://xs70.xs.to/pics/06094/screen2.jpg

The file has the full source code (you have to compile it yourself, I tested it with DJGPP, Mingwin and GCC under Linux, just type 'make' on the project dir and should work fine)

The file --> http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=37572
A mirror : http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=7586294

Note: The md5sum for the file must be 981a2402adf538e1bb7b27d0e3470225

The instructions to play the demo.

In short: (PLEASE READ) Select with left click, then open menu with right click. To drag select: hold ctrl + left click To multi select : hold shift + left click In this demo only : ENTER will shoot some LAME shoots with the last selected troop, K will kill it, and F1 will generate a new random army

Note that there is a lot that is not finished, for example, I still don't finish the weapons, and the map system is on design phase, but you can command your troops around, and the computer has a test AI that moves the enemies around

<b>*** Please, test it ; I hope to read feedback from it, to improve it **

p.s
Well, I really don't know the genre of the game that I'm doing, is it a RTS or not?
Advice on the game genre? Thanks

Thanks !!

I stole the idea from Warcraft 1, but we was discussing on IRC a way to make it work in a more modern fashion.

I did this way so you actually have to think what to do, I never liked that way of clicking of new games, because it becomes a mindless just click, click, click[...] game.
Anyways, I may add a mode for that, just to satisfy people.

Also because I intentionally let the user choose to attack, i.e a empty spot, just to provide "covering fire" or such.

Well, the idea is to make a more action oriented game, where you enter right into the action with a small pack of men, heavy armed, more Space Hulk / Cannon Fodder style.

You don't harvest resources, you don't train units, etc, you just command the troops into action (that's the way I like it).

Of course, there is no such thing as magic, monsters or bs, just real men, and real bullets flying around the place.

You will probably fight in indoors close quarters, inside buildings, etc and maybe some outdoors too.

Is more a game of commanding a small squad than a real RTS.

Thanks!!

Any more feedback appreciated

I played this and it looked promising. I'd say it's definately of RTS genre, but the user interface is definately going to need some work.

Well, I just finished patching the interface, and now, it has a default action.

When you click a empty space, if you have someone selected, he will walk there.
If you click a enemy, they will attack him.

Sounds good ?

The pita is, is a little slower algorithm, because I must check what you clicked a few times, this is because of the OO design that I took, where the interface knows almost nothing about your army, it just sends the commands to the army in question.

Now, I will work on adding weapons, more animations, and a real map (currently is using just a lame floor texture for decoration).

I must think also on lights, explosions, etc

mmm... grenades... yup, it needs grenades