#140503 - Dark Knight ez - Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:39 pm
My latest project for the Nintendo DS, RTS4DS.
It's an RTS engine which reads out RTSes created for it from your media card.
A news post describing it in more detail, along with links to a preview movie, can be found at the following site.
http://amplituds.drunkencoders.com
Enjoy. :)
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#140533 - matriculated - Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:35 am
Wow this looks great! I know Dune2 was used for placeholder graphics but damn it would be nice to play a reverse engineered version on my DS!
#140538 - Vich - Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:03 am
This looks great indeed! It's one of those types of games that are excellent to use the stylus with.
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#140539 - Metaluna - Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:17 am
I was speechless during allt the preview video! What a great project and your RTS engine is just... wow! Great use of the stylus!
Besides, Dune 2 is a terrific choice and like matriculated I do hope you will be able to offer it with your finished program somehow.
Don't expect any answers from Westwood Studios though, they have been closed down by E.A. in 2003. What a great loss, they made such terrific games : Dune 2, Lands of Lore (I want a port of this one too ;) ), Kyrandia.... ah they don't make them like this anymore...
#140571 - Mrshlee - Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:01 pm
WOW
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#140572 - moose - Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:25 pm
Wow... just... wow...
While I understand not wanting to release the dune 2 game parts... but if you would happen to release info on which files we would need if we had a copy of the data ourselves... mmmmm.
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#140635 - Devil_Spawn - Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:44 pm
that was the best video i have seen in my ENTIRE LIFE!!!!!1
oh btw i video'd it :P
#141499 - timminater - Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:42 am
so basically all images can be used to create the game running from your engine. If that will work i will put a lot of effert in getting all the C&C gold, red alert 1 and red alert 2 sprites and sound for my own game-pack.
This project is amazing, and will bring a lot of new options to other homebrew too.
Any release date yet ?
#141508 - Dark Knight ez - Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:45 pm
| most people in here wrote: |
| wow |
Thanks. ;)
| Metaluna wrote: |
| Don't expect any answers from Westwood Studios though |
I meant the current copyright holder to the game (series), being Electronic Arts probably.
| Metaluna wrote: |
| Besides, Dune 2 is a terrific choice and like matriculated I do hope you will be able to offer it with your finished program somehow. |
We'll see... :p
| timminater wrote: |
| so basically all images can be used to create the game running from your engine. |
To a certain extent. I don't think the C&C series itself would make a good game on the DS due to the (relatively) large sized structures and units... making your view of the battlefield annoyingly small. Plus, my RTS engine needs all structures and units graphics to be stored in VRAM, which certainly can't be pulled off with Starcraft and the C&C series.
For further information you might want to read through these topics:
http://z11.invisionfree.com/amplituds/index.php?showtopic=149
http://z11.invisionfree.com/amplituds/index.php?showtopic=148
Anyway, there are a couple of RTSes now under development for the RTS4DS engine which are suited for it, so no need to be dissapointed.
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#142106 - timminater - Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:41 pm
ever thought about joining up with the CNCDS programmer, at the moment his project is abandoned i think, but he posted his complete source, so maybe u can use something of it ?
adress is: http://cncds.worldoffokkers.nl
maybe you can put it to a good use, as he has a nice engine running but without the sprites and stuff, but he has also created a sprite ripper to rip the sprites from the C&C games.
If i can help you with something, just call :P
#142128 - Dark Knight ez - Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:37 pm
I sort of suggested working together when our projects both started (around the same time). He didn't want to join forces on a single RTS project.
He chose to take a completely different approach to coding an RTS engine, using software rendering. I chose to rely on the DS 2D engine myself, using actual tiles and sprites.
Combining the two engines is not an option for me due to how different they are, and I'd consider it pretty much pointless seeing as how my own engine is far more complete than the C&C-DS engine.
However, my engine isn't really suited for something like C&C as it is. The diversity in environment and in structures probably means it won't all fit in VRAM at once, meaning it'll have to be streamed in when needed. That's not something my engine supports. Not sure if I'll ever look into adding that feature myself. We'll see. First I want to finish the engine as it is and release new RTSes alongside of it.
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#165602 - Metaluna - Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:49 pm
Any news of this amazing project?
#165629 - Dark Knight ez - Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:45 pm
As a matter of fact, there is. I guess most people overlooked the news.
The RTS engine has been improved significantly, and together with LDAsh from Violation Entertainment, used for creating the game named Ulterior Warzone.
You might want to check out Violation Entertainment's site, because it has some more information and a wallpaper of the game containing screenshots of what it's currently like. Might be worth a look.
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#165664 - Jakeohagan - Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:55 am
i hope it's released soon, i've been waiting for something like this for a long time.
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