Tag: development

The fun starts now

Oh, not for you, for me. Duh.

You get another boring version, I get to work on the awesome stuff.

So yeah, this is what’s coming up for Gamma:

  • Bots – that’s right, if you don’t have friends you will able to play alone
  • New GUI – have you heard of Unity’s new GUI? Well, it’s getting into Gamma with all it’s beauty
  • Mobile – Android, and hopefully iOS. Maybe Ubuntu Phone
  • Physics based shaders – they came with Unity 5, and look wonderful. I didn’t have time to get them into Beta, but I surely will for Gamma
  • Allow playing while hosting the server – to play on your own server right now you have to open a new instance, which isn’t exactly fun. Hopefully I’ll be able to get this working for Gamma

Sounds interesting? It is. I am so glad I got Beta 1 out so I can work on this. It’s just so cool.

I already started laying out foundations for the new AI on a local branch, but I doubt I’ll be able to get to it again until the school year ends, which should be in about two weeks.

Also, if you’ve got ANY sort of screenshots of Tunnelers somewhere, anywhere, chuck them here. It’ll be great help while making the GUI. Thanks.

And again, if you’re not already subscribed to the mailing list, please do. You would not believe how hard it is to reach all you.

 

I told you I wouldn’t leave Tunnelers alone.

Tunnelers: Unified has turned open-source

Tried to keep it quiet so the it would be a big BOOM.

OK, so with the important stuff first: have a look at the source code HERE.

People new to code, feel free to browse it with awe.
Pro’s, feel free to look at that crap jibberish some noob wrote up, and give him a lesson.

If your somewhat familiarized with Git and Github, feel free to fork it, just make a pull request when you think that you made some good change.

Reasons

  1. The school year started. That’s right. And you know what’s even worse? I’m on a new school (I don’t know how you call it in English. High school? Probably. Gymnasium to be accurate). That means: less time to code. Open-sourcing Tunnelers prevents it from dying out.
    NOTE: This does NOT mean I’m leaving Tunnelers alone!
  2. I love open-source. I would probably open-source it even if I wasn’t going to school.
  3. I like the Github interface much more than Bitbucket’s, but Github doesn’t host private repos for free.
  4. I was tired working on it alone. Now people can at least see that I’m actually doing something on it, file issues, create pull-requests, etc.

Pretty good reasons, huh? If you don’t like them, well, bad luck. There’s no way back.

Want to help? Sure! Just mail me, we’ll have a chat.

Now to the other things:

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Roadmap
Beta:

  • fix bugs
  • add mute button
  • optimize network usage and client-side prediction
  • make a little graphics (but only a little)
  • bots. AIs. Call them what you want, but you will be able to play and have fun playing alone when they will be.

Gamma:

  • Mobile ports. Android and iOS. Maybe Ubuntu phone with some tinkering.
  • fix bugs
  • maybe add some tanks

Delta:

  • public vote on what future roadmap. This is where all the fun starts. Just to be quick, you will be able to choose from: digging, new tanks, new game modes, new maps, better graphics, new GUI (see note), text and voice chat, controller support, new platforms and so on.

Note: I will completely recreate the GUI when the new GUI system arrives in Unity, and that will probably be later this year.

The gaming session

Thanks to everyone who was there. If you captured a video or something, mail me. Hope everyone had fun. I sure did. See you next time!

And a very important thing for the end:

Thanks

To everyone who made this happen:

  • Shadowcrush, for the music and coding support, and for being cool.
  • @damagefilter, or Chris, or whatever you want to call him, for the excellent Unity networking tutorials. Without it, I don’t know how I would code all of it. You can still see snaps of his code in the source.
  • and, of course, everyone else, who I am not going to name because I’m not going to risk I will forget somebody. I you ever asked when will Tunnelers be released, played it with me, criticized me or chat with me about it, you should be here. Great thanks. You make this happen. And to those thinking I should write you all down, I don’t think it would fit here.

Thanks again. You helped Tunnelers: Unified be a reality, if only a fable one.