Mission 4 and 5 are now 95% complete. If all goes well, the final version will be released by the end of this week.
Maybe some of you would like to see more missions, but it requires a lot of work to create only one single mission. Although I use my one map editor, all non-static objects in the game have to be manually set in the mission config file. Then there are the cutscenes, artificially intelligence, waypoints, etc... There's no syntax control for the textfile. If I write something wrong and run the game, the game may either crash or there's some weird logically problem that is very difficult to track down.
Actually most of the past months I didn't programm, but instead was designing all the missions.
Before this game, I've also programmed some other games, for example a freelancer-like game or a battlefield-like game or a homeworld2-like game, but I have lost interest/motivation to develop them further. And although the programming of the freelancer-like game was 75% complete the game lacked content. None of these games I have ever released, because there was no much content to show. If want see screens of these older games, I can post some, but at the moment I have no intention to develop them any further.
After that I decided to develop this starwars game. And actually the coding went very well. I reused at least 50% of the code of my older games and added new effects, improved speed and artificially intelligence. My brother made all the models and images.
There are many WIP games in this forum, but only a few of them will ever be finished. Everybody who develops a game knows that it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up the motivation. Therefore I decided to end this project.
But of course I will program another game. It will be something I've never tried before, an action-adventure.
BTW here are two new screens:
Some features of the game that were not included in the demo:
- you can give commands to your wingmen (fly in formation, point at a target and order your wingmen to attack it^^)
- two new missions
- friendly units are now much more active and attack the enemy
- improved graphics
- fight against two star destroyers^^
- much more...