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Shadowed Lightning
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this may poddibly be a stupid question, but why doesnt anybody ever create top-down strategy games? like age of empires, or starcraft, or warcraft, not as complex, but something like them, why dont i ever see any of those, just fps and mmorpg and regular rpg...

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Well, it's a complicated game to make. If you mean RTS, I have seen quite a few.

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I'm making one!

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Shadowed Lightning
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Whats RTS?

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Real Time Startegy


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Theres an RTS in the showcase. Its called DarkKonflict.

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Posted: 1st Jan 2005 20:35 Edited at: 1st Jan 2005 20:36
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And there's that Firewall game by Bolt.
http://www.freewebs.com/boltsoftware/

Edit: See, I could even remember his site from the top of my head.


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Ali M Oldboy
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Well, I don't know about that one

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Indeed, firewall is made in DBC I believe.

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@Ali M
Quote: ""Live fast, die young!" - Laslo (GTA Vice City)"

Laslow is spelt Lazlow!

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lolz, ok, thanks one last question, what exactly is real time in games

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well you dont have to wait for your turn. When your building your tanks and organising your army etc. your enemy is doing stuff at the same time.

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ah, i see, but still, would it really be that hard to make one like that, just a simple one? like, one type of resource, a couple units, a couple buildings? the hardest part would be enemy AI wouldnt it?

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To me yes, the hardest part will be enemy AI, I am almost done with all the player stuff, soon after I get all the resources nailed down, and all the unit types, I will create some form of AI, but I have no idea how at the moment.

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well, my best wishes to you, no offense to anyone but being creative and creating a top down RTS game sure beats the hell out of all the other games i see like arcade game remakes and copies of different games basically. they good for practice, but whats the point if its been made before, good luck, i want to make a top down rts game, but im not that good yet...

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Thats good, but little games such as retro remakes, arcade style games, and other loads of games like that is a good way to practice learning DB before you actually decide to make a huge game like that.

If you do make an RTS game, I would be very interested to hear your progress because I love rts games .

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