Ok, after a lot of feedbacks, I decided to go with this tiles to show movement range, mostly because they look tidy, good and also unique enough.

Cleaner! Tidier! That is the Green Spotlights 1000. Get yours today!

Also finish my mockup for the Mission UI.

It supposed to keep track of the progress of the mission and how many battles you have fought and how many still remains in that particular mission.

I haven't finish the second battlefield layout so I am using the first one as placeholder in lieu of the second one temporarily.

After some thoughts, I decided to cut out some planned extra features from it as it is just clutter/ busywork and does not add to the gameplay in a good sense.

In another dimension, Andrew is the one who going to bust Harry's favorite bar

Will now code this portion of the game soon.

Finished the movement range tiles and animation.

Also linked them up into the game and setup Rexrainbow SLG Movement plugin with appropriate cost and filter custom events to call them up when necessary.

Look, Roger, there are green lights projecting over where I can go! Technology!

What's your opinions of the movement tiles?

I try to be a bit unique while trying to make sure it still convene the range of the characters' movement and also looking good.

Does it work?

FYI, before I continue on to create the battlefield UI, I need to finish the Mission UI and the battle preparation UI firstly.

Totally forgot about the mission UI where the players learn a bit about the turf and its denizens that they are about to fight.

There are more details about the Mission UI and I will explain those when I finish some of its functions and assets.

Progress report for the past week!

For the past weekend, I replay Tactics Ogre and have found several key gameplay issues that irked me. This, of course, helps to improve my gameplay design for this game to ensure those issues, such as the overpowerness of the archer class do not happen.

Also, I have finished the stat system for the game.

I have also finished the level up algorithm, the damage calculation for the game, the skills and abilities system.

All of them are done in excel for easier updating and maintenance since there is a Rexrainbow csv plugin that helps to transfer excel tables in .csv format into datatable format quickly and easily.

All there is left is to create the class variables for the characters in the battlefield and it's most of the engine work is pretty much done, at least for the planned demo.

So basically no visual progress..... Sorry for that.

In exchange, let me tell you how I designed the classes (called stereotypes in-game).

If you are familiar with the MMORPG scene or with tabletop gaming, you know in a good party, there would be a tank, a glass cannon, a healer/buffer and a controller. Those are called archetypes and it help the player/group to determine how to better use a specific class in the battle or how to redesign his tactical plan to suit the available classes or lack of, in his current party.

For my game, there are several archetypes, each classes usually have a huge part in one while dipping in another one or several. Here are them as they currently are in my spreadsheet:

Tank

Description: Basically stereotypes with high defenses/hp. Most of them have unique mechanics to keep enemies attention to them despite their plans. An example would be Brutes project Intimidating Aura that turn all surrounding tiles around them into difficult terrain which cost more to move into. The size of this aura can be enlarged via appropriate skills.

Stereotype (Major): Brute, Luchador, Firebrand

Stereotype (Minor): Drunk

Glass Cannon

Description: Weaklings with usually low HP/Defenses but possess strong attack abilities. Many have extra mechanics to improve their damage capabilities even further provided appropriate situation. Punks can dealt extra damage to an enemy if the enemy have a prior negative condition on him regardless of how it got there. As usual, this mechanic can be enhanced via skills.

Stereotype (Major): Punk, Provocateur, Smarty Pant, Drunk, Wiseguy

Stereotype (Minor): Brute

Healer

Description: Capable of healing hp damage and removing status effects. They have a unique individual mechanics to improve their healing abilities. Social activist got a point blank level-dependent boost to all their healing abilities.

Stereotype (Major): Social Activist, Dealer

Stereotype (Minor): Rapper, Firebrand, GRO (Guest Relations Officer), Merchant, Anyone with an Item Usage skill

Buffer

Description: Capable of giving positive status effects to friendlies. Their mechanics is designed to help out their mates. The presence of a rapper in the party give "Encouraged" effect to any friendlies who have just took down an enemy for a turn. Needless to said, there are skills to improve on that mechanic.

Stereotype (Major): Rapper, GRO, Merchant

Stereotype (Minor): Provocateur, Firebrand, Social Activist, Dealer, Anyone with an Item Usage skill

Debuffer

Description: Capable of giving negative status effects to enemies. Also push and pull enemies into positions that are always bad for them. There are certain skills that improve debuffing abilities but no mechanics of yet.

Stereotype (Major): Rapper, GRO, Merchant

Stereotype (Minor): Luchador, Brute, Drunk, Smarty Pants, Provocateur, Wiseguy, Dealer, Anyone with an Item Usage skill

And that pretty much what I planned for now.

Only six of these classes will be available in the demo.

Five of those will be available in the player's gang for the demo.

Also, TO-inspired skills points are out for this game as of now. Skills will be obtained through leveling and are given out on the start and at every third level. Also all passive small bonuses skills are out. There are also no must-have skills which is also known in the tabletop gaming as "feat tax".

This is to stop players to only use their battle-hardened skill points heavy characters and make others, especially new characters, also viable for battle usage.

Don't worry, there will be a hideout feature that can change unwanted skills   , provided the character is assigned there until the next mission is over.

I am a tactics gamer first and foremost, after all  

TL,DR : Engine progress for the past week. No visuals, sorry.

This looks great!! Would love if you could point me to some Construct 2 Isometric tutorial or material. Really interested to learn how to create an isometric level in C2.

Thanks!

I am sorry. I learned most of the isometric stuff I implemented through trial and error. Apparently, there's no isometric guide out there, excepting Kyatric isometric guide thread.

Good luck on your effort!

For me, it's just genuine interest of why there's a dearth of good and solid Tactical Role-Playing Game in the market recently.

One can only play Xcom: EU and its expansion so many times before boredom started to set.

Other indie tactical games are very light on the tactical side, very simple or very buggy with bad implementations and broken exploitable rulesets.

So, instead of constantly complaining about it, I try to make a change about it by creating my own TRPG, one that me and like-minded people would have fun playing for both the gameplay and the story itself.

Hence all my previous attempts until my recent one, Gangster Tactics.

I won't say that financial gain is not considered by me since that will be false but when I concentrate in this genre, I pretty much already understand that tactics RPG have low mainstream appeal due to people consider it time consuming and hard. The profits won't be good and I prepared for that.

Even so, I am still driven to at least create a game in the genre that I like the most.

So, in short, I like tactics RPG and therefore is creating one.

Some progress from the past few days.

Finish creating the female model to represent the females of Casa City.

Can't have the game turn into a sausage party, can't we ?

The image above is

totally not before and after Hanks have a sexual change operations. And those lumps are totally not oranges.

Finish creating the first animation in the game, the walking animation.

This take me a lot of time to get it done and look good in a few frames but I think I succeed in it. Have a look and judge for yourself.

Not enough ass-shaking but hey this is fighting game, not a modeling one.

I have also finished the chess placement functions for the game, allowing me to place the sprites I have created into the game and onto a battlefield.

Roger, my man. Why in the world do we keep walking in the same spot over and over again?

All in all, that's quite some progress but I still have a lot to do.

Some of my immediate future tasks to complete:

• Finish the stats system and link it to the characters in the battlefield
• Create the battlefield UI so everything's description can be read ala Tactics Ogre style.
• Port over my previous AIs to this game so the enemies can fight back.

I just do one at a time.

For game jams, I stopped development on my main one until the game jam is completed.

Though I heard some people do two projects simultaneously to keep their motivation up.

I don't know how that works, but each to his own.

Alright, progress report time.

Finish designing my isometric tiling and other associated functions to work together.

Also prepared some notes on importance of origin points in isometric projections.

Most of my dev time today is to design a isometric battlefield template so i can easily dump tiles from Photoshop to Rexrainbow's Board's arrays very quickly.

This allow me to design the battlefield in Photoshop instead of in Construct 2 layout, which is less convenient.

The picture shown is a in-game view of my tutorial battlefield. There are no characters yet. Which will be remedied soon enough.

Aesthetically and technically It looks great, but a game depicting rape probably isn't appropriate for the forums.

Don't worry. It's just a joke and as a technical presentation to showcase the dialog features in the game.

The real game just contain a lot of pure and honest violence, that's all

Finish Character Creation.

While I still unsure how the stats bonus going to affect difficulty (i want to give the pc a boost, not turn him/her/it into a demigod of rage.) , I can adjust it later if the values are too much.

A bit tamer than my last game character creation.

No gif this time though, because I like to keep most of questions hidden as a pleasant surprise.

Now, focusing on porting over my stats engine to this game and configuring it to fit.

Just finish the dialog features for my game.

With this done, I can fully concentrate on my Character Creation using a variant of this feature.

Also here's a gif to show progress.

Trigger Warning: Contain Rape.

Ignore the slight jam after the choices. I already fixed those and are just too lazy to make another gif. I also have finish inputting all the required sprite fonts for my game.

Close this request because the function is already available via Browser object. I am just too blind and need more sleep.