added the setup dialog for the player towers.

With the dialog you can set the spawning mercenary type and choose the fix destination enemy tower for the selected player tower (click on the destination tower) or reset the destionation to random (click ?-castle).

To open the setup just click on a player tower or click anywhere to close it without changes.

Chosse the spawning mercenars icon to choose.

(G=gold per mercenary, Sp=speed, St=strength, H=health)

rmb to zoom

TODO:

I have to balance the game parameters again...

I will also add the spawntimer...

The enemy AI!

I will add a menu, a lot of szenarios and a splash screen & help screen...

-> http://www.gameus.de/mercenary

Some update...

The main game balance is set.

There are some treasures for the fighter to collect and of cause many opponents.

Could you please take a look at it and post suggestions so far? (timing issues, stuck fighter, confusing behavior at all)

meanwhile i add the tower menu where you can set the fighter type to spawn, the spawn frequency and the spawned fighter destination.

There will be three types of fighter (each group) with different speed, power, health, armor of cause with diferent costs.

-> http://www.gameus.de/mercenary

Sort of tower defense - more dynamic.

With the concept I tried to balance both groups to be equal in strength - this is not easy.

And as a result i recognised, that the positions of the towers are highly important for the resulting game progress depending on how the pathfinding works.

So why not make it a good thing and create different szenarios the opponents are in a better situation?

This will be the challenge of the player - to compensate this disadvantage with a strategic use of the units.

changed the artwork for upcomming enhancements (more fighter types, different buildings and an extra szenario)

the gameplay (mechanics) is also set rough: it's all about gold.

you play aginst 1..3 groups (depends on the selected playground).

each group have a limited ammount of gold from the beginning - each fighter takes gold.

You (and the AI) can set for each own building:

- the destination (building) to attack

• the fighter type to spawn (different types with it's own power, speed, armor and health, but for different costs[gold])
• the spawn frequency

If you/the AI have enough cash new fighter are spawned automatically.

The winner of a fight collects the gold the opponents gold.

Destroying a building reduces the possibilitie to spawn fighter and is good for gold.

Once a castle is down the group is out - the attacking group gets' all the losers gold.

You/the AI can collect treasures for more gold.

That's the idea so far....

You can now scroll the battlefield.

http://www.gameus.de/mercenary

mercuryus

UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!

just a weekend concept...

play: http://www.gameus.de/mercenary

watch: https://youtu.be/CAukLuZS5EA

mercuryus

nice!

Thank you for your suggestions!

I will add a help screen to introduce the framework.

Understanding a neural network is not that difficult.

There are plenty of tutorials on youtube for any interested.

my fault - i changed to a better scale method.

Realod (clear cache) to get a better workplace

ps: there might by still errors (e.g. with the backpropagandation)

to understand how a neural network is working I'm building a neural network sandbox.

The sandbox provides a tiny network with 4(+bias) Input nodes, 5 hidden nodes and 4 Output nodes.

You can draw the connections (when editing click hold a node and drag to dest node ), delete(double click) them and set their weight (when training click hold and drag hor.) and you can set backpropagading connections.

Each neuron(node) has it's own function for value, trigger, backprop.

You can train the network (to perfection) and play with it after training to test it.

With each interation you can check the resulting values and node states to see what happens while leaning.

Here you can give it a try (current [fix4all] functions: val:passthrough, trigger:binary, backp:delta*0.1)

There will also sigmoid, tanh and other functions be available soon (and you will able to change them for each/all nodes).

link: http://www.gameus.de/nn

mercuryus

Add a helper sprite beneath the water surface and disable platform on overlapping (also enable vertical sin for floating effect)...

I found this cool site and want to share..

http://www.gamedeveloperstudio.com/graphics/index.php

You can't pick an earlier frame because you always only have the current screen in the videao memory.

Two ways i would try (depending on your project)

1. save the last X frames (Snapshot canvas) - but this might take too long?!

2. save the positiones/attributes of each object into an array. To restore the X'th frame you have to set all positions/attributes of all object (can become tricky if you have recreate objects they where deleted meanwhile )

There are other methods also but this can be implemeted quick...