Questions tagged [turn-based]
A unit or group of units performs an action while everything else is only capable of reacting to that performed action(s). Then the next unit or group of units can act.
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How to structure a dynamic turn based system?
I'm attempting to create a turn based battle system in Unity that is made up of dynamic events. Attacks may involve a lot of movement, animation, and often player input during the attack. The current ...
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Climate/weather model for turn-based game
I am looking for a model to simulate weather patterns over long time periods on a tilemap.
The basic idea is to have 3 tile types:
mountains
land
water
Over the course of game, the climate of land ...
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How to calculate Chance of Success in a turn-based battle with chance to hit and damage roll + damage modifier?
I'm coding a choice-driven role-playing game and I want to give the player a percentage of his success chance in winning a battle before he chooses to start it. However, I have no clue how to make ...
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Implementing ability system with ability parameters
I am trying to implement an ability system in Unity for a game similar to XCOM (turn based, team consists multiple of units, grid based). Every unit have X action points per turn.
I would like to do ...
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Help with software design of a turn based combat system using SDL2
I have been working on a RPG where the player is free to wander an open world but when a monster is encountered or on keyboard command
the game switches to a turn based system. Note this is not like ...
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Record/History of moves and state of entire game after that move for a Turn based game
My first question here! :)
Im trying to conceptualize how I would go about recording the moves of my players, and also the state of my game after the calculations of that move.
For example, Final ...
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How do I change the turn from a user to the next?
I was asked by a friend to develop a small web game which should support 10 players.
Very basic game-play:
There is a piñata which has x-"healthpoints". Each player can hit the piñata when ...
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How do I make my turn based battle system scalable?
I’m currently working on a turn based battle system for my game. The game is in unity coded with c#.
The turns are based off of an initiative system determined by each characters speed. Right now I ...
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How do multiplayer turn based games handle computation
I am building a turn based multiplayer simulation game that at the end of each turn takes all of the users inputs/actions then compiles all the data and interactions returning the result of the ...
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Minimax Algorithm Scoring Mechanism
I'm basically trying to understand the chronology/sequence of the algorithm and where should I call the
scoring mechanism function that calculates the score of each move and returns an int.
For ...
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Damage-calculating formula for turn-based RPG with a twist: I have developed a formula, do you the experts think it will scale up successfully?
I’m developing a turn-based combat system for an RPG. It’s a little different to your standard RPG though. The idea being, the faster the player solves the problem they are presented with each time it'...
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Turn based game in HTML/JS/CSS - new joiner messes with state of game while animations are still running for other players
I developed a playing cards web app using HTML/JS/CSS.
Communication with the server is performed using WebSocket.
The server is developed in Java Spring.
The game proposes to join one of the many ...
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2-player online card game architecture [closed]
This is the first game I have developed. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
I want to build an online 2-player turn based card game (Shithead). I want to code it in Java as that is what I have most ...
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Engine for a Football Manager Type game (data driven, menu clicking) [closed]
A friend and I had started developing a football manager two years ago, but ultimately squashed the whole thing because we found ourselves in a mess with developing UI and saving/loading.
The basic ...
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Balance advantage of having the first turn
I'm developing a game in which two players compete for area domination. Each player can play four moves per turn, ideally conquering four tiles.
Edit: Here a little more detail on the mechanics: Each ...
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How to create a turn-based system with an unknown number of enemies?
This is my first time using Unity (and my third time creating a game in general), so I hope I can provide the needed information to solve this problem.
I want to create a turn-based system for my 2D ...
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How do I model / diagram turn-based combat?
I'm developing a turn-based combat system for an RPG, and I'd like to know if there is any kind of best practice around diagrammatically modelling something like this.
The ideal modelling paradigm ...
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How to find all possible destinations, within a certain walking distance of a unit?
I have a standard 2D grid that i use for pathfinding.
I already use A* to find the path of my units when I want to move them around.
What I need to implement now is a preview of all possible ...
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How can I make a computer opponent for my board game?
I am trying to create a game, not exactly checkers, but the level of its interactivity is on par with checkers as opposed to something more complex (I think) like chess.
Anyway, according to my ...
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In tactical combat games, why does shooting end your turn?
I was wondering about this particular game mechanic in tactical combat games, like XCOM2, where you have two actions, which may be:
move+move
reload+move
move+reload
move+attack
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Turn-based battle mechanics with balance of HP and damage [closed]
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I'm prototyping a turn-based battle system. The theme is survival in a despaired setting with conflicting interests:
2 players, attacker and defender
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Are delayed abilities bad in turn-based strategy games? [closed]
In my PvP turn-based strategy, one of the balancing mechanisms for separating stronger from weaker abilities is their "delay", which is the number of turns it will take to actually execute that ...
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Are dice-rolls for damage calculation bad design for a tactic focused game?
I'm trying to come up with a combat system for a turn-based RPG that is inspired by pen & paper RPGs, but with more importance on positioning and strategy.
I feel like in games where a good ...
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Roguelike game: detect intent of other actors by observing their moves
In grid turn-based roguelike game, how can I detect the following scenarios:
other actor is following observing actor
other actor is intentionally moving to block its path
Path blocking can happen ...
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Turn Based Game - Best approach for Server communication. TCP/IP or REST API?
I want to create a turn base multiplayer game where each player simultaneously takes his/her actions, and ends the turn. Both will see what the other player did afterwards and the next round begins.
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Design pattern for turn based strategy game in C++
I'm studying computer science at university. So far I've created several programs for school projects and homeworks in C++. They were usually smaller programs up to 1000 lines of code.
Now I want to ...
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Implementing win condition
I'm making a turn based game in java for fun, it follows a set game flow pattern contained in a loop. I realized that once a player hits a win condition the game continues playing out the rest of the ...
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Is my skill tree possible, balanced, or even a good idea? [closed]
Like most people, I have an idea for a game. I have a particular concept I want to create with a particular set of mechanics I want to implement.
What I need help with is the underlaying player ...
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How to design phases of a single turn
Battles in my game run fully automatically and return a combat log afterwards. My main game loop looks like this:
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How to make an irregular shape that displays how far a unit can move through the map?
I'm still new to programming, and I was wondering if there is a way to make an irregular shape that displays how far a unit can move through the map taking in account pathing around obstacles. For ...
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Let both clients know of complete game-state in turn-based game?
I'm writing a simple turn-based game for mobile, just to test the waters and I'm having doubts about the approach.
Each player has 5 cards on hand.
I want for both players to be able to replay ...
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Networking Board Game Design Pattern
I am currently working on a board game in Java with libgdx. It is supposed to be a multiplayer game, that you can play across multiple computers and for the sake of simplicity, I use kryonet.
Even ...
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Implementing Turn based Combat Using Node js
I am creating a browser game that allows players to fight monsters using Nodejs, Socket.io and ...
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How do I implement Pokemon-style moves?
I'm developing a Pokémon/classic Final Fantasy inspired game, in the sense that game play consists in many creatures, possessing many moves with different effects (attacking, healing, buffing, ...
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How do i make turn based combat with 10+ players work?
I am currently developing a game with a turn based combat as focus.
The games battles will need to be able to handle 1 to 20 players (Multiplayer).
Each unit (Player and AI) each has an initiative (...
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How to keep the state of all games in the server?
i have a problem implementing a turn-based game server in java.
What i want is a way or a technic that let the server keep all the games state that are created in order to the client recover at the ...
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Skill system in turn-based board-like RPG [closed]
I'm working on the implementation of a turn-based board RPG (like Descent: Journeys in the Dark) to improve my C++ skills and learn something about game-dev.
I have already done with general stuff, ...
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Turn based game - how to deal with partial world state updates?
I'm implementing a simple "turn based" game where the player sets up a bunch of "actions" on a board and "objects" move on the board and are influences by those actions. The player is no longer ...
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Using Unity and MonoBehavior for UI only?
I've made a turn-based game (think xcom) in Unity, and because I don't need real-time, asynchronous elements, or physics calculations I decided to make a pure c# Model (in the sense of Model, View, ...
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How to solve this card game turn requestes clashing issue
So I am developing a poker card game using JS +node.js + socket.io.
It is turn-based game. There will be a host and 4 other players.The flow is the players need to make a yes/no choice, then the host ...
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Is there a value in unifying animation lengths in turn based game?
It might be a small detail, but I'm wondering if there is a significant impact on the game feel between scenario where for example all characters in a game have the same attack animation length and ...
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Pokemon Artificial Intelligence [closed]
I'm working on a thesis about programming an AI combat system for Pokemon (To be implemented in Showdown!). However, I would like to include historical information about the existing implementations ...
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Time per turn in a .NET turn-based game?
I am developing the server for a browser game, it uses an ASP.NET API for authentication, login and character creation and a websocket for the rest of the game (Microsoft.Web.WebSockets).
While on ...
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Turn Based AI Algorithm (Small Board, Two Steps)
This is my Game-Board:
-> The Red Balls are the AI-Controlled Actors.
-> The Blue Balls are the Player-Controlled Actors.
-> The Yellow Cells are the locations, from which the Red Balls can attack.
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Turn-based browser game
I want to try to build a multiplayer turn-based browser game.
What technologies do you recommend me to use for server side considering I plan to host it on a shared host? Would PHP be fast enough?
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What is the design rationale behind melee retaliations in turn-based games?
I've seen quite a lot of turn-based games in which melee attacks on another unit cause the attacked units to also damage the attacking unit, while ranged attacks do not suffer from this "retaliation" ...
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AI: Turn-Based Movement with 2 actions per Unit
I am currently building a turnbased tactics game.
The Board is a small (about 4*6) tiled grid.
The AI plans all moves of its units, each unit can
move 2 times
move and attack
or attack
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How to handle global Data within a state machine setup? (C#)
I am currently building a turn-based framework (Unity,C#)
I was tired of my former tight-coupled systems and opted for a state machine this time, basically all components subscribe to the state-Enter ...
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How can I imbue an ability system with information about how abilities interact and can be targetted?
I am making a turn based game where player chooses a team of heroes with specific abilities for each of them. (ex. stun one enemy, deal 20 damage to all enemies, heal 10 HP to one ally,...)
The design ...
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Turn-based multiplayer animate moves from last turn
I'm trying to make a 2-player turn-based strategy game, using the Google Play Games APIs
According to the documentation,
As a match progresses, the current player can modify and store the game ...
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