Hello!
Recently I used Adventure Creator to make one of my video games. I really really liked it and was wondering if anyone would recommend an asset that can help me make a turn based strategy game like X-Com or Shadowrun]? I already did a search and there are a lot of options. Not quite sure what i should get.
Do you guys have any recommendations? I wanted to get everyone’s feedback before I pay for anything.
I don’t think anything currently on the store gets you as close to completion of a TBS as Adventure Creator gets you to a point & click adventure. AC is a bit of an anomaly with all the neat stuff it supports.
I dunno how adaptable the solutions on the store are. You’ll have to try the demos for the different assets and see which one seems best for you. There’s no guarantee they all have drop-in asset replacement to start shaping your unique game, or that the AI is worth a damn. A brief look at the store made it look like few have actual AI for a TBS.
The DIY option:
If you’re going for mainly 2D isometric UFO (O.G. XCOM) style you could either use 2D Toolkit or SpriteTile and an A* algorithm as your starting point. Handling turns isn’t all that complicated - the core of the game is just a bunch of state machines (whose turn it is, phases in the turn, movement modes, menus/different game panels/main map). The rest is representation, like showing movable destinations (handled via A* or other path-finding), animating movement and attacks, enemy AI.
I’ve been looking at Turn Based Strategy Framework since it seems pretty customization. Only thing that it doesn’t seem to be able to do is ranged attacks which I can probably contact the creator about.
Sadly I am doing a 3d game so a 2d wouldn’t work for me.
Just glancing over the documentation, screenshots, and reviews shows that the framework supports 3D.