Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson)

• grue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think the reason nobody has is Starcraft is so much more limited of an RTS design it feels weird to start from a Total Annihilation inspired rts game engine and take a whole bunch away (shift clicking, build cues, actually 3d trajectories of cannons, complex unit interactions rather than simplistic rock-paper-scissors relationships, actually flying aircraft, organic terrain variation instead of simplistic stepped levels…the list goes on and on)

  Exactly. Those “limitations” (I would use a less biased word, BTW) make it a different game. Not necessarily worse or even more simplistic, but definitely different, kinda like how Chess and Go are different even though they’re broadly in a similar genre.

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My point is the Recoil and Spring Engine already exist and could easily have features removed and simplified with modding to create a Starcraft-like or Warcraft-like.

    Or… what about going with 0 A.D.'s engine?

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, if the game engine is the issue you’re worried about, people had already been working on Free Software WarCraft/StarCraft clones almost a decade before the Spring Engine existed. stratagus.com/stargus.html

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      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah my point is why do people keep insisting st failing at reinventing the wheel as an indie company here?

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